Category: Politics
Why so few County Administrator candidates?
Let’s face the Escambia County Administrator job is no plum job for anyone, especially if you have no roots in the area. Just this decade…
Before you post a comment
Before you post a comment, consider this: * Keep it clean. Comments that are obscene, vulgar or sexually oriented will be removed. Creative spelling of…
Bad press: Barack Obama
Obama’s Shades of Truth Does Barack Obama embroider his own history for political effect? Where Illinois’ Sidewalks End Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama blew…
Fish House: GOP HQ
If you’re a GOP presidential candidate and you need to be where the GOP’s wine, dine and plot their next coup…and you need $$$, you…
NY Times and Miller endorse McCain
Both the New York Times and local Congressman Jeff Miller have come out in support of Sen. John McCain for the GOP presidential nomination. WEAR…
County administrator candidate resigned last week
Randy Oliver,the City Manager for Peoria, Ill. resigned last week. Oliver is a finalist for the Escambia County job. Here is what the blog “The…
Bay Co. airport in court
A three-judge panel from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan will hear arguments from three organizations that challenged the Federal Aviation Administration’s approval…
Paul censured
Escambia County School Board did the right thing in censuring – i.e. expressing its disapproval of – Superintendent Jim Paul for his DUI arrest. Censure…
FL Attorney General on radio
Bill McCollum will be on IN Your Head Radio today to discuss Guiliani campaign and the interim state grand jury report on gang violence. NewsRadio…
Campaign Theme songs
Sen. John McCain has a new campaign song, “Take a Chance on Me,” by the Swedish disco grouo Abba. For some reason, his old song…
Bush and GOP Congress killed US economy
There are some startling numbers that show how badly the Bush Administration and the GOP-controlled Congress hurt the US economy. Unlike Reagan, Bush and the…
New wrinkle in healthcare
Have you been late on paying your medical bills? Well, hospitals may start refusing treatment based on your credit history. A new medical bill payment…
What ever happened to condo-hotels?
Last spring, Pensacola Beach, the Santa Rosa Island Authority and the Escambia county commission debated and studied for weeks whether to allow the new lodging…
Marty, give us a solution
Pensacola City Councilman Marty Donovan spoke to the PNJ on Sunday about the red clays discharges into Pensacola Bay during and after heavy rain storms….
Stay civil, stay on point
We’ve got a few people writing multiple comments on the Paul posts under a variety names. All are attacking Jim Paul. Obviously, the intent is…
Studer profile
I realize that are those out there who may be wondering why Quint Studer would counsel Jim Paul on alcoholism recovery. Here is a profile…
Escambia County School ZT policy
Here is what the Escambia County student manual says about drugs under Zero Tolerance. There is no special section for alcohol: Drugs: The unlawful use,…
PNJ has more on Paul
The Saturday edition of the Pensacola News Journal covers how the Escambia County school board did not mention Superintendent Jim Paul’s DUI arrest. It also…
NYT moderates reader comments
The gannettblog reports that The New York Times now has 11 staffers reading and approving online reader comments before they’re published, MediaShift says. Jonathan Landman,…
Selling wrong building
After reading the daily newspaper’s story on the Ice Pilots offering to buy the Pensacola Civic Center, I think we are selling the wrong facility….
