How did PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien feel about first Trillium plan?

Amazing what a difference three and half years make. In 2002, O’Brien wrote in favor of the first Trillium plan which didn’t have an RFP…

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Marty, tell us how you really feel

Here is the clip from WSRE debate where Marty Donovan uses IN editor Duwayne Escobedo’s first question as means to attack the paper. Points to…

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Theme song for Charlie Fairchild

Please listen to it while reading the PNJ [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1rAB0yDeU]

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My rebuttal to Fairchild viewpoint

Stop Our City founder Charles Fairchild gives the PNJ readers his final viewpoint on the Vince Whibbs, Sr., Community Maritime Park today.Viewpoint: Baseball park, flawed…

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Best of Rick’s Blog: Non-CMP posts

  Not every post is on the Community Maritime Park or Stop Our City: Is Jon Stewart a Threat? Childers Campaign Card, circa 1970’s Letter…

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Gindroz weighs in on CMP debate

Ray Gindroz is considered one of the top urban planners in the country. He has spoken several times in Pensacola and did do a major…

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Actual copy of State Attorney’s response to Garner complaint

Here’s the pdf – State Attorney’s Response

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Best of Rick’s Blog: Email saga

First, Stop Our City got the emails of the pro-park side: SAVE OUR CITY Press Conference SOC PRESS CONFERENCE SPEECH My Analysis of SOC/Email SOC:Email-Gate…

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Marty talks of gated communities on WEAR

WEAR TV’s In Focus program today focused on the Vince Whibbs, Sr., Community Maritime Park. Both Marty Donovan and Quint Studer were interviewed. Marty played…

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Another theme song suggestion for Marty Donovan

This is my favorite Blues Traveler song. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=BF4c4uj1wGU]

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Does the IN deserve to be attacked by Donovan, others?

Yes – at least, on our opinions. Our opinion writings – Winners & Losers, Outtakes and Rants & Raves – evoke strong emotions. We take…

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Best of Rick’s Blog: The Videos

The Stop Our City Cartoons:Stop Our City Video;STOP OUR CITY – Part 2 ;STOP OUR CITY CARTOON, PART 3;Stop Our City, Part 4SOC BLAB Show:Come…

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Pro park has fantastic day

The open “house” and fish fry on the Trillium property today was a tremendous success. Over 1000 people walked the property and cheered on the…

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Elebash bashes Roger MacDonald

On Gulf1: retired UWF professor CC Elebash delivers the party line on the Vince Whibbs, Sr., Community Maritime Park: “Money Magazine’s 2006 list of “100…

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Best of Rick’s Blog: Better Save Our City

The beginning of a movement to take back the City:Better Save Our City (SC). The early members: Richard Hawkins joins BSOC;BSOC adds second UWF professor….now…

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Best of Rick’s Blog: Baseball

We challenged Stop Our City to really investigate downtown minor league baseball parks (Challenge to Save Our City). They hit me with an old Brookings…

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Best of Rick’s Blog

TV networks run marathons of their favorite shows. Well we’re going to the same here. For the next two days we’ll highlight some of our…

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Washington Buzz – week ending 9/1/06

From Slate.com: Zeitgeist Checklist What Washington is talking about this week. By Dana Milbank Posted Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, at 8:18 AM ET Sadr But…

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Marty’s wife feels SOC is the victim

Helene Donovan wrote a viewpoint in the PNJ today (Viewpoint: Maritime park proponents fail in uniting community). She blames the Communty Maritime Park group for…

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Does Marty have a memory loss problem?

According to the PNJ article Office dismisses park plan complaint that covers the State Attorney dismissing Tom Garner’s complaint, Marty Donovan told the state attorney’s…

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