My wife and I just returned from the Austin, Texas area for a Memorial Day visit with friends, and I literally got a sick, depressed feeling when I started to enter Crestview.
Category: editorials
GUEST COLUMN: Funding infrastructure requires creative ideas
Raising the gas tax requires a super-majority; four votes out of five.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Amid Krystal stalemate, jobs are uncertain
Crestview residents have responded to the City Council’s inaction following a fast food restaurant developer’s request for tax relief.
EDITOR'S DESK: Life-threatening matter raises need for community
Community requires fighting the bystander effect, avoiding ignorance, and going with your gut to help others.
In this case, doing those things saved a life.
Community’s enemy is misunderstanding, wil…
EDITOR'S DESK: County should ignore urge to raise gas tax
Raising the gas tax may provide revenue for necessary public improvements, but at what cost to private residents? Roaming businesses including pest control workers and plumbers may hike rates to cove…
GUEST COLUMNIST: Join Crestview's green revolution
North Okaloosa County is getting greener every day — not just because spring has arrived and nature is adding to the scene, but because local people are promoting the "green revolution."
EDITOR'S DESK: Crestview can look to other cities' garage sale laws
A prudent government should provide code enforcement officials who can occasionally monitor the concern on weekends, City Councilwoman Robyn Helt has said.
However, most of our readers have expressed…
No Crestview prom DUIs good for students and economy
Crestview High School students assembling in the football stadium’s bleachers on Friday may not have anticipated the rude awakening they would receive during a mock DUI crash.
EDITOR'S DESK: Deconstructing Krystal’s Crestview purpose
Monday, the Crestview City Council approved plans for a Krystal restaurant on South Ferdon Boulevard.
GUEST COLUMNIST: Tax cuts, education investments effective
Four years before I took office, Florida lost more than 825,000 jobs, unemployment more than tripled from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent, and state debt increased by $5.2 billion.