It's still cold out here this morning, but the worst is behind us, so says the National Weather Service in Melbourne, with highs expected to reach 61 degrees. Tonight will drop to 48 and then it's…
PUBLISHER'S COLUMN
Feb 05, 2009
When I was a cops and courts reporter at the Daytona Beach News-Journal from 1996 to 2004, I covered many breaking stories that required me to stay on top of the news. I did this primarily by…
Feb 05, 2009
I’m sure that longtime successful and hardworking businesswoman Suzanne Kosmas of New Smyrna Beach must be having second thoughts about her new role as “Santa Claus” for her congressional district…
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
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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…