One of my greatest joys are my sweet pets. I adore my collie and cats. They provide companionship, comfort, unconditional love and affection.
Kittens, puppies, birds, bunnies, and so on are so ador…
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Third week of games includes Clemson, Kentucky
Week three is over, and Hurricane Florence helped to wash away a few Atlantic Coast Conference teams' hopes for the ACC Title Championship with canceled games they cannot make up.
The Southeastern …
Silicon Valley Oligarchs Break Public Trust with Leftist Agendas
Let me say up front: I’m a free-market libertarian, and I never advocate for more regulation — mainly because it doesn’t work and it is done by government (which I trust only one-tenth as much as I t…
Voting is a privilege
Florida's primary election was Aug. 28.
In Okaloosa County there are 133,025 people registered to vote. According to statistics from the Okaloosa Supervisor of Elections website, https://enr.electi…
Learning through repetition
It's always helpful to learn lessons from hurricanes that might be useful to those of us who are threatened by them six months of every year.Unfortunately, some of the lessons many will learn the har…
Just do it, boycott Nike
Fall is usually a great time of year. We stop fighting each other over politics and race, and go back to not liking each other because of what football team we support. Oh, wait — now the NFL has co…
College football, week two predictions – Gators up, Cowboys down
The first week of college football gave us the peek we have all been waiting for with newly placed coaches, new key players, and some amazing gridiron action. Week one showed us who was ready for the…
Trump is getting things done
Having written this column for 16 years, I find that there has never been a time when the news and actions in Washington moved so fast. Trump is getting things done. Half the country says Trump is cr…
By any name, it’s still privilege
During a recent newsroom discussion here at the Canton (Ohio) Repository about the Urban Meyer fiasco, our local news editor, Dave Sereno, remarked, "I don’t wanna know what you guys are doing."
It…
Space exploration may increase local jobs
With the announcement of a sixth military branch called the Space Force, one wonders where this new branch will be headquartered and where the numerous daily operations will be located.
Will headqu…