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Is GOP ignoring minority vote?

Last Thursday, Tavis Smiley moderated a Republican presidential forum on PBS, where candidates — for the first time — answered questions from “a panel exclusively…

NY Times covers Atchison

NY Times: Town Is Shaken After Prosecutor’s Arrest in a Child-Sex Sting To neighbors here, J. D. Roy Atchison was a deft federal prosecutor, an…

Impact 100 has imitator

WIND targets downtown revitalization Dothan Eagle – Dothan,AL,USA The group is fashioned after a Pensacola, Fla., organization called Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area. That women’s…

Studer is crazy

If you really look at the commitments Quint Studer has made to make the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park successful, you can only draw…

Alas Baseball Challenge has no reply

This weekend I renewed my challenge to those who oppose the baseball park component of the Community Maritime Park. Pick five minor league baseball parks…

Baseball Challenge

I challenge anyone to identify five minor league baseball parks built since 1999 in downtown areas that have not helped the economies of their cities….

Fl Supreme Court revises TIF ruling

We’re trying to track down what the revised ruling means for the Community Maritime Park. We hear WEAR TV3 is interpreting it to mean there…

Stadium – key to CMP

I interviewed all four candidates who want to be the master developer for the Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park (Inside Business ). They each…

Strange business climate

A popular downtown bakery closes (Pitzmann Bakery to close its doors ) because it can’t find qualified bakers to help an ailing owner. Hate to…

Pensacola City Hall had no storm surge

Park opponents love to claim that building anything on Pensacola Bay is foolish and that any hurricane will wash it away. They cite the damage…

Who is Will Waspo?

On pnj.com – Studer-hater posted this diatribe about the park and Studer: Nobody attends the games now at the Pelicant’s home at swampy UWF. This…

Nobles-Russenberger feud continues

Jack Nobles and Ray Russenberger ran against each other 2004 for the at-large seat on the Pensacola City Council. Nobles, the incumbent, won re-election. Russenberger…

Park plan draws fire on pnj.com

Here are some of the inane comments on the pnj.com on the Community Maritime Park plans From someone identified as gfri: I might consider voting…

Get away from FCAT overload

The Miami Herald reports that the Broward County School Board is fed up with FCAT overload and wants to scale back the relentless, one-size-fits-all FCAT…

Attacking Studer

A favorite pastime for posters on pnj.com – and even on this blog at times – is to blame Quint Studer for everything. We saw…

Coulter not taken seriously

Columnist Mark Bowden writes: Coulter herself is not taken seriously by serious people, so her attacks are a little bit like being pelted by cotton…

Health care remains an issue

The UAW agreement with General Motors has key provision regarding health care. It sets up a health care trust that would get G.M.â€™s massive liability…