With some of the last vestiges of cronyism and good-old boy politics gone in Clay County, it is now time for the naysayers to drop their protests and move forward.

   Roy Lyons and Karen Lake need to put away their legal tactics and join the majority to brace the “changes we can believe in” mantra of the recent presidential election. Read the rest of this entry »

      I am now in the third week of my status as a “retired” newspaper editor. I put retired in quote marks because I don’t want anyone (especially, the unemployment office) to get the idea that I am not interested in future job opportunities, because I am.

   I just know that it is going to be difficult for me to find a position with the current state of the economy, my age and my occupation. There just are not that many demands for older weekly newspaper editors in Clay County. Or Northeast Florida for that matter.

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