When communities come together as a region to work toward a common goal, they can achieve great things.
For a shining example, you don’t need to look any further than the diverse counties of Northw…
Category: opinion
Florida Keys — would you have evacuated?
Multitudes of people are suffering through the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Florida. The Keys and the Caribbean Islands are devastated. Other parts of Florida are suffering from damage and no elect…
A proposal for John King Road
Dear editor,
On Sept. 5, Jimmy Wrye submitted an opinion about the need for a traffic sensor on the left-hand turn lane onto John King Road from Highway 85. I take that route home every day, and I’…
Powerball — government is the real winner
A Massachusetts woman won the second largest Powerball payout in history, $758 million. She elected to receive a lump-sum payment of $480 million.
Lottery jackpots seem like staggering amounts of m…
Fast food chain problem
Dear editor,
I was recently saddened when I heard about the sudden interest in possible influx of fast food restaurants in a big way arriving to Crestview.
We've got just about every fast food ch…
Left turn onto John King Road
Dear editor,
Southbound traffic on Ferdon Boulevard gets bogged down many times when vehicles are turning left onto John King Road because the left-turn green arrow doesn't stay on long enough to a…
LETTER: Guiness record for fast food chains
Dear editor,
After reading the Saturday Crestview Bulletin dated Aug. 26, 2017, I find it upsetting to read that the Crestview CRA hired a firm named Retail Strategies that concluded a pet store an…
Stop projecting racism — Southerners have moved on
ESPN, long the MSNBC of sports, made a bizarre executive decision to remove Asian-American football announcer Robert Lee from the William and Mary vs. Virginia game.
It looked like a headline from …
We will pull together for Houston, neighboring towns
Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast are devastated. Never has an area been so blasted by so much rainfall in such a short amount of time.
Houston has received more rainfall than any other city across …
Afghanistan – The End Is Not In Sight
October will mark the 16th year since President George W. Bush announced the first strikes against Afghanistan. In June 2010 we surpassed Vietnam as the longest conflict in U.S. history.
Presid…