Category: State & National News

Escarosa Coalition on the Homeless, Inc. is getting $31,342 for HMIS Expansion2 and the South Santa Rosa Interfaith Ministries, Inc. $146,632 for Santa Rosa Permanent…

Supervisor of Elections David Stafford shared that there isn’t enough population in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties to create one Florida Senate district. He said…

Gulf Coast Diplomacy Council hosts today the Honorable Safek Pavey, Member of Parliament (Turkey). Last Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and First Lady…

The chairman of the Florida Senate Reapportionment Committee and the designated president of the Florida Senate, Don Gaetz, represents one of only eight districts that…

The cuts to Medicaid that the Florida Legislature is considering will be pushed down to the counties. Escambia County will have to come up with…

Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “pink underwear” for jail inmates may be punishment without legal justification, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a…

Congressman Jeff Miller (R-FL-01) today announced that the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security has successfully reported to the full committee H.R. 2179, which would…

The Gulf Coast Claims Facility, the BP contractor that handles the claims from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, has announced on its website that if the…

CafePress.com is an e-commerce platform for user-designed merchandise. Since November, CafePress has been tracking 2012 election presidential candidate support via The Meter graphs. With an…

With the Republican presidential candidates gearing up for Super Tuesday, Paddy Power have installed former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney as the favourite to win…

Huffington Post reports that during her interview on today’s “Fox & Friends,” Ann Romney attacked former President Bill Clinton for his assertion that George Romney…

After a dialogue that was more about politics than birth control, Democrats have blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama’s order that…

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas sounds like the “Nurse Nazi” in today’s PNJ article about the state legislature cutting funding for school nurses. Despite having doubled the…

Conservative Andrew Breitbart, a larger-than-life author and publisher, died unexpectedly of natural causes in Los Angeles early today. He was 43. Breitbart is the blogger…

PRESS RELEASE TALLAHASSEE, FL – The operations, integrity and national reputation of Florida’s renowned prep sports programs would be plunged into chaos if cynical and…

Romney Narrowly Wins Michigan GOP Primary Mitt Romney narrowly won the Michigan Republican presidential primary Tuesday. The former Massachusetts governor defeated Rick Santorum, who had…

With his wins in Michigan and Arizona, Mitt Romney proved money counts. Using his huge campaign war chest, the former governor from Massachusetts blasted upstart…

Representatives Clay Ford (R-Gulf Breeze), Clay Ingram (R-Pensacola), Matt Gaetz (R-Destin) and Doug Broxson (R-Gulf Breeze) announce they are absolutely opposed to placing the burden…

By the time she was in fourth grade, young Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell knew she wanted to be a fighter pilot. What the now-Air Force major…

Ron Paul stood by a campaign ad that calls Rick Santorum a fake, in the most recent Republican presidential debate Wednesday. Source: CBS