Category: letters

Dear editor,
So now the proof is in the pudding. It all comes to light now, and has for many years, why Crestview is still living in the covered wagon days.
After reading the Crestview Bulletin i…

Editor’s Note: Johnny C. Alexander wrote this as an open letter to Crestview City Councilman-elect Joe Blocker.
Mr. Blocker,
I want to congratulate you on retaining your seat on the Crestview Cit…

Dear editor,
It looks like Guy Thompson is gearing up an attempt to retake his throne at city hall, and his main campaign plank is ramming a four-lane through downtown Milton. 
There is little ne…

Dear editor,
On Jan. 16, Floridians will once again observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honoring the man who advanced and steered a civil rights movement that pushed America toward equality and…

I like American football, be it Pee Wee, middle school, high school, college or pro. But over the years, it seems like there are more and more college bowl games.
With that, I checked to see just h…

Dear editor,
I saw where Barack Obama again criticized and blamed Fox News for its news coverage costing Democrats the election.
He spoke as if Fox News created the people who voted for the presi…

In 1992, I was a young political science student who had just run his first campaign with tragic results. We had won the primary but just missed avoiding a runoff.

During that runoff, the other ca…

Dear editor,
Last Friday, Nov. 18, between 9:30 and 10 a.m. at the Garden Park, I had my faith in humanity restored.
I and four other ladies from the Dogwood Garden Club were working in the flowe…

Dear editor,
Almost half of all people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias are in hospice care toward the end of their life.
Even with the increasing number of Americans contracting the disease …

Dear editor,
I was planning to write a story of a knight in shining armor riding in to save the kingdom, and of a damsel with tears of joy at the kingdom's salvation from collapse.
However, as I'…