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 Sabine, the one in Cuba). Fighters who…
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 message is filled with half-truths. Dear Pensacola…
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, to at least five more cities, according…
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 important thing is the story can’t be…
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, Beck’s apocalyptic forecasts and ominous conspiracies became…
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 at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker…
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 Cantonment. International Paper will provide lunch for…
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 Will Call Sports Grille is part 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 at their school. He disagreed with our…
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 Internet,” continues to use its 1987 web…
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 after a local prostitute he developed feelings…
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 is simple: Head out to the beach,…
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 that he didn’t think required reporting to…
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. The $1,000 grant is for an Environment-themed…
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 wins and “it doesn’t matter if you…
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 Home Builder’s (NAHB) Green Certified neighborhood. Paragon…
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 events, sponsored by the Department of Environmental…
Mobile makes Top 10 Cities of the Future
In its first ever ranking of America’s Cities of the Future 2011/2012, fDi Magazine ranked Mobile in the No. 10 spot among small cities defined as those with a population of 100,000…
Busting Tax Myths
The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) member papers are doing what they do best: providing an antidote to the myths that the mainstream media, local television news and politicians perpetuate about tax…
Scott lawyer: My facts were wrong
St. Pete Times’ political blog, The Buzz, reports that Gov. Rick Scott’s attorney misstated to the Florida Supreme Court that the state had spent $110 million of the $131 million appropriated by…
