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Stan Escudero
The deficit: America needs selflessness and wisdom from its leaders By Stanley Escudero of Daytona Beach Shores NSBNews.net chief political blogger Congress is congenitally incapable of agreeing on...

Party Lines Political Notebook

NSBNEWS.net photo by Sera Frederick. Former Mayor Sally Mackay sits in the back of the commission room chambers at City Hall with her husband, Richard Spangler, during Wednesday's special meeting of the City Commission for action on Interim City Manager Pam Brangaccio's contract. Former Mayoral candidate Marilee Walters, shown here partially in the photo, was also in attendance as was new Mayor Adam Barringer.

Making the Grade

NSBNEWS.net photo by Henry Frederick. Carol Hargy, director of personnel for the City of New Smyrna Beach, returned to her job two days after resigning effective Dec. 16, for private enterprise in Jacksonville.

GRADE: A

Carol Hargy's change of heart about leaving New Smyrna Beach is a plus for city government because of her experience, expertise and approach to the mission of proper governance and adherence to personnel issues at City Hall. 

Hargy resigned early last month, with her final day Dec. 16. She was intending to return to the private sector in Jacksonville, which would have required her to move to St. Augustine as a halfway point between friends and relatives here and the extended commute.

Political Bloggers

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Darlene Vann

EDGEWATER -- Can you believe what this country went through this past week in Boston and its neighboring communities? Not since 9/11 have we as Americans been so glued to our television sets, and...

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Darlene Vann

EDGEWATER -- A Madison, Ala. school principal banned the word "Easter" from her school this year. Say what? She says it was in the interest of religious diversity.

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Dana D. Swanson

DEBARY -- Over the last couple of weeks we have heard President Obama blaming sequestration cuts; and the big bad Republican Party, for being responsible for everything from school...

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Michael Visconti

EDGEWATER -- The budget problems for President Obama and the lawmakers in Congress can be tackled by making additional cuts. It's so simple.

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Dana D. Swanson

DEBARY -- John Kerry had his unsuccessful bid to become president, but his campaign allowed a state senator from Illinois to have a prime speaking spot, thus setting up America's futurewith...

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Ellen Darden

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Good grief! You could not get away from the anguished and alarmist reporting about the Triumph, a luxury cruise ship that experienced mechanical and systems...

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Darlene Vann

EDGEWATER -- So the FDA has now passed “sweeping new safety rules” to keep our food safe and avoid these outbreaks of bacteria born disease which have killed many of this country...

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Ellen Darden

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Mortgage interest deductions. Flood insurance. Short sale and foreclosure mortgage forgiveness. Property insurance. Commercial Business Taxes. Private property rights...

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Ed Connor

ORMOND BEACH -- Remember how Albert Einstein sitting at his desk as an assistant patent clerk in Bern Switzerland dreamed up the Theory of Relativity just through daydreaming thought experiments...

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