GOP candidate for governor, Rick Scott, has built his campaign on negative campaigning. Our office receives attack emails daily from his campaign. The onslaught defeated Attorney General Bill McCollum and now the…
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Leonard Skinner dies
The namesake of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Leonard Skinner, died Monday in his sleep at the St. Catherine Laboure Manor in Jacksonville. The basketball coach and gym teacher at Robert E….
News: Rubio has personal financial problems
The Sarasota Herald Tribune reported on Sunday that GOP candidate Marco Rubio, who is seeking the U.S. Senate seat against Congressman Kendrick Meek and Gov. Charlie Crist, “has gone deep into debt…
ACLU Challenges False Statements
Press Release: ACLU Challenges False Statements by Opponents to Proposed Fair Districts Amendments 5 & 6 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and the People over Politics Campaign…
Pensacola: City of Choice in 1988
I also ran across this speech given on July 12, 1988 by City Manager Rod Kendig to the North Pensacola Optimist Club. Annexation was an issue then, too. The first goal of…
Another city plan that never quite happened
In 2003, the Pensacola City Council created a Strategic Plan outlining goals and programs through 2009. One of the six goals was “Pensacola: A Growing City” – which made an annexation plan…
History of Escambia County Administrators
The job of county administrator was created in 1977. Escambia County has had 14 people hold the job — average tenure 1 year, 8 months if you include the interim and acting…
Pensacola plane crashes near Longview, Tx
The Shreveport Times reports that a small plane from Pensacola crashed late Sunday night into a hay barn in Panola County, Texas, after it ran out of fuel. No word on who…
Where are BP funds for research?
On May 24, BP promised $500 million to research impact of its oil disaster on the Gulf. A panel of scientists would determine how the money would be distributed, according to the…
Board Approves New Administrator
The Escambia County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved Randy Oliver as the new County Administrator. Oliver said he’d be able to start no later than Nov. 1. Oliver, who has more than…
Jones: We need jobs
Escambia County Property Appraiser Chris Jones talked about the economy and the real estate market at Real Estate Council’s seminar on Tuesday, Sept. 14. Jones talked about his 30 years appraising Escambia…
View: Tribute to Leroy Boyd
Bob Kerrigan sent me this commentary on Leroy Boyd: When a person dies those who knew the deceased will say things like, I didn’t always agree with him, he wasn’t perfect, sometime…
Gun-smugglers plead guilty to drug charges
Mobile Press Register that two Texas men accused of trying to trade narcotics and cash for military-grade weapons and body armor pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge. Jesucristo Lopez, 29,…
BP denies State of Alabama claim
Gov. Bob Riley submitted the state of Alabama’s interim lack of revenue claim for $148 million claim directly to incoming BP CEO Bob Dudley on Aug. 12 during a meeting in Montgomery….
New Census Report Shows America More Impoverished
Today the U.S. Department of Commerce released a report on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States for 2009. Its findings showed: •          The median household income in 2009…
Commerce Dept. helps Alabama recover
Press Release: BP Oil Spill Recovery Efforts in Alabama Get $175,000 Boost from the U.S. Department of Commerce WASHINGTON – The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) today announced $175,000 in…
Why the Gulf misses BP
My latest article for The Daily Beast is on Feinberg’s visit to Orange Beach and the claims process: Nearly 1,000 small-business owners from Alabama and Florida’s Gulf Coast were packed into the…
Leroy Boyd passes away
The founder and head of Movement for Change passed away today after a sudden illness. Boyd has been a civil rights leaders for decades, a champion for the disenfranchised. He will be…
Orange Beach mayor impressive
Why did the head of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Ken Feinberg, go to Orange Beach, instead of Pensacola? Because Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon called him and told him how screwed…
New Report Released On Oiled Birds
Press Release: Based on a rigorous review by a team of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists of previously released preliminary data, the Service has compiled an expanded report of the birds…