Posted in State & National News

Context Florida: Will Scott bash Obama to win re-election in 2014?

My latest column for the political website Context Florida: People have tired of the Tea Party’s constant haranguing about Obama, its unwillingness to listen and…

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Posted in Caring

IMPACT 100 recruiting members, check it out Nov. 14

IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local women’s philanthropy group, is conducting its annual membership drive for 2014 with a series of open house events….

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Posted in Escambia County

Musical chairmanships at Escambia County Commission

The part of the BCC Nov. 7 meeting that got me the most text messages wasn’t the Patels protesting their near-arrest. No, people were fascinated…

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Posted in Caring

War on Pensacola’s homeless continues

Occupy Pensacola hasn’t disappeared. The group is still fighting to help the homeless in the city of Pensacola. As the weather turns cooler, many of…

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Posted in Escambia County Pensacola Politics

Officer report on Patel incident tells a different story

Nash Patel and his wife had an incident with Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday night when he reported an alleged burglary at his brother-in-law’s…

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Posted in Baseball

Wahoos to hand CMPA check for $491,602

On Friday, Pensacola’s Blue Wahoos, will deliver a check for $491,602 to the Executive Committee of the CMPA. This payment is in addition to the…

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Posted in News

Parade buzz

The city demanded $600 before the engineering dept would work on Pensacola Veterans Parade FDOT permit. Commissioner Lumon May, Sen Greg Evers and Congressman Jeff…

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Posted in Escambia County Pensacola Politics Veterans

Commissioner May comes to aid of parade organizers

The daily newspaper has an article on how the volunteers that have organized the Pensacola Veterans Day believe that they have been given the runaround…

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Posted in Business

NYT writes airports want local chefs

These articles aren’t hard to find. The New York Times’ “In Transit” reports that a number of airports across the country are opening restaurants from…

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Posted in Business

DIB told 900 people attended Palafox Celebration

The Downtown Improvement Board was told yesterday that 900 people attended the joint DIB-City of Pensacola event on Oct. 24 to celebrate that Palafox Street…

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Posted in Business

New interim publisher at PNJ and btw their circulation is down to 32,000 during the week.

The daily newspaper reported Carol Hudler, special assistant to U.S. newspaper division president Bob Dickey, and former president of the South Group of community papers,…

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Posted in Politics

Tea Party candidate loses Alabama congressional run-off

Well the Tea Party lost another House run-off, this time in nearby south Alabama. Bradley Byrne won the GOP primary runoff for the Congressional District…

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