Republicans need to reinvent themselves to stay relevant as a party
ORLANDO -- Questions arise. As the days wind down in 2012, we need to look at why the election turned out the way it did. Republicans will have to figure out why Romnet lost.

ORLANDO -- Questions arise. As the days wind down in 2012, we need to look at why the election turned out the way it did. Republicans will have to figure out why Romnet lost.
EDGEWATER -- This little upstart Internet newspaper as some people call it has certainly grown and come of age in its almost five years of existence. And it shows with the recent awards Henry Frederick, its editor and publisher, received in the Florida Press Club's 2012 journalism contest.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Daytona Beach police have publicly released the name of the young man shot to death over the weekend, but Headline Surfer has not been given any press release information on the homicide identifying the victim.
The Brannon Center, 105 Riverside Drive, is being discussed as an 'anchor' for Canal Street by city officials like Mayor Adam Barringer shown here in this NSBNews.net / Headline Surfer photo during his 2009 campaign.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- City officials are pinning their hopes for inclusion of Canal Street in a new CRA district with the Brannon Center as its pinnacle.
The Brannon Center was the focal point of a day-long visioning and goal-setting workshop at the Atlantic Centyer for the Arts for the City Commission and top administrative brass.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- What was supposed to be a quiet private sendoff for retired City Commissioner Jim Hathaway at Mayor Adam Barringer's wine-bar restaurant has turned into a public relations nightmare for city hall with receipts obtained by Headline Surfer showing even more taxpayer money has been spent than previously acknowledged.
DAYTONA BEACH -- For the second time in three days, a young man has been murdered in Daytona Beach, the latest about 5 a.m. Tuesday, felled by a gunshot wound to the chest. And while Police Chief Michael Chitwood made himself available to TV camera crews and a News-Journal videographer, he and his assigned PIOs continued carrying out his spiteful vendetta of cutting us off from the news because our investigative story on his promotion of a supervisor ho allegedly mistreated women cops, won two awards in the recent Florida Press Club journalism competition.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- No arrests have been made in two separate gunshot slayings in the city since the weekend, though Police Chief Michael Chitwood indicated to other local media outlets his officers have identified a person of interest in the second slaying.
ORMOND BEACH -- So Jason Davis’s new best friend and advisor is Ted Doran according to a Dec. 1st story in the Daytona Beach News-Journal ( http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20121201/NEWS/312019989). How low will the newspaper go with its negative coverage?
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS -- SunRail crews will close O'Brien Road at the railroad crossing in Altamonte Springs today and tomorrow.
Construction crews will install a second set of tracks at O'Brien Road and upgrade signal equipment during the closure.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- As our world modernizes, I can’t help but miss a fading sense of home as it gets replaced with this manufactured product of a planet. I crave for some semblance of the“good old days” that my generation only has a chance to see in classic movies.