Category: Politics
City hires big name
The City of Pensacola has landed Thaddeus Cohen as its next Community Development Director. Cohen had been the head of the State’s Department Of Community…
Steel jobs in Mobile
ThyssenKrupp announced Jan. 4 that it is accepting applications for professional jobs at the projected $3.7 billion steel mill that the company is building in…
Who won NH debates?
The Times/CNN blog, Real Clear Politics, believes the winner on the GOP side was Sen. John McCain. the guy with all the mojo in New…
Does the Iowa Caucus matter?
In 2004, Democratic Senator John Kerry got 124 more votes than John Edwards. Kerry went on to win the Democratic presidential nomination and get his…
Elebash has history against Studer, Park
Retired UWF professor C.C. Elebash, who wrote a viewpoint yesterday calling for the City to not build the baseball park, has a long history of…
Sorrell may leave ECUA
Stephen Sorrell, executive director of the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, is a finalist to manage the nation’s largest desalination plant. The plant recently has passed…
Save Our City lives
C.C. Elebash, retired UWF professor and the economic guru for the group formerly known as Save Our City, hasn’t given up his fight to stop…
Census: Florida losing its attraction
The economic boom for the state appears to be over, and Pensacola missed it. Wait a minute. Do adding WalMarts, Walgreens and Starbucks count? Maybe…
Historic Day for PNJ
For the first time in recent memory, the Pensacola News Journal gives credit to WEAR TV 3 for breaking a story. They even link to…
Where Pcola Spiderman is now?
Remember the window cleaner who called himself “Spiderman”. He has moved to Gainesville and is doing very well. Another Pensacola exile that had to go…
Top 10 Tech
The alternative newsweekly NOW has listed the Top 10 Tech Trends of 2007. Apple’s iPhone, FaceBook and Web TV top the list. The iPhone is…
Are McGuire’s dollars illegal?
According to the Treasury Department: “The defacement of currency” is against the law. “Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any…
Test your 2007 news knowledge
South Florida Sun-Sentinel has this quiz on the events of 2007. I missed one. Check it out: Year in review quiz
Should Civic Center be sold?
The word that I am getting is that at least three of the Escambia County commissioners are ready to dump the Pensacola Civic Center and…
Cheesiest UWF ad ever
Found on WEAR TV website. There have got to be better designers on campus.
GB loses fire boat
The Gulf Breeze Volunteer Fire Department’s rescue boat capsized last week while on route to the scene of a barge fire. The Fire Department was…
Navarre-Pensacola Beach road to open mid-2008
Well, sort of. The Daily News reports Panhandle Grading and Pavement Inc. will complete two lanes of the road from Navarre Beach to Opal Beach…
Hugh King resigns as pastor
We had heard about this Monday afternoon. Rev. Hugh King, Jr. told his congregation on Sunday that he was stepping down as their pastor at…
CMPA timeline for RFP
From Ed Spears: 12/28/07: Deadline for comments on the RFP 1/10/08, Morning: Owen Beitsch meetings with Design Criteria Team, UWF, Studer Group, Pelicans, GCAACC representatives,…
