Florida Republican Senate leaders have endorsed House Appropriations Chairman Jay Trumbull, R-Panama City, to succeed Sen. George Gainer, who announced he will not seek re-election.
LETTER: Don t take power from locals
Don t take power from locals
After suffering thru a Pandemic this past year, our Legislature spent the bulk of its time clawing back local control to benefit lobbyists and developers.
Especially here in Walton County, where we have been trying as residents to get a handle on rampant overdevelopment that clear cuts our forests leading to worsening pollution of the Choctawhatchee Bay, the bills that amount to givebacks to developers will be especially problematic and is a power grab from our locally elected officials.
Dr. Carolynn Zonia, Santa Rosa Beach
Armenian actions may create humanitarian issues
The Confederate battle flag had flown at the Walton courthouse memorial from 1964 until 2015, when the then-sitting commission voted to abandon it.
Peter Horn III, owner of custom homebuilding company Artisan of Seagrove and a Walton County native, will make his request to remove the flag and monument at Tuesday s commission meeting, set for 4 p.m. in the commission meeting room in DeFuniak Springs.
Horn s presentation will come a little more than six months after commissioners voted 3-2 to keep the flag flying. Six months is the minimum time that certain issues must be put aside before being reintroduced to the commission.