Category: Politics
Oliver Goes On EDATE With Women
The salad was light and the tea was sweet, but conversation waded immediately into deeper waters: politics. That’s the way the League of Women Voters…
Christian travel agency tries get Casey Anthony to leave state
We got this weird email today: Dear Sir/Madam, It has recently come to our attention that accused child murderer Casey Anthony has taken residence in…
County Commission primaries – Robertson, May, Archer lead in funds
The Escambia County Commission candidates are gearing up for the Republican and Democrat primaries. The District 1 Republican primary has incumbent Wilson Robertson, who has…
Morgan outraises Powell, builds war chest
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan raised over $17,000 in the last quarter of 2011 for his re-election campaign. Republican opponent John Powell received $12,850 and…
Santorum: I’m a threat to the GOP establishment
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum tells Bob Schieffer why he thinks Mitt Romney is just a part-time conservative, and why he views himself as an “anti-establishment”…
Huntsman Out
According to the Times Caucus, Jon Huntsman will announce today that that he is ending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsing Romney….
Kaiser leaving Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart CEO Will Join Utah Health System Pensacola, FL (Jan. 13, 2012) — Laura Kaiser, president and CEO of Sacred Heart Health System, will…
Dirty Smurfs
Escambia County officials have no interest in seeing a recycling center on a collection of remediated Superfund sites. They also don’t want to see any…
The ‘Make Us Whole’ Boat Ramps
How will we be ‘made whole’ following the 2010 oil spill? For starters, how about some boat ramps for $4.4 million? Over the next few…
Bookies like Romney, bet win streak will continue
Europes largest betting company Paddy Power have installed Mitt Romney as 2/5 favourite for the South Carolina primary after the former Massachusetts Governor romped home…
Insiders stacked advisory vote in favor of Yaz
The Project On Government Oversight has requested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) disregard a joint advisory committee’s support of the controversial birth control…
Commissioner’s Delay Tourism-tax Decision
The Escambia County Commission will wait until the summer to decide what governance model they’ll go with when it comes to tourism tax dollars. Presently,…
Romney in Florida Today
Leading in the polls, Mitt Romney has skipped through South Carolina to campaign here today in West Palm. Â VIDEO A record turnout is being expected,…
Oil Spill Restoration Meeting
The second in a series of meetings to explore early oil-spill restoration will be held tonight at the University of West Florida. The Deepwater Horizon…
Buzz: Hotel owners and Chamber to ask for delay
The Hotel owners who have been pushing for the tourism marketing and the management of the bed tax dollars to be taken away from the…
SRIA vendetta against DeLuna Fest continues
The daily newspaper published on its front page what they describe as a dispute between the DeLuna Fest organizers and the Santa Rosa Island Authority…
They have to get to know you first…
The Washington Post’s Michael Tackett advances the theory that Republicans reject their candidates the first time around. Maybe it’s the idea that they are looking…
What is EDATE?
When voters head to local polling places Jan. 31 for Florida’s GOP primary, they’ll also be asked to weigh in on re-upping EDATE, or the…
Fox Sports calls out Warrington and Crack Alley
Fox Sports says that Warrington is “rife with violence, drugs and poverty” in its profile and interview of Alabama football star Trent Richardson. The Escambia…
Video: Romney momentum
‘Tonight We Made History’ Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, adding to a first-place finish in last week’s Iowa…
