Buzz: Battle over interim city attorney
Mayor Ashton Hayward wants to hire the Messer Law Firm as the interim city attorney for $10K per month. Jim Messer is a former assistant…
90 Minutes Left To Vote On BP Or Bank Of America For Worst Company In America!
As you read this, Bank of America and BP are locked in deadly combat in the Worst Company In America octagon. The clock runs out…
GOP governors and lawmakers cut environmental protections
NY Times: Maine Gov. Paul LePage wants to open up three million acres of the North Woods for development. Florida Gov. Rick Scott has proposed…
State round-up
Two news stories from the Florida newspapers grabbed my attention this morning: Miami Herald has an excellent series on the Bay of Pigs (not Little…
BP letter to Gulf residents
This is from the text of the full page ads that BP is running in daily newspapers across the South. I hate spin doctors. Their…
Deal Chicken coming to Pensacola?
GannettBlog reports: “With online daily deal sites like Groupon seizing more market share, Gannett appears to be expanding its seven-month-old version, Deal Chicken in Phoenix,…
Quote of the day
From Will Dana, Rolling Stone managing editor: “A great story is a great story. The platform matters but it’s not the most important thing. The…
Why Glenn Beck lost it
This column is from 10 days ago, but it is the most popular article on the Washington Post website. ….as the recession began to ease,…
Feds halt online poker
LA Times reports The three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, were shut down Friday by the FBI. Eleven executives…
Badlands IV, IP edition
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and International Paper will host an “Operation Clean Sweep†event today at the Carver Park at 208 Webb Street in…
Pensacola City Council agenda out
The Pensacola City Council has two nominations for its Pension Board: UWF Economics professor Richard Hawkins and former City Attorney Rusty Wells. Former GM of…
Godzilla silent on SESIR
Escambia County School Board member Jeff Bergosh has been an ardent defender of Superintendent Malcolm Thomas and how Tate High officials handled the sexual assault…
Buzz: City launches new website Monday
I’m hearing the city will launch its new website on Monday, April 18. Meanwhile gulf1.net, which bills itself as “Northwest Florida’s Conservative Home On The…
Local Prostitute Steals Alabama Man’s Heart, Then His Money
Any “date” that starts at the Cutty Sark Bar will not end well: Press Release: An Alabama man was beaten and robbed early Thursday evening…
Messages in sand
CNNiReport wants to hear from locals living along the Gulf Coast about their feelings on the Deepwater Horizon disaster a year later. The CNN challenge…
Slayton’s bizarre tale shows teachers at risk
At yesterday’s Escambia County School Board workshop, board member Bill Slayton, the former principal of Woodham High School, gave a weird example of an incident…
Inspiration for Escambia finalists named
Press release: Vote for your favorite Education-themed community project PENSACOLA, FL – Unite Escambia has announced five finalists for the first Inspiration for Escambia grant….
Viewpoint: Little League Teaches the Facts of Life
Viewpoint by Jeff DeWeese: For parents there is no more transformative experience than the introduction to Little League Baseball. Gone are the days of everyone…
Pensacola to have first NAHB Green Certified Neighborhood
Press Release: Fiddler’s Walk, located on West Roberts Road one block west of Pine Forest Road, is soon to become Pensacola’s first National Association of…
UWF Earth Day
Press Release: The University of West Florida commemorates Earth Day and the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with three special events. The…
