by Les Coleman, Florida News Service– MIAMI, Fla. – “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” is out, and none too soon: 2011 has been one…
Rise & Fall of Cain
CafePress is an e-commerce platform that powers user-designed merchandise. With an average of over 137,000 new designs uploaded every week, many of them are political in nature. As a result, CafePress is…
Veteran Affairs launches Spouse Telephone Support program
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a telephone support program to help the spouses of returning Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, after a pilot telephone support program showed significant reduction in stress…
More Army suicides
The Army released on Friday, Nov. 18 suicide data for the month of October. Among active-duty soldiers, there were 17 potential suicides: one has been confirmed as suicide and 16 remain under…
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 a board vote approving the expenditure or…
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 finger-pointing has already begun. Manchin: Supercommitte must…
Why You Tube is better than Match.com
Actress Mila Kunis was the date of Sgt. Scott Moore at the Marine Corps Ball in Greenville NC Â Friday night. He invited her via YOUTUBE
Do you pay first?
What’s funnier? That they charge for throwing rocks? Or that they trust you to ’fess up? I wonder what the taxes subsidize. Travel and Leisure…
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 on E. Things got emotional at the…
Personhood amendment has some support in Florida
The defeat of a similar state constitutional amendment in Mississippi has deflated the Personhood advocates in Florida. They have their own website, personhoodfl.com. The group needs 676,811 valid petitions for ballot access….
Second Mile board members got lucrative PSU contracts
Deadspin reports Second Mile board members landed fat contracts from Penn State. Poole Anderson, the construction company run by Second Mile chairman Bob Poole, earned $25 million from the school in 2009…
Shocking, calm brutality of UC Davis cops
This video of a policeman calmly – almost proudly – spraying student protesters at UC Davis has bugged me since I first saw it. Campus police had come to tear down tents…
‘The Arm of Justice’ calls Pensacola mayor’s action ‘unconscionable’
Letter sent to Mayor Ashton Hayward: Mayor Hayward: This is to notify you that the unanimous opinion of the membership and governing administration of The Arm of Justice of the tactics used…
Guest Viewpoint: Give Thanks for Occupy (GTO)
By Tyger Ricard We are told, and have come to accept, that the Occupy movement lacks focus, direction, and purpose. How can a group be successful without a linear plan and a…
Raw Video: At Least 15 Reported Killed in Syria
Syrian troops stormed a central town and a northwestern region in search of regime opponents on Saturday, activists said, a day after the government agreed in principle to allow the Arab League…
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 better than he did in 2008 when…
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.
Lego Man still in Sarasota police custody. Held without trial.
Amnesty International may have a new case. Ego Leonard — Sarasota’s famed Lego man — has a painted-on smile that must be hiding some serious heartbreak. It looks like the 8-foot-tall fiberglass…
Buzz: Urban Meyer headed to Ohio State University
SportsbyBrooks is reporting Urban Meyer is assembling a coaching staff after agreeing to become the next head football coach at Ohio State. Read more.
Ron Paul: Free Bananas
New parody on Ron Paul…who is a parody btw ‘RON PAUL’ – A Bad Lip Reading SoundBite – watch more funny videos
