Without clear and compelling reasons, no one wants to reopen an old wound — especially one so deep, painful and shameful.
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On this page, you’ll see some endorsements for candidates in the Tuesday, Aug. 18, primary election.
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When we were kids, we sometimes did things we hoped our parents would not discover. We normally did it while they were away, or in the playhouse. At least we shut our bedroom doors.
It’s interesting that those folks who are ordinarily so fond of preaching freedom from governmental overreach are suddenly chanting — in the case of our public schools — “big government’s way or the highway.”
We wish to share our thoughts regarding the upcoming Aug. 18 primary election.
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Looks like they will need fresh loads of money and manure. The last time the County tried to sell a sales-tax increase, the mail-in referendum went down in flames. I commend the paving companies for their generous campaign contributions, however.
Will this Fourth of July be our last as a relatively free nation?
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I write in support of Cresswind DeLand.
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How are the elderly coping in the current pandemic? How about someone who’s 100 years old?
Mark Twain famously observed that, first, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then, he made school boards.
Twenty years ago, a grassroots movement in Volusia County to preserve environmentally sensitive lands and improve and expand ecological, cultural, historical and outdoor recreational facilities led to the birth of the ECHO and Volusia Forever programs.
I would like to take this opportunity to publicly share my condolences for the family of George Floyd.
This time, government worked as it should
While a sign of progress, building a new sewer line isn’t often cause for major celebration.
Even as we learn new ways to live and operate an organization safely amid economic and social upheaval from the COVID-19 virus, we must acknowledge legacies of inequality and violence in our West Volusia communities. As we confront them, the West Volusia Historical Society must look to the p…
‘Battle Hymn for Christ’s Dream’
“We cannot miss the moment and cannot look a system in the face and simply call for a tranquilizing drug of gradualism. America was and is a bold experiment. But she will not be OK on her own,” said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It has not been long since I wrote about the Avalon Park Daytona plan.
Racial justice and police accountability, now!
Florida’s broken unemployment system
My coming of age was guided rather delightfully by the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I learned a lot from their thoughtful lyrics that I would not have learned from my parents, and I honed my political and pacifistic tendencies in their harmonies.
Voting by mail is good for our health, our democracy, and our soul.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
The following article was written by DeLand City Commissioner Jessica Davis on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, about her bout with COVID-19 and her continued struggle with the new coronavirus disease.
“White Americans have never apologized for slavery; thus black Americans have never forgiven them for it,” Judge Hubert Grimes said at a lynching memorial ceremony May 23.
An enlightened group of local people began the Memorial Day weekend with a ceremony in honor and remembrance of a Volusia County resident, at his gravesite.
Before my grandfather passed, his proudest moment was witnessing our nation’s first black president.
The horrific death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked a national reckoning over racism and police brutality.
Memorial Day weekend is a fitting setting to remember Lee Snell, a World War I Army veteran, who, in 1939, was the victim of racial terror by lynching in Daytona Beach.
