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10 News Stories You May Have Missed
From foreignpolicy.com India Helps Iran Build the Bomb, While the White House Looks the Other Way China Runs up African Debt Bush's Post-Katrina Power Grab Russia Fuels Latin American Arms Race United States Funds the Taliban Iran and Israel Hold Secret [...]
Alutto leaving
Escambia County Planning and Zoning Director Peter Aluotto is leaving at the end of Feb. for Tampa to take the same position.
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Warrant officers can be Navy pilots
Ten pilots and four naval flight officers (NFO) graduate this month from the trial run of the Flying Chief Warrant Officer Pilot program, and 10 pilots and six NFOs will be chosen in 2007. The program allows enlisted Sailors the opportunity to fly in patrol squadrons, helicopter sea combat [...]
What is real poverty
Food for Thought from MarketWatch.com: The richest two percent of the world's population owns more than half of the world's household wealth. Although you may believe you've heard this statistic before, you haven't: For the first time, personal wealth, not income, has been measured around the [...]
Double digit sales tax may replace property taxes
So you are angry over your property tax bill? Would you rather pay more sales tax? Hmmm, how about 7.5 percent more - from the current state rate of 6% to 13.5%? That's one of the controversial options recommended by a governor-appointed task force last week. Not sure the impact on county [...]
ECUA should pay me
Today's cover story for the PNJ is on the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant. Indepth analysis by O' Sullivan Creel has concluded that the ratepayers could pay for it with a $4.80-$6 per month increase. In my Sept. 27, 2005 Outtakes I computed it could be done for $6.75. Residential rates [...]
Sam new president of Germanna
Dr. David A. Sam, of Pace, Florida, has been selected president for Germanna and will assume his new post on or before March 19, 2007. He is currently vice president for academic affairs at Pensacola Junior College. Read: Germanna picks new president
How dangerous were Guantanamo prisoners
The IN has made it clear we don’t agree with the Bush Administration’s policies at Guantanamo. We had one cover story on the issue (Torture in Guantánamo ). The Associated Press has tracked down 245 prisoners that were formerly held at Guantanamo to find out what happened to them once they [...]
Graduation and drop out rates up
Florida Department of Education has released its report on the graduation and drop out rates for 2005-06. Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa are better than the state averages: Graduation 71.0% Drop Out 3.5% Under Superintendent Jim Paul - Esc. County graduation rates have improved almost [...]
We are Fattest People on the Planet
It's official - just in case you might have thought the crowd you saw at WalMart was only an optical illusion - Americans are the most overweight persons in the world, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States . Americans are heavier than Mexicans, [...]
Most popular Myspace passwords
According to Wired.com, top 25 passwords for Myspace are: password1, abc123, myspace1, password, blink182, qwerty1, fuckyou, 123abc, baseball1, football1, 123456, soccer, monkey1, liverpool1, princess1, jordan23, slipknot1, superman1, iloveyou1 and monkey In Pensacola our crack research team [...]