Author: Rick Outzen
How to raise $115M to move ECUA plant
See if you can follow my math: Funds needed $115,000,000 Interest (30 yrs, 5.25%) $153,000,000 Closing costs (est) $ 4,740,000 Total needed $272,740,000 _________________________________________________ The…
ECUA manages on a prayer
Yesterday’s PNJ article on the relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant ( Anyone got $115 million? ) really bothers me, especially this section:…
Slate: Washington Buzz
From Slate.com Zeitgeist Checklist: Still Turning the Corner What Washington is talking about this week. By Michael Grunwald Posted Friday, Oct. 20, 2006, at 6:42…
Air America responds to bankruptcy
*Why Air America Matters* by Thom Hartmann There are times when doing the profitable thing is also doing the right thing. That’s certainly what Roger…
IN Your Face TV: Talking Points 10.13
This isn’t the best editing job on my part, but here are my Talking Points for the Oct. 13 show. Talking Points Video
IN Hot Seat: Susan Watson
From the IN Your Face TV show – dated 10/13/06 Susan Watson – Regional Director, ACLU HOT SEAT LINK
IN Your Head Radio – Oct. 20 show
Line up: New School vs. Old School, Interview: Tom Roush – Pensacola International Film Festival, Loaded Gun: Eric Himan, Rant: Best Ever Listen to Program…
Inside Andrews Institute
Tonight, Baptist Hospital gave guided, hard hat tours inside Phase 1 of the Andrews Institute in Gulf Breeze. The facility is about 80% complete. They…
How your property tax dollars are spent?
For the Pensacola homeowner, here is how your property tax dollar is spent: City of Pensacola               $0.23 Escambia County         …
Touart has gone hunting again
This time with the county’s biggest road contractors – Anderson-Columbia & Roads, Inc. Hmmmmmmmmmm, I’m sure Touart paid his way and they didn’t talk business…
Osama Message
After numerous rounds of “We don’t even know if Osama is still alive”, Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own…
Saga of Volunteer vs. Paid Firefighters continues
October 10, 2006 Chief Kenny Perkins Escambia County Fire Rescue 6565 North W Street, Suite 230 Pensacola, FLÂ 32505 Chief Perkins: On October 7, career…
Mice infest new County complex
While Touart and Magaha battle, we getting reports the new Escambia County Office Complex on Palafox Place is infested with mice. We just thought there…
Court orders County to quit being babies
The judge ruled this morning that County Adminstrator George Touart and the County Commission were being retaliatory towards the Clerk Ernie Lee Magaha by not…
Election Hijinks in Ohio
Published: October 17, 2006 Voters in Ohio can be forgiven if they feel they have been beamed out of the Midwest and dropped into a…
Money talks?……for judgeships
From our buddy Tom McLaughlin at the FWB Daily News: Does money talk? Dixie Dan Powell’s campaign war chest for circuit judge is more than…
Sorry, Rex, Van Camp won more awards
Gulf Coast Crimestoppers recently won three awards from Crime Stoppers International. Two for largest increases in arrests and stolen property recovered; the third of the…
Hilterbrand responds to McWaters defection
Todd, You would like to see our Democratic values in the Panhandle represented, recognized and addressed so you are supporting a republican candidate? With that…
Slate: Washington Buzz
Zeitgeist Checklist, GOP Collapse Edition What Washington is talking about this week. By Michael Grunwald Posted Friday, Oct. 13, 2006, at 6:49 PM ET La…
Katherine Harris quote of the week
“I had always thought `poli’ means `many,’ and `tics’ means `blood sucking insects. So I barely understood why the separation of church and state is…
