Category: News
Veoila has labor issues elsewhere
Veoila Transportation, the French company that manages Escambia County Area Transit, has labor issues in other parts of North America. The Phoenix New Times reported…
Mysterious Deaths of 9 B.P. Oil Spill Whistleblowers (video)
In the past year, nine vocal critics or potential whistleblowers of the Gulf oil spill all died in extremely mysterious ways. Their deaths could be…
Buzz: Only 30 people at Milton Tea Party
The daily newspaper reported that the Pensacola and Milton chapters of the Tea Party united for a rally yesterday in Milton. WEAR TV reported that…
Wall Street Protest
The protests on Wall Street may be the most under reported story of this past week. The group Occupy Wall Street streamed live some of…
Regulations impact on jobs, not as much as some think
Bureau of Labor Statistics shows employers attributing a small fraction of job losses to governmental regulations. In the first half of 2011, employers listed regulations…
Gaetz sets out path to redistricting
State Sen. Don Gaetz (R-Niceville), chairman of the Senate Reapportionment Committee, says he wants proposed redistricting maps ready by Nov. 1 and a committee bill…
Veolia responds to ECAT workers
We received this letter from Veolia, the French company that manages Escambia County Area Transit: Thanks Escambia Community I’d like to thank everyone for their…
The Week’s Best Reads
From our coming economic doom to Jon Stewart’s subtle transformation from comic to political activist, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the…
Do less taxes really equal more jobs?
This Miami Herald cartoon (click on image to enlarge) illustrates the absurdity of the Right-Wing agenda:
Congressman Miller speaks on Post Service
IN reporter Jeremy Morrison interviewed our Congressman Jeff Miller about the upcoming local postal union rally and HR 2309, which he has co-sponsored. Read 44-Cent…
Buzz: Grover & Collier saved Ascend jobs
The Ascend expansion also never happened, but for the work then-Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson and Chamber Chairman Collier Merrill. Several Ascent executives came…
