Thanks to Wednesday’s editorial, I finally got the courage to express my opinions about the city commissioners’ focus on demolishing, building and rebuilding structures in the Brunswick area on the shoulders of taxpayers who are already over-burdened with a 7 percent tax on almost everything…

I see that Secretary of State Brian Kemp held a meet and greet this week in Brunswick.

Thanks go to Terry Dickson’s report on the “Hunger for Nuclear Disarmament,” fast with details about people holding signs that call for nuclear disarmament in the stifling heat. (Group Protests Nuclear Weapons, June 21, 2018). The peace activists point to a historic step toward nuclear disar…

In response to the article written by Taylor Cooper, printed in the June 16-17 Brunswick News, headlined “Vacation rental regulation back on the table.”

Sea-level rise, caused by climate change, is on a crisis course for many U.S. coastal communities. New research finds that as many as 311,000 homes on the East Coast and Gulf face being frequently flooded within the next 30 years.

At the IPC meeting on Tuesday night, two of the previously staff approved and technically compliant preliminary plats were pulled from the agenda because they were not, in fact complete nor were they in compliance with the county ordinances.

You’re our country’s greatest president (in your mind) and your adoring, bias, liberal news media and Hollywood howl the mantra 24/7. Your vast Washington Swamp has been purged of all dissenting voices and subserviently programmed to do your every biddings. Fairness is a ghost from the past,…

It has been reported recently that the U.S. has a $500 billion trade deficit with the rest of the world. President Trump is calling out some of these counties about the deficit. It appears many of these countries want to sell us stuff but it can be very difficult to sell them products becaus…

Editor’s note: The following letter is written as a rebuttal to a letter and therefore is not subject to the two-week policy. This will be the only rebuttal allowed.

In the 13 years I’ve lived in Brunswick I haven’t found a topic as confounding as the conference center debate. Except when the downtown area was the proposed site of the jail, have I seen such a remarkable display of buffoonery as the plan for the Brunswick conference center. It doesn’t mat…

Developers are destroyers. I do not know why we did not take that away from the 1980s when suburban development left us with instant slums and urban redevelopment resulted in acres of vacant land.

I had the great privilege to have been in a U.S. Air Force exchange program in the 1950’s that allowed for flight training in Canada. I will always endear that time spent there and the people I met. It is for that reason I cringe regarding the recent events having taken place where the peopl…

Those who would regale liberals and others who refer to our government as a republic and not a democracy are, at best, playing antics with semantics. Now if this gives these same people a sense of superiority in political science and government, bless their hearts.

Brunswick’s comprehensive effort to improve safety for pedestrians is underway, as the city continues to pursue positive change. Although it has made significant progress throughout the last year and seems to be moving in the right direction, there are many other opportunities to make the ci…

Replying to Patrick Betchik’s letter on mental health “myths,” published Friday. First let me say that any comparison of a physical health issue to mental health is no comparison at all. You can’t diagnose a mental health condition in one or two office visits.

At the St. Simons Island town hall meeting on Wednesday, in a display of contradictory logic, Commissioner Bill Brunson told the roughly 150 dissenting islanders why he favors stripping the Island Planning Commission of its site-plan powers. He said that he didn’t want the courts to get invo…

I continue to be confused by our board of commissioners’ lack of concern for the differences that exist between the mainland needs and St. Simons Island’s needs. The mainland desperately needs 200 industrial jobs that pay at least $1,000 per week, yet never talks about this dire and specific…

Star Parker writes a column that was printed in several newspapers including this publication. Her latest pen is a pitch to black voters to vote Republican. Parker leads with a charge that the Democratic Party is “more progressive, more ‘left wing.’” She attacks African American candidate St…

I gazed with amazement at Jim Powell’s political cartoon in the paper on Monday, June 11. I find it hilarious that he believes partisan politics is destroying our democracy when we don’t live in a democracy. I will say this once again, and hopefully for the final time. Dear liberals — we do …

The opinion letter from Thomas Goodrich published on June 9, titled “Trump’s positives are many” purports to list President Trump’s monumental accomplishments, but reads like the exaggerated, often fallacious, boasts of the president himself. I shudder to think of the “greatness” Mr. Goodric…

Here are some common myths exploded on mental illness.

Being a successful businessman requires a certain skill set.

Millionaire television comic Bill Maher hopes our economy will fail and American families will endure severe suffering. Knowing his millions will protect him, Maher wants the resulting hardship on American families to be grueling enough that it will turn them against the Trump administration…

Kudos to Pete Richmond for his letter to The Brunswick News published on June 7.

Common sense spending?

I wonder sometimes if this digital window that we have made for ourselves with the internet is a window at all. Perhaps it is a cell door. Maybe we are peering out of a now poor and wanting reality at a contrived and unreachable flicker of light. Our lives, having lost the taste and touch of…

“If you build it, he will come.” This line of dialogue comes from a movie,”Field of Dreams,” in which a voice from a corn field tells a farmer that if he builds a baseball field in his corn field, the ghosts of long dead baseball players will come and play ball. This also seems to be the gui…

In response to the recent Annual Georgia Sea Island Festival: We as a generation of people are being looked at as if our heritage has no meaning. It is sad to see how the way of the world works, when it comes to remembering. It is not a hard thing to celebrate events at Neptune Park, which i…

“There are none so blind as those who will not see” is an appropriate proverb for the radical left and horribly biased mainstream media. What Trump has accomplished is monumental in scope and substance. Just a few highlights: