Category: Politics
Bay County gets out of Spring break business
Panama City Beach grows up. From News Herald: The Bay County Tourist Development Council this week reaffirmed its intent to get out of the college…
Councilman censured
Fort Walton Beach city council censured one of its members for requesting emails from city employees. Huh? Public records are public – it’s not about…
County wants to know what you think
Press Release: The Escambia County Citizen Survey is underway! TLG Marketing Research, Inc. has started calling residents for their input on County services. This is…
City council misses the point
In an effort to show they are fiscally responsible the Pensacola City Council is delaying its decision on the funds requests for Palafox Pier park…
Landfill lessons
The daily newspaper carries the latest escapades of the Saufley Landfill (Landfill owner jailed, released). There is a lesson here. Escambia County needs a more…
Taking UWF to the next level
There are two ideas being floated out in the community about how to grow the University of West Florida. One is add football. Central Florida,…
Tightest budget year ever?
A News Journal article – this one is on City Council funding the arts and culture – opens with In one of the tightest budget…
Another international symposium coming 2008
2008 Instrumentation Symposium in Pensacola Beach The event is sponsored by the Aerospace, Process Measurement and Control, and Test Measurement divisions of ISA. The event…
Gannett blog
Over the weekend, I ran across this blog on the owner of the Pensacola News Journal, Gannett – gannettblog.blogspot.com. Its editor says in his profile…
Are we in a recession?
The Herald Tribune – Sarasota dares to ask this question. It was their teaser on the story that got my attention: It is a tale…
Landfill missing revenues
The daily newspaper reports today that Allied Waste may owe the county over $1 million in tipping fees. And the county has known about it…
Top Florida Blogs
Florida’s Most Influential Political blogs (per Blognetnews.com) Rank 1 Blast Off! 2 ricksblog.biz 3 Florida Progressive Coalition 4 Pushing Rope 5 Talk To Me 6…