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Oops, Blackburn has been promoted
Rex Blackburn was promoted to Lieutenant this summer. My bad! Van Camp – 2004 American Legion State Law Enforcement Officer of the Year – was skipped over for Sgt – but Blackburn…
Blackburn responds on Van Camp
Escambia County Sheriff Sgt. Rex Blackburn is a regular letter writer to the PNJ. His letters always defend his boss and protest how Sheriff McNesby has been mistreated by the media. We…
Newsweek wimps out
Here are the International covers for this week’s Newsweek. Notice that the U.S cover is somewhat different. Once again mainstream media wimps out. If Newsweek has reports that we’re losing in Afghanistan…
We need a condiment with values
Got this in my morning email. It’s a YouTube video from payattention.org. Their motto: “If you’re not voting, then who are you electing?” Check it out: A candidate we all can support
Tell us something new
Research 2000 recently conducted a survey testing whether progressive or conservative talk radio shows are more open to callers with dissenting points of view. None of the calls were made to WCOA’s…
Florida Sec. of State questions Sarasota vote
Florida’s Secretary of State Sue Cobb wants the Florida Supreme Court to rule whether a Sarasota referendum requiring a paper trail for all voting is unconstitutional. Whether or not the referendum question…
Housing slipping in South Florida
South Florida Sun Sentinel: Housing prices are dropping almost as fast as the gas prices in Palm and Broward counties – dropping 6 percent. Read on: Slowdown sends housing prices, sales plunging…
St. Joe sells off 4000 acres
Miami Herald: St. Joe Co. – the state’s largest private land owner and the company behind much of the development in Walton and Bay counties – wants to sell the state 4,000…
RB Buzz: Lee wants county job
There are consistent rumblings from Pensacola Beach that Santa Rosa Island Authority Buck Lee has been lobbying Escambia County Commissioners to abolish the SRIA and his job. Lee believes that he would…
More Swiftboating in Florida elections
 Remember the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth – the “independent” politcal group that attack Sen. John Kerry’s military service during the 2004 presidential election? Well, Florida is inundated similar groups who are…
Studer blamed for tax increase
William Thurston is becoming a regular letter writer to the PNJ. This letter is from the Sunday edition: A boondoggle Well, it sure didn’t take long for our taxes to go, did…