Category: News
Stafford to testify before Senate Ethics and Elections Committee
Escambia County Supervisor of Elections, David Stafford, past president of the Florida State Association of Supervisors of Elections, scheduled to testify next Monday before the…
Neighboorhood Revitalization Grant
City of Pensacola press release: Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward was on hand Wednesday as Wells Fargo awarded a $50,000 Priority Markets Initiative Grant to…
Escambia tourism up 12 percent
Press Release: Tourism in Escambia County is presently setting all-time lodging revenue records for FY 2012-2013 to date, with lodging revenues generated in October and…
Miami has gun buy-back program
In an effort to curb illegal guns and gun violence, Miami police is holding its first 2013 gun buyback operation of the year. Beginning on…
Did Gov. Scott knowingly exaggerate Obamacare costs
The Miami Heralds’ Naked Politics Blog is reporting that Gov. Rick Scott may have knowingly overstated the impact of the Affordable Care Act on the…
Library Focus Groups
Escambia County press release: The West Florida Public Library System is looking for individuals interested in participating in focus groups to help shape the future…
Rubio explains why he voted against fiscal cliff deal. Fails to mention because he wants to be prez
I got his email from U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL): Rick, The federal government has a spending problem. Simple math shows it to be the…
Miller is only FL Congressman with a chairmanship. FL shunned by Boehner and crew
With the exception of our Congressman Jeff Miller (R-Chumuckla), Florida’s 27-member House delegation was shut out of chairmanships of any of the 21 permanent committees…
Hobby Lobby employee touts generous pay and benefits
The Daily Beast reported last Friday that national retailer Hobby Lobby became the largest corporation to defy new Affordable Care Act regulations, after the Oklahoma-based…
Alfresco food court to open first food trailer in February
Alfresco’s, the food court on the corner of Palafox and Main streets, is close to opening, at least partially. Two Airstream trailers are being placed…
Teacher quits, refuses to create generation of test takers (video)
Fifteen-year veteran elementary teacher says “I quit”. Parents need to know what is being done to their children – and it’s not the teacher’s fault!…
State lawmakers have three bills to ban texting while driving. Ford sponsors one of them
Three on the most popular bill in front of the Florida Legislature, according to the website Florida Current, concern the banning people from texting while…
Must-see: 60 Minutes covers Times-Picayune tonight
MorÂley Safer reports tonight on the New Orleans’ daily newspaper, Times-Picayune, reducÂing its print version to three days a week. It should be good. –…
Pick Your All-NYC basketball team
New York City has had some of the best high school basketball players in the nation. The NY Times lets you pick your all-star team….
Another Escambia County Claim to Shame: Child Deaths
The Statewide Child Abuse Death Review Committee has released its annual report. Escambia County is one of the worst in the state with 100 total…
Another Tea Party failure: Boehner still Speaker. Darn, the angry, old white coalition is losing power
For the last couple days, the Tea Party has been bragging that it had the votes to unseat Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) as the Speaker…
Sarah Zieman Martinez headed to D.C.
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio has announced that Alberto Martinez, who headed Romney’s campaign in Florida and worked for Rubio in the state legislature, is joining…
IN Cover Story Puts a Face on Area Homicides
Murders, shootings, assaults, rapes…they too quickly become just numbers, one-day headlines lost in the flood of news of Justin Beiber’s tattoos, Lady Gaga’s outfits and…
R.I.P. Distinctive Kitchens
A downtown retail mainstay since 2004, Distinctive Kitchens has closed. The doors have been locked for weeks. A “Closed for Inventory” sign has been on…
Now the bad news about fiscal check. Your paycheck will be hit
The Payroll Tax Cut, which reduced your share of payroll taxes by 2 percent and increased your net pay, expired on Dec. 31, 2012 and…



