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Independent NewsSt. Pete Times: Dems should forget Panhandle
The St. Pete Times recommends to the Democratic presidential candidates to forget about the Florida Panhandle and concentrate south of Interstate 4. If you're looking for Florida Democrats fired up about Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, you might want to look somewhere besides [...]
McNesby settles Boggon lawsuit
We have received notice that Escambia County Sheriff Ron McNesby has reached an settlement with the estate of Robert Boggon. Boggon died in the jail infirmary in August 2005. The terms of the settlement are confidential. Read this IN article on Boggon's death
Bay County deals with landfills
Florida DEP is praising the Bay County commissioners for adopting ordinances to better regulate construction and debris landfills. Maybe the Escambia and Santa Rosa county commissioners should check into it. From News Herald: The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has expressed [...]
State colleges suffer under cuts
The state university system has lost $65.2-million for this budget year, thanks to emergency cuts made during the fall special session. Here's a breakdown: * UF: $9.8-million * UCF: $6.2-million * USF: $6.7-million * FSU: $7.7-million * FAU: [...]
Latte Wars brewing
It's McDonalds vs Starbucks. The prize is dominance in the $11 billion specialty coffee industry. In 2000, then Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz declared his company would be the "McDonalds of coffee." Well now McDonalds wants to be the McDonalds of coffee. The word we get is the local McDonalds [...]
Pinellas has high DUI conviction rate
The latest Traffic Citation Statistics that the Florida Department Of Highway Safety And Motor Vehicles website has on DUI arrests and convictions is for 2006. That report shows Pinellas County has a 94 percent conviction rate for its DUI cases that were disposed. Pinellas County (2006) DUI [...]
Florida’s Most Influential Blogs
Ricksblog.biz is ranked Florida's Most Influential Blog by Blognetnews.com - moving up from #12 last week. The Pensacola area now has three blogs in the top 20: Mark O'Brien's (#17) and Pensacola Beach Blog (#20).
Is Rudy coming to Pcola?
There is a persistent buzz that GOP presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani will be coming to Pensacola this week. No confirmation yet, but stay tuned. Meanwhile supporters of Democratic presidential candidate, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama will host a rally from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Yesterday [...]
IN Your Head Radio wrap-up
Another week of stellar guests on IN Your Head Radio. 1/7/08 Gerald Cilente -Trends Research Institute Talked about the coming Economic 9/11 and the spread of the tax revolt across the country. 1/8/08 Bob Geary – N.C. Indy's Edwards Watch column John Edwards' campaign is over, even if [...]
Report: Insurers fleece public
I love the St. Pete Times. Here is a report that it did on how the big insurance companies have ripped off their policyholders. The property insurance industry not only racked up near-record profits in 2007 - about $65-billion after taxes - but overcharged American homeowners an average of [...]
Gannett blogger reveals identity
He is Jim Hopkins. Yesterday, I left the Gannett Co. Inc. after 20 years' work as a reporter and editor. I was one of the 43 USA Today employees who took a buyout last month. And now I've got a lot of explaining to do -- because I'm living my life on Internet time. Check out his blog: [...]