According to today’s PNJ, Commissioner Gene Valentino will introduce a resolution at the BOCC’s Jan. 7 meeting to cease funding the Arts Council of Northwest Florida and will instead support giving the…
Top 20 Viral Videos of 2009
Sun-Sentinel put this list together. This one is my favorite: View the entire list.
50 things we learned in 2009
The Tampa Tribune publishes each year 50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year. Here is one that caught my attention: Grumpy people think more clearly because…
Cool Chart for ’00s
As only the New York Times can do: see for yourself.
Billings case recap: Early Thursday Evening, July 9
I’ve been reviewing the various reports on the home invasion and murder of Byrd and Melanie Billings and have put together a narrative of the first eights days of the case, including…
Buzz: Nothing on credit cards
The county audit of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida didn’t cover the credit cards the group processed for local artists. We are still get emails and calls on people owed as…
P’cola White Squirrels make NYT
NYT Science Q&A: There are an incredible number of white squirrels living here in Pensacola, Fla., on the Gulf Coast. Are they albinos? How would it be genetically possible to have so…
Murzin weighs in on Sinclair-Mediacom spat
Chairman Julius Genachowski Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, S.W., Room 8-B201 Washington, D.C. 20554 Re: Mediacom v. Sinclair Retransmission Consent Dispute Dear Chairman Genachowski, I am concerned that Sinclair Broadcast Group…
Former Pensacolian fights for victims
The New York Post has an article about NY State trooper Sayeh Rivazfar de rives crusade against sex offenders. She is pushing for push for a NY state law allowing authorities to…
Arts Council audit recommends no more funds
We’ve obtained a draft copy of the audit of the Arts Council of Northwest Florida that was conducted by the Escambia County Clerk/Comptroller. The audit was sent to County Administrator Bob McLaughlin…
Nodine has pot issue
Two days before Christmas, county employees found a “leafy, green, plant-like material” believed to be marijuana in a county-owned pickup truck issued to Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine. Nodine has been to…
In-school suspension improves stat
In 2007-2008, Escambia County had 7,482 out-of-school suspensions. All those days were counted as unexcused absences and led to the School District being ranked 15th out of 67 school districts for highest…
New Blog look, new rules
I’ve been working on this new theme. It is simpler than my earlier versions, but it has several features that I like. The blog now was an iPhone application for those readers…
PNJ headline misleading
Received an email from Mort O’Sullivan on yesterday’s UWF Board of Trustees meeting concerning the Community Maritime Park. O’Sullivan writes that today’s PNJ headline (“Museum proposal rejected by UWF trustees”) is misleading….
Boston Globe: Decade in pictures
Call it what you will, “the noughties”, “the two-thousands” or something else, the first decade of the 21st century (2000-2009) is now over. Looking back on the past ten years through news…
Derek finds possible Sunshine violation
Derek Cosson and Progressive Pensacola requested the emails of the Escambia County Consolidation Study Commission (ECCSC) and he have uncovered communications which, in his words, appear to violate Florida’s Government in the…
Buzz: missing credit card payments
We are hearing that artists and some of the smaller arts groups were using the Arts Council to process credit card payments and those payments had not been passed on to the…
Rev. May: Our work has just begun
Yesterday, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church reached an agreement to purchase the Brownsville Middle School. The church had an anonymous donor contribute $200,000 to met the asking price of Superintendent Malcolm Thomas of…
Story behind the Peoples closure
Peoples First was headquartered in Panama City. The News Herald reported on the closure of the bank and Mississippi-based Hancock Bank winning the FDIC bidding process for the bank. For most of…
PNJ editorial misses the point
The PNJ scolds Rev. May and his church today. Once again the daily newspaper fails to understand the political moves being played. During the city charter debate, the PNJ let itself be…
