Local competes in pageant formerly known as Junior Miss
Press Release: Caitlin Mosley of Pace arrived in Mobile on Sunday, June 12 to participate in the 54th Distinguished Young Women National Finals. Mosley is…
Local governments scramble on FRS deduction
Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater may have moved up the state’s payday to June 30 to avoid a new law that mandates state workers, teachers…
Buzz: Wave of foreclosures coming
The talk among bankers is that a wave of home foreclosures may hit Pensacola area in the next couple of weeks. As the feds crackdown…
Pensacola-born jazz star blows his horn
Jazz Saxophonist Antoine Knight played to a packed host in Pensacola this past weekend. Knight grew up in Morris Court and Lincoln Park and graduated…
FBI investigating Sansom
Daily News reported last week that the FBI and a federal grand jury are investigating former House Speaker Ray Sansom. At least part of the…
Guilty Pleasure: Casey Anthony trial
Locals have become entralled with the trial of Casey Anthony–which has become a reality version of “CSI” and “Law & Order.” Watching the trial and…
Pensacola makes Huffington Post
Pensacola is the subject of this post by Carolyn Scott, creator, host, writer, ‘The Healthy Voyager’ – Pleasant Pensacola. Scott writes about End of the…
Sick fish?
IN reporter J. Adam Morrison tracked down Dr. Jim Cowan, who has been researching the mysteriously lesions found of Gulf fish. Here is the story…
Why a disparity study?
During the Bulls$%# Decade (2000-2009), the City spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on studies and plans on the inequities of services, facilities and economic…
Hayward wants disparity study
Press Release: Under a proposal announced today, Mayor Ashton Hayward is calling for a full-scale study of the City’s purchasing and contracting practices relating to…
Quote of the day
My daughter Cat Ellis runs every summer a Miracle Camp for kids who battle rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that Cat herself has suffered from since…
Why I do what I do
I received this email yesterday: From: Erin Beckett (Markes) Subject: Jaden Markes It is coming up on the third year that I lost my precious…
Inside Gingrich campaign meltdown
The Daily Beast has the inside scoop on why Newt Gingrich’s top aides bolted en masse Thursday, leaving his campaign in tatters. Peter J. Boyer…
School Board to air thoughts on superintendent
Here is something that will never happen in Pensacola, but it should. The St. Pete Times reports that the Pinellas County School Board wants to…
Palin vs. Bachmann
The GOP presidential primaries could be a lot of fun, especially as the candidates try to out do each in catering to the Tea Party…
Rick Scott – Job-a-nator
Is Gov. Rick Scott taking credit for jobs that he did little for the that to land? St. Pete Times thinks so. It reports Gov….
Okaloosa County Tax Collector resigns
Chris Hughes has announced his resignation as Okaloosa Co. Tax Collector. For the past 4 years, Hughes has been in trouble. A Florida Department of…
Obama-care could be in trouble
LA Times: Skeptical questions from three federal judges in Atlanta suggest they may be ready to declare unconstitutional all or part of the healthcare law…
OPEC talks collapse
Reuters reports that OPEC talks broke down in acrimony on Wednesday without an agreement to raise output after Saudi Arabia failed to convince the oil…
Is it time to dissolve SRIA?
The Santa Rosa Island Authority survived two efforts in the Aughts –or what some in Pensacola are starting to call the “Bull$#% Decade”–to abolish it….
