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 Know: I and this blog have never…
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Theme song for Charlie Fairchild
Please listen to it while reading the PNJ [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1rAB0yDeU]
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 process biggest objections to proposal For the…
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 from Lebanon – sent by local New…
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 study on Pensacola’s Historical District. Here is…
Actual copy of State Attorney’s response to Garner complaint
Here’s the pdf – State Attorney’s Response
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 Part 2 Then we spent a month…
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 the fear card – We have no…
Another theme song suggestion for Marty Donovan
This is my favorite Blues Traveler song. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=BF4c4uj1wGU]
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 strong stands on the issues – jail…
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 on, Marty, tell the whole story!/Â Nichols…
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 Vince Whibbs, Sr., Community Maritime Park. The…
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 best cities” live shows no correlation between…
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 we’re rolling;BSoc enlists Michael O’Donovan;Democrat Melinda Hilterbrand…
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 Institute report (Brookings Institute) – which I…
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 best posts. Not sure how we’ll do…
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 Wiser Iraq. Many in the capital wonder…
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 dividing her family and the entire community….
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 office, under oath, a different story than…
Top August Posts – 100,392 visitors
You can see how popular the blog has become in the past two weeks by how highly ranked the later posts are. However, the top post was the one on the District…