Just days after netting a huge crowd for the catch and release of the team logo, Pensacola’s Double-A baseball team, the Blue Wahoos, launch their official team website, www.BlueWahoos.com. The site features…
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More Than 60 Bunnies Left on Colorado Highway
It’s a bizarre case of abandoned animals in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dozens of white rabbits apparently were dumped along the side of a road. There is no link to Deluna Fest, but…
Sam I Am The President
Pensacola City Council members voted for their new leadership on tiny, folded ballots this morning. Let’s throw their cards on the table. Councilman Sam Hall beat out Councilman John Jerralds in a…
Fact Sheet: Returning Heroes and Wounded Warrior Tax Credits
From the White House: In August, President Obama called on Congress to enact tax credits that will help get veterans back to work. The Returning Heroes Tax Credit provides businesses that hire…
Bus workers union releases grievances
Open letter to Escambia County Commissioners: Dear Commissioners – please see the attached grievances filed by ECAT employees just in recent days. Please note that the Union would be happy to provide…
Libertarian Reluctantly Calls Fire Department
Libertarian makes a call, refuses to pay for it. WWRPD…What Would Ron Paul Do?
Hall elected Pensacola City Council prez
Sam Hall is the new Pensacola City Council president. Ronald Townsend is the vice-president. Official statement from Mayor Ashton Hayward, “I want to congratulate City Council members Sam Hall and Ronald Townsend…
Education Buzz: Secret meeting fiasco, EDS skinny
The secret meeting that Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas held last Friday to win support for his policies dealing with abandoned school properties failed miserably, according to my sources. Instead of winning…
Gingrich: Get any job that teaches you to show up on Monday
Today at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Newt Gingrich proposed radical new ideas to solve poverty in America, including changes in child labor laws, getting rid of the unionized janitors and  having “one…
Buzz: Baby Gaetz fails to oust mayor
Found this little tidbit in Northwest Florida Daily News. Pat Bates has been reelected as the mayor in Altamonte Springs, despite local State Rep. Matt Gaetz campaigning against her. According to the…
Hooray, BP is running more tourism ads
BP Press Release: BP announced today that it is expanding its Gulf Coast tourism advertising campaign with new ads highlighting this year’s successful tourism season debuting Monday, November 21st in broadcast markets…
Can’t find CRA vote to hire own attorney
I have gone through the CRA agendas for the period Jan 2011 through May 2011. I can’t find any items for discussion on hiring Doug Sale or any outside counsel. In fact,…
CRA only has four rules
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) OF THE CITY OF PENSACOLA POLICIES AND PROCEDURES (amended January 24, 2011) 1. General Unless expressly provided otherwise by law or action of the Agency, ordinances, policies and…
Are foster children being medicated like schizophrenics?
 The New York Times cited a study published in the Pediatric Journal that appears to reflect that. And keep in mind: All of the programs the studied children came from draw on…
Governance by Assumption
The Pensacola City Council and its Community Redevelopment Agency are legislative bodies. They act based on their votes. Chairpersons aren’t given executive powers. Those only fall solely to the mayor. What’s the…
Alarming Climate Change Effects on FL
by Les Coleman, Florida News Service– MIAMI, Fla. – “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” is out, and none too soon: 2011 has been one…
Rise & Fall of Cain
CafePress is an e-commerce platform that powers user-designed merchandise. With an average of over 137,000 new designs uploaded every week, many of them are political in nature. As a result, CafePress is…
Veteran Affairs launches Spouse Telephone Support program
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a telephone support program to help the spouses of returning Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, after a pilot telephone support program showed significant reduction in stress…
More Army suicides
The Army released on Friday, Nov. 18 suicide data for the month of October. Among active-duty soldiers, there were 17 potential suicides: one has been confirmed as suicide and 16 remain under…
Runaway CRA spending
The chairman of Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Pensacola has run up legal bills with the help of the former CRA administrator without a board vote approving the expenditure or…