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Navy Street Extension Saga seems to be heating up Editor, The Hancock City Manager at one time was heard to say something to the effect of excusing herself from decision making on the Navy Street extension issue. However even now, the Mayor, Hancock City Council and DDA Members seemed to have all lost their administrative independence and ability to think, reason and act as individuals, and are ruling based upon the will of the Hancock City Manager. That mind set obviously took a change in direction beginning at the April 15th 2026 City Council meeting. The issue of spending DDA ...

Cal Thomas

Columns

"We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can't do if we do it together."- President Joe Biden I am not in the habit of favorably quoting the former president, but he was right when he said this. Why, then, are we still beholden to Iran and Saudi Arabia for so much of our ...

The Raffel Ticket

Columns

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." The Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner wrote those words in 1951. Yet, they could be a commentary on the political scene 75 years later. No issue matters more to President Donald Trump than the results of the 2020 election. Despite ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

You couldn't find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police and abolish ICE, topping it all off with a call to end Thanksgiving. "Saturday Night Live" couldn't have made her up. Hong lost the ...

Armstrong Williams

Columns

There is a question increasingly worth asking: Why do some of America's most privileged young people seem to have become among its harshest critics, not merely challenging policies but speaking as though America itself is fundamentally corrupt, oppressive or unworthy of their loyalty? This ...

Rachel Marsden

Columns

PARIS — Ever wonder how the President of the United States actually spends his time? You'd think that it would be a critically important issue, given how much work there is to get done. The President's own public itinerary reveals that he spends much of his time just fluffing himself up. ...