Sports fans, listen up. Alumni football is coming to Pensacola. The Gridiron Alumni is planning several alumni football games. The first 40 players to sign up get to play and the first…
What is EDATE?
When voters head to local polling places Jan. 31 for Florida’s GOP primary, they’ll also be asked to weigh in on re-upping EDATE, or the Escambia County Ad Valorem Tax Exemption. But…
Something for Gen X nerds to do at lunch…
Where’s Morrissey? A weird picture of Morrissey (looking a little more melcancholy than Waldo usually does, of course)  has been hidden in Google Earth, standing outside the Salford Lads Club in England.  The Smith’s…
UWF make U.S News & World Report’s Top Online Education Program rankings
Press Release: The University of West Florida was named in the first-ever edition of Top Online Education Program rankings by U.S. News & World Report. These rankings were created in response to…
Stat of the Day
In Escambia County, 8.4 out of every 1,000 children is in foster care. The state average is 5.7 per 1,000.
Fox Sports calls out Warrington and Crack Alley
Fox Sports says that Warrington is “rife with violence, drugs and poverty” in its profile and interview of Alabama football star Trent Richardson. The Escambia High graduate tells the reporter that three…
Video: Romney momentum
‘Tonight We Made History’ Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night, adding to a first-place finish in last week’s Iowa caucuses and establishing himself as the man…
Wilson Robertson/Forrest Gibbs hiring – Top Scandal of 2011
The blog readers have spoken – with 863 votes cast. The top local scandal of 2011 was Escambia County Commissioner Wilson Robertson helping his supporter Forrest Gibbs get a job with the…
The Sam Hall Question
It seems Pensacola City Council President Sam Hall isn’t out of the woods yet when it comes to the free-speech debate he sparked when attempting to have Father Nathan Monk removed from…
Syrah: The Perfect Wine for Winter
By David White—- All wines are appropriate for all seasons. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a simple white or crisp rosé in the winter, and big reds work all year long. But…
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
January is National Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, reminding us all to be aware of the disease. The American Cancer Society’s most recent estimates for cervical cancer in the United State for 2011…
Oil Spill Health Study Comes to Town
Following the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers of various stripes have been studying the disaster’s possible impacts. What did the spill do to the environment? What did the…
Got Gold?
The American Coin Buyers Guild (ACBG) will be in Pensacola from Monday, Jan. 16 to Saturday Jan. 21. At the Holiday Inn located at 7816 N. Davis Hwy. Hours are: Â 9 a.m….
From New Hampshire: Slow but Steady
The Manchester Union Leader is reporting slow but steady voter turn out in the state’s largest city and other polling places statewide. UNION LEADER Primary Blog Meanwhile the Times says that while…
From the Obvious Dept: New study shows BP oil spill was avoidable
The risk management company Licata Risk Advisors calls the BP Gulf oil spill “the worst risk management story, and the best risk management story.” The company believes the spill illustrates how a…
New CRA Leadership
Pensacola’s Community Redevelopment Agency has a new chairman and vice chairman. The CRA board—comprised of the Pensacola City Council—chose its new leadership Jan. 9. Councilman Brian Spencer is the CRA’s new chairman,…
Democrats respond: “We can do better”
Hello, I’m State Representative Ron Saunders from Key West. I have the honor of serving as Democratic Leader in the Florida House of Representatives. It has been said that those who cannot…
ACLU responds to Scott’s address
Press Release: Today is the first day of the 2012 Florida Legislative Session. The following statement on the first day of session and Governor Scott’s State of the State Address is from…
Video: Voters, Media Descend on N.H. Polling Spots
Most of the Republican presidential candidates are out today, trying to secure more votes as New Hampshire voters go to the polls in the nation’s first presidential primary. (Jan. 10) Source: Associated…
State of State Address
The document that Governor’s Office sent out was all caps. I changed the case, but didn’t catch all the proper nouns. You will have to self-edit…which is what you have to do…