City staff obligated to finance CMP
People and the news media are starting to question the proposal that Dick Barker, city’s finance director, quickly presented to the Pensacola City Council at…
Richburg/Sansom meeting not public
The St. Pete Times reports today the March 2008 “public” meeting between State Rep. Ray Sansom and Northwest Florida State College president Bob Richburg and…
Florida schools could lose out on federal aid
The Economic Stimulus package that was approved by the House requires states to maintain school spending to ”at least at the level of fiscal year…
Hilarious Century
The more we read about Century, the more you wonder if it really should be incorporated or if it should be part of Escambia County….
White House Boys sue Florida
Former inmates at the old Florida School for Boys, in Marianna, which was part of the state’s reform school system, are suing the state. Some…
More budget cuts coming?
The Herald Tribune reports that Florida Senate budget chairman J.D. Alexander said Tuesday that tax revenues for December and January were expected to be a…
Clay Ford not named Speaker of the House
House Republicans unanimously chose Rep. Larry Cretul as their new leader, allowing him to take over Ray Sansom’s duties as House Speaker immediately. Seventy-four of…
Brother does good
Don’t say UWF president Judy Bense doesn’t have political clout. Her brother, Allan is the former Florida House Speaker and has been appointed vice chairman…
Century has Obama wish list
NorthEscambia.com reports the Century Town Council has been working on its own wish list for the Obama Stimulus Package: $1.7 million to increase the elevated…
NY Times: Pensacola case in U.S. Supreme Court
In 1989, someone raped a 72-year-old woman in Pensacola. Joe Sullivan was 13 at the time, and he admitted that he and two older friends…
Pace ministers will hold church service in church
That is essentially what happened yesterday in Pace. The local ministers agreed to plan and hold the Pace High School baccalaureate service in a church….
Arkansas is considering bill to allow guns in church
Arkansas House Bill 1237 is being debated a bill removes “any church or other place of worship” from the list of places that a person…
Sansom, Richburg factor
The Daily News is trying to evaluate in the impact of Ray Sansom resigning as Speaker of the Florida House. A grand jury, a House…
Former Century mayor fined, reprimanded
NorthEscambia.com reports that the state ethics commission has found former Mayor Evelyn Hammond misused her position, and they have recommended that she be ordered to…
Rumors hurt restaurants
During the Christmas holidays, there was a sort of “dead pool” being done as people tried to predict which restaurants would close by Dec. 31,…
Gulf Breeze UFO Hoax
The PNJ reports that the History Channel’s “UFO Hunters” will be in Gulf Breeze within the next two weeks to film an episode about the…
Pace ministers rally against lawsuit
Area ministers will a rally today at the Pace Assembly of God Church to respond to the recent lawsuit the American Civil Liberties Union filed…
Who ran Jail Infirmary?
Prison Health Services, Inc. was hired to run the Escambia County Jail infirmary by then jail director Dennis Williams in 2001. They were replaced by…
Former DOJ Civil Rights violated federal law
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice released a report on the hiring practices of the former head of its Civil Rights Division by the…
What took DOJ so long to investigate ECSO
Why did it take six years for the Department of Justice to investigate the first complaint against the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and three years…
