Category: News
They keep plugging away
The Stop Our City folks keep plugging away at Gulf1.com. They miss their Tuesday night meetings at the Bayview Community Center. Some are still trying…
Banned Book Week…
September 23-30th is Banned Books Week. Google Book Search has joined forces with the American Library Association to highlight 42 classics, including To Kill a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…