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9/11 Photos
We ran a special issue after the 9/11 tragedy. Here are few of the photos from the New York Times News Services that were in that issue. Here are the photos:IN 9/11
9/11 – Picking up the pieces
Our A&E Editor Sam Baltrusis was in New York City when the planes crashed into the World Trade Center. A year later, he wrote for us his recollections of that week. The article is saved over several PDFs: Pick up the pieces -Pg 10 Pick up the pieces -Pg 11 Pick up the pieces -Pg 12 Pick [...]
9/11: Where were you?
On 9/11/01: I was in the Independent offices on Cervantes St.(next to Jerry's Drive In) holding our daily sales staff meeting, when a staffer came saying there was a plane crash in NYC. At first, I shrugged it off - what's news about a plane crash-, but she said it was into the World Trade [...]
Dateline: Jackson, MS – Alt weekly battles Gannett
The Alt-weekly The Jackson Free Press has been battling with the Gannett-owned Clarion Ledger over distribution spots. The Clarion Ledger tried to get distribution rights to key locations in Jackson. Then the paper tried to charge the independent papers for being distributed in the [...]
Virgil has hard time letting go
Letter to the PNJ: Vote them out Thank you to Charles Fairchild and his Save Our City political action committee for trying to save our downtown waterfront for the residents of Pensacola. He and his group were "out-monied." Proponents poured money into this project, more than I have ever seen in [...]
Making Touch Screen votes count
The Battle of Touch Screen voting continues over creating a paper trail for voters. It's a fight between those who believe a paper trail is a safety net that offers assurances of outcome and a deterrent to hackers and election officials who see the paper trail is an expensive, retrofitted security [...]
Escambia County Commission where every vote counts
Gene Valentino winning District 2 by 5 votes makes the total of county commissioners who will be elected with 102 votes or less. In 2004 District 5 Kevin White beat Steve Barry by 102 votes. White was elected with only 26% of the votes. District 1 Mike Whitehead beat Wilson Robertson by 44 [...]
Hot. Hot, Hot – 9/10/06
Most viewed posts over the weekend Ron Melton attacks Black Caucus 9/11 Rememberance Does ECUA get the message? Gulf Breeze zoo troubles Locals mount campaign against ABC 9/11 Graphic version of 9/11 Report Jesus Camp coming to P'cola film fest Kolokouris may be big winner, too Oops, [...]
Graphic version of 9/11 Report
This is cool. Click here to read The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, which sets text from The 9/11 Commission Report to images—with striking results.
Washington Buzz – week ended 9/8/06
From Slate.com: Zeitgeist Checklist, Gitmo Edition What Washington is talking about this week. By Dana Milbank Updated Friday, Sept. 8, 2006, at 6:21 PM ET Lights Out for Black Sites War on terrorism. President Bush regains upper hand with two tactical concessions: moving prisoners from secret [...]
St. Joe gets out of homebuilding
From St. Pete Times: St. Joe Co., the largest private landowner in Florida (825,000 acres), is getting out of the homebuilding business in the state. To date, it has developed 22 primary residential and resort communities under its company Arvida. Last year St. Joe built about 1,800 homes.St. [...]
Valentino Wins
It's official. Gene Valentino is new commissioner for District 2. He beat Edwin Roberts 4,371 to 4,366, after five provisional ballots were counted. Provisional ballots are those given voters who show up at the wrong precinct, don't have proper identification or aren't registered to vote. In a [...]