It has been a week since the Community Maritime Park passed. Everything is the same, but everything has changed. The Pensacola City Council, except for Marty Donovan, is more unified than ever….
Author: Rick Outzen
Aragon East in the Raw
Here are the raw scores on the Aragon East proposals: Townsend Downtown Pensacola Hotel 47 Esplanade 64 Hawkshaw Eastside 85 Technology Bay 78 Technology Bay at Hawkshaw 90 Wiggins Downtown Pensacola Hotel…
Obermann Blasts Bush
Last night, MSNBC host Keith Obermann blasted Pres. Bush on his show with Ground Zero in the background. It is the most scathing attack on the current Administration that I’ve heard to…
Ninth Ave Selection Controversy
Yesterday’s CRA meeting had its share of controversy when developers protested the award of the Aragon East project to Hawkshaw Eastside. The PNJ covered the meeting (Attempt to overturn project fails). Here…
Belmont-DeVillers votes to be in DIB referendum
At yesterday’s Pensacola City Council Committee of the Whole – Dolores Curry asked that the Belmont DeVillers be included in the referendum for an expanded Downtown Improvement District. The council agreed to…
Video: The Best War Ever
There is a new book out on the propaganda campaign that led us into the Iraq War – The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq. Youtube.com has…
Hot. Hot, Hot – 9/11/06
Most views for Monday, 9/11 Kolokouris may be big winner, too 9/11 Rememberance Escambia Co. School Board races – major 9/11: Where were you? Virgil has hard time letting go ABC shuts…
Debt of Honor – fictional 9/11 attack
After the 9/11 attack, several analysts made comparisons with Tom Clancey’s book ‘Debt of Honor.’ Here are excerpts from his book: “The irony of the situation was something Sato would never learn….
What the local military said on 9/12/01
IN editor Duwayne Escobedo wrote this article on the local military’s response to 9/11 for the 9/14/01 issue: A terrorist seizes a jumbo jet and flies it into an American landmark.Thousands die,…
Quotes in Aftermath of 9/11
For our 9/14/01 issue, we called around the community for quotes. Here’s what we heard: “Look what happens when we let our guard down. It’s time we showed our backbone.†— Elona…
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…