PUBLISHER'S COLUMN

Feb 03, 2009

Well, here we go again. You would have thought the Daytona Beach News-Journal would have learned its lesson Jan. 23 when it was dead last among the Central Florida daily news providers to report…

Feb 01, 2009

Welcome to the greatest holiday in America today: Super Bowl Sunday. Go Steelers! Go Cardinals! So who is going to win the game? Here's a hint: These aren't your Daddy's Pittsburgh Steelers. The…

Jan 27, 2009

The New Smyrna Beach City Commission is expected to hear from two distinct groups tonight regarding a proposed 2 percent wage increase for the city's police officers: The cops themselves and…

Jan 27, 2009

Jimmie Humphrey, 74, and former owner of Sea Pines Cemetery, challenged me to say something good about Democrats. Knowing how conservative I am, he figured this would be an impossible task. To…

Jan 23, 2009

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. TV crews are stationed in…

Jan 22, 2009

I posted this story in our Local News Now section, but I think it is important to note it here as well so viewers can spot it more easily:

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Two 18-year-old girls were…

Jan 19, 2009

The Rev. Don Bremer of the First United Methodist Church of New Smyrna Beach summed up the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama this way Sunday: "In a free land, in a Democracy,…

Jan 19, 2009

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would no doubt have been thrilled to see the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

King was an outstanding leader whose loss was a tragedy not only for his…

Jan 15, 2009

After watching the liberals trash President Bush for virtually everything that happened during his presidency it is hard to resist trying to put his presidency into better perspective.

I…

Jan 10, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama will invoke God when he takes the oath of office January 20, despite a lawsuit filed by atheist and non-religious groups, according to an attorney for Chief…

Jan 10, 2009

Listening to Barack Obama’s speech Thursday gave little indication that he has any idea what the nations economic problems are or any plan that would keep us from a long, slow and painful recovery…

Jan 08, 2009

I have lived my life as an economic conservative, believing in free markets, small government and personal freedom from the time I was a teenager. I'm not about to change now.

Some noted…