Alex Sink has launched a new ad in which she focuses on opponent Rick Scott’s past problems. She begins by stating that she knows “Floridians have a lot of questions about Rick…
Oops, GOP uses wrong figures in slamming Sink
The Republican Party has been caught using incorrect figures in trying to slam Democrat Alex Sink, who is running for governor against Rick Scott. The ad, which stopped running Monday, has two…
Latest BP claims stats, Candy man delivers
Claims for Lost Profits by Industry Fishing: Claims paid 11837–$ 253,976,900.00 Food, Beverage and Lodging: Claims paid 13763– $ 179,184,100.00 Rental Property(ies): Claims paid 7643– $ 85,219,800.00 Retail, Sales and Service: Claims…
Bed Tax down 5 percent YTD, but 29-46 percent June, July
Through August 2010, tourist development tax collections (also known as bed taxes) are down only 5 percent, according to the Clerk of Courts/Comptroller Ernie Lee Magaha. However, June and July were terrible…
Rubio to eat at Dog House Deli
Thursday, Sept. 30 – 11 a.m……will he pay cash or use a credit card?
Mabus report fails to recommend BP Go Zone
The U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, held a press conference at Sanders Beach today to tout his plan for the recovery of the Gulf Coast from the BP oil disaster….
Escambia County children living in poverty percentage soars
The percentage of children under age 5 living below poverty level soared in 2009 from 29.3 to 38.6 percent. The state percentage is 24.8 percent, according to the latest data from the…
Local income falls for third consecutive year
Household incomes fell in Escambia County for the third consecutive year and are barely ahead of the 2005 figures, according 2009 American Community Survey which was just released by the US Census…
BP’s Safety Division
According to the NY Times, Â BP will soon add a safety division to better prepare for such disasters as the Deep Horizon explosion. BP Managing Director Robert Dudley is quoted as saying…
Missing Child Not Seen In Years
ECSO Press Release: On August 30, 2010 the Escambia Sheriff’s Office responded to 6101 Chicago Ave in reference to a missing person. Contact was made with William McShane (37) who stated that…
Once upon a time, Rusty Wells moonlighted, too
The daily newspaper is questioning the (unofficial or official?) policy that allowed firefighters to conduct their side businesses while on duty. The PNJ asks in its editorial, “Was Sumner the only firefighter…
Meet MacArthur Foundation winners
The Washington Post has a slideshow of the 23 individuals who won MacArthur Foundation fellowships ($500K). They include three physicists, three denizens of Cambridge, a sculptor and a type designer, a jazz…
Florida second in gun smuggling category
Hugh Wiggins, who has been indicted in Mississippi for being an accessory after the fact in the Billings’ murders, smuggled the weapons used in the crime to a friend near Pascagoula. Since…
News: baby fish proliferate
Mobile Press Register reports that scientists have found baby snapper, trout, grouper and grunt everywhere. Early results from an annual count of juvenile fish in grass beds scattered around the northern Gulf…
“You, me, be drug free!â€
It may be grammatically incorrect, but the Superintendent Malcolm Thomas’ administration has the slogan for its new drug awareness campaign: “You, me, be drug free!†Hopefully the sentence won’t be on the…
Southwest to buy Air Tran
Press Release: Southwest Airlines [NYSE:LUV] announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of AirTran Holdings, Inc. [NYSE:AAI], the parent company of…
Feds load up for case against BP
Feds are preparing their cases against BP, Transocean and Haliburton. Read Times Picayune (cool graphic).
Pensacola orphan soars to success
I came across this obituary of a Pensacola orphan that was an aviator and contemporary of Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran. She was orphaned and reared as a foster child, desperately poor, in…
Is Oil Really Breaking Down?
A Greenpeace boat is housing a team of researchers near the site of the Deep Horizon disaster. The group is hoping to discover if the oil is being eaten up by the…
Rubio: 2010’s Katherine Harris?
That’s what political consultant Chris Ingram calls GOP senate candidate Marco Rubio on his blog, Irreverent View. Ingram writes that Rubio “told me of a $4K-$5K charge on his RPOF credit card…
