Category: News
New Orleans Institutes Curfew, but why?
 Last week, the New Orleans City Council instituted a strict curfew for kids 16 and younger in the French Quarter. The idea was, they said,…
Title I Announces New Online Support for Parents
From Escambia Co. Public School District: The Title I Department has announced that a new on-line program entitled Parents K-12 (www.parentsk12.com) will be available at…
Wake Up with Labor
In conjunction with statewide Awake the State rallies, local labor activists will gather tomorrow at state Representative Clay Ford’s local office. The Northwest Florida Federation…
Gulf Power rate hearing on Tuesday
Gulf Power is back before the Public Service Commission on Tuesday for its rate increase. Last week, the utility filed a request that its transmission…
Buzz: UWF/Studers have big announcement
Remember Pensacola Promise – the scholarship program that promised scholarships for every high school graduate that lived inside the Pensacola city limits? The University of…
Oliver says County never contacted about seats
George Hawthorne claimed last week on this blog that Escambia County had been contacted about the stadium seats that the CMPA bought but later sold…
From New Hampshire: All these debates might be getting tedious for voters….
14 of them! And the candidates have little time to do much else… Jake Berry of The Nashua Telegraph complains that this has left New…
Video: Toddlers and Tiaras’ Alana Steals Show
TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras has had its share of entertaining contestants but six-year-old Alana just might top the list. The little southern beauty queen and…
Video: Winners and Losers at the New Hampshire Debate
George Stephanopoulos and John Berman recap the crucial GOP debate. Source: ABC
LOL: Daily adopts our style of primary coverage
PNJ executive editor Dick Schneider tells his reader(s) in his Sunday edition that the daily paper will be the source for navigating the political “jungle.”…
Video: Commemorating anniversary of Tucson shooting
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly are back in Tucson, preparing to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting that left six dead…
Kinda seems that way…
Or maybe it’s just that we have had two debates within 12 hours. Slate.com’s John Dickerson ponders the serious lack of humor in the GOP…