Category: Politics
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…
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…
Rise & Fall of Cain
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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…
Supercommittee Super Failure?
Bipartisanship continues to gridlock Congress. The Supercommittee that was to propose cuts and savings to the federal budget will not meet its deadline, and the…
Another bizarre GOP debate
The Republican Party’s presidential nomination process has become a weird reality show. There hasn’t been anything like it since Anna Nicole Smith had her show…
Don’t count out Obama in 2012
President Barack Obama is doing far better at attracting grass-roots financial support this year than his Republican rivals, according to new contribution data. He’s doing…
Cain visited Holy Land…uh, the one in Orlando
To beef up his foreign policy experience, GOP presidential front-runner Herman Cain visited yesterday the Holy Land Experience in Orlando.
Catholic Church buys Crystal Cathedral
An Orange County, Califorina bankruptcy judge ruled this week that the Crystal Cathedral, the one built by Rev. Robert Schuller, will be sold for $57.5…
Raisin’ Cain says Taliban doing bad things in Libya
Presidential candidate Herman Cain now is an expert on foreign policy. He warns that the Taliban is infiltrating the new Libyan government. Never mind that…
Haters
The FBI released its list of last year’s hate crimes. While the City of Pensacola did not report any hate crimes, Escambia County reported three….
Take Me to Your Leader
Before settling into the Thanksgiving holidays, the Pensacola City Council will select a new leadership to take it through the next year. Council members choose…
In context: Rick Perry’s new attack on Obama (video)
A recent campaign ad for GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry makes the claim that President Obama thinks “Americans are lazy.” Scott Pelley puts that claim…
One-in-four Escambia Co. children live in poverty
Escambia County has one out of every four children living in poverty–17,470 children, 28.1 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A recently released brief…
The Angry Parade
It’s becoming a regular thing, the protest parades down Palafox. A few weeks ago, the organic outcries were somewhat warm and fuzzy with a snare…
SAO: No criminal charges to be filed against Robertson
State Attorney Bill Eddins’ office has announced that no criminal charges will be filed against Escambia County Commissioner Wilson Robertson in regards to him using…
Benetton unveils ad campaign with world leaders kissing (video)
Clothing company United Colors of Benetton unveils a controversial ad campaign featuring manipulated photographs of world leaders kissing. Source: Reuters
Morgan Stanley fined for lying – $3.3 million
The Securities and Exchange Commission today yesterday Morgan Stanley Investment Management with violating securities laws in a fee arrangement that repeatedly charged a fund and…
Taj Mahal judge to resign
St. Pete Times’ Lucy Morgan has the scoop: 1st District Court Judge Paul M. Hawkes is resigning from the court to avoid an ethics trial…
Florida ECO funding nearly doubled in 2010
The National Institute for Money in State Politics has issued a staff report on how independent political spending changed in Florida since the U.S. Supreme…
