Category: Politics

About half the population in Kentucky does not have dental insurance, and 1 in 10 are missing all their teeth. The NY Times article fails…

Daily News reports: Walton County Finance Director Bill Imfeld dropped out of the sheriff’s race this month after James Murray, an attorney representing the Sheriff’s…

News Herald reports that U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak told “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis on Wednesday he would not remove himself from Francis’…

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Tuesday to allow broadcasters to also own a newspaper in the same market. While Sinclair – which owns WEAR…

Barack Obama has captured the hearts of many young voters who are looking for a change in Washington. But will he be a catalyst for…

Mobile Press Register reports: The Alabama state docks saw record cargo volume in 2007, driven primarily by a 50 percent increase in container cargo and…

Miami Herald reports that Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed three high-powered lawyers to file a class-action lawsuit against the insurance industry on behalf of state…

The latest timetable for the Community Maritime Park calls for the requests for proposal from the Master Developer candidates not to be due until April…

That’s what the Pensacola News Journal reports today (DOT defends runoff efforts). I think the more accurate statement would be: ” Listen we bid out…

From San Antonio Express-News: I was 7, a gangly schoolboy in Corpus Christi, when word came that my dad, a pilot for the Navy’s famed…

Panama City Beach has a Community Redevelopment Agency to take care of its infrastructure needs. It can do so since its beach residents and businesses…

There is a buzz that BOCC is considering selling the Pensacola Civic Center. It sleeps 6000, ten bathrooms, large family room, no yard to mow,…

Two months after I wrote about the Chamber’s magnet program, the daily newspaper writes that they are popular: Magnets showing up everywhere, and chamber hopes…

Panama City has an Intermodal Distribution Center to go with its port. It’s an industrial park near Hwy 231 for companies who agree to use…

The Perdido Bay Youth Sports Association will get its ball park. Escambia County commissioners on Thursday approved, by a 4-1 vote, the purchase of 217…

Three days have you read it here on the blog, Pensacola News Journal reports Touart fighting for his pension. The county commissioners didn’t take the…

In Springdale, Ark., a referendum passed on July 11, 2006 to build a baseball park by extending a 1% sales tax. The vote was close…

Here is how another city moved quickly to get its baseball park built: In Billings, Montana, city residents passed a referendum for a new park…

From Mobile Press Register Mobile area employers expect 2008 to start much stronger than 2007 in terms of hiring, according to the results of the…

I’ve been trying to figure out what is the Touart game plan with this last minute move to get on the 12/13 BOCC agenda: 1….