The alternative newsweekly NOW has listed the Top 10 Tech Trends of 2007. Apple’s iPhone, FaceBook and Web TV top the list. The iPhone is the latest status symbol in Pensacola. Long,…
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Are McGuire’s dollars illegal?
According to the Treasury Department: “The defacement of currency” is against the law. “Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft,…
Test your 2007 news knowledge
South Florida Sun-Sentinel has this quiz on the events of 2007. I missed one. Check it out: Year in review quiz
Should Civic Center be sold?
The word that I am getting is that at least three of the Escambia County commissioners are ready to dump the Pensacola Civic Center and sell to the highest bidder. Is it…
Cheesiest UWF ad ever
Found on WEAR TV website. There have got to be better designers on campus.
GB loses fire boat
The Gulf Breeze Volunteer Fire Department’s rescue boat capsized last week while on route to the scene of a barge fire. The Fire Department was responding to a barge fire Dec. 15…
Navarre-Pensacola Beach road to open mid-2008
Well, sort of. The Daily News reports Panhandle Grading and Pavement Inc. will complete two lanes of the road from Navarre Beach to Opal Beach by next summer. Opal Beach is where…
Hugh King resigns as pastor
We had heard about this Monday afternoon. Rev. Hugh King, Jr. told his congregation on Sunday that he was stepping down as their pastor at Greater Union Baptist Church. King is facing…
CMPA timeline for RFP
From Ed Spears: 12/28/07: Deadline for comments on the RFP 1/10/08, Morning: Owen Beitsch meetings with Design Criteria Team, UWF, Studer Group, Pelicans, GCAACC representatives, City officials 1/10/08, Afternoon: Owen Beitsch available…
Toothless Kentucky
About half the population in Kentucky does not have dental insurance, and 1 in 10 are missing all their teeth. The NY Times article fails to report how many are married to…
Complaint filed against Walton Sheriff
Daily News reports: Walton County Finance Director Bill Imfeld dropped out of the sheriff’s race this month after James Murray, an attorney representing the Sheriff’s Office, sent a letter to the county…
GGW Judges stays with case
News Herald reports that U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak told “Girls Gone Wild†founder Joe Francis on Wednesday he would not remove himself from Francis’ latest lawsuit. Francis has advertised heavily on…
Will PNJ buy WEAR TV 3?
The Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to allow broadcasters to also own a newspaper in the same market. While Sinclair – which owns WEAR TV 3 – probably wouldn’t buy the…
Obama sidestepped tough votes
Barack Obama has captured the hearts of many young voters who are looking for a change in Washington. But will he be a catalyst for change? The NY Times reports that Obama…
Not all ports struggle
Mobile Press Register reports: The Alabama state docks saw record cargo volume in 2007, driven primarily by a 50 percent increase in container cargo and record coal shipments, the Alabama State Port…
Insurers may be sued
Miami Herald reports that Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed three high-powered lawyers to file a class-action lawsuit against the insurance industry on behalf of state residents. Crist said his legal office has…
More CMP delays
The latest timetable for the Community Maritime Park calls for the requests for proposal from the Master Developer candidates not to be due until April 15, 2008!!!! This means Springdale, Ark., who…
State DOT doing all it can
That’s what the Pensacola News Journal reports today (DOT defends runoff efforts). I think the more accurate statement would be: ” Listen we bid out the $130 million plus project and allowed…
Writer seeks info on dad at Naval Museum
From San Antonio Express-News: I was 7, a gangly schoolboy in Corpus Christi, when word came that my dad, a pilot for the Navy’s famed flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, had…
Beach CRA
Panama City Beach has a Community Redevelopment Agency to take care of its infrastructure needs. It can do so since its beach residents and businesses pay property taxes. The Pensacola Beach leases…