Mobile Press Register reports that the Mobile hotel industry is booming. Mobile has no beach. Yet a Press-Register analysis of city lodging tax records shows that people spent more than $101 million…
City golf course
A favorite gripe of PNJ columnist Mark “Moby” O’Brien is the city-owned Osceola Golf Course – not the Port of Pensacola. Well, Fort Walton Beach is having similar issues with the budget…
Notes: CMPA meeting 6.13.08
June 13 Community Maritime Park Associates Board meeting notes: Much of Friday’s Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees was standing room only as the two master developer candidates gave their presentations…
IN Your Head Radio 6.13
We will talk to Dahlia Hashad, Domestic Human Rights Program Director for Amnesty International. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that the prisoners being held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to challenge their…
Sheriff candidates debate, no arrests
In Broward County, sheriff candidates debated and no one threatened to arrest anyone. Amazing. There appears to be a trend to sheriff’s debates with news coverage and no threats. Only in Escambia…
DeeDee Ritchie for Mayor
There is a group trying to convince DeeDee Ritchie to run for mayor of Pensacola. The former state representative is seriously considering this re-entry into public service. Ritchie was the Florida teacher…
Notes: BCC 6.12.08
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WORKSHOP BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Escambia County Government Complex 221 Palafox Place June 12, 2008 Call to order at 9:06 a.m. Commissioners White, Whitehead, Young and Valentino were…
Jaden Markes dies
The four-year-old that was the center of the national controversy of whether he was suffering from Miller-Dieker Syndrome or child neglect died peacefully yesterday in hospice care at West Florida Hospital. Read…
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Notes: City manager meeting
June 11 City Council Special Meeting: City Manager Tom Bonfield didn’t say a word. But the city council and mayor sure did. They talked about learning—from the media—that Bonfield plans to leave…
IN Your Head Radio 6.11
Did new City Attorney Rusty Wells accurately describe his side work for the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office? We will talk to local attorney Bert Oram about that. We’ll also talk to Tom Bonfield…
Missing part of Levitt story
Both the PNJ and WEAR TV 3 have similar stories on the arrest of Andrea Levitt, the 28 yr. old who ran off with a teenage boy and her two kids. Someone…
Mad fold-ins
I was a big fan of Mad Magazine. One popular feature was the fold-in created by Al Jaffee. The New York Times has an section of the fold-ins for Mad magazine, from…
Wendall Hall video on NY Times site
Sheriff Wendell Hall of Santa Rosa County, Fla., uses false-documentation laws to round up illegal immigrants. Check it out – NYT
IN Your Head Radio 6.10
Today on IN Your Head Radio I will talk to Robert Weissert of Florida Tax Watch. I will also take your calls at 850-437-1620. IN Your Head Radio begins at 12:00 on News…
Gannett has multi-billion dollar write down
The Pensacola News Journal’s owner, Gannett, will write down its assets by about $2.5 billion to $3 billion this quarter to reflect the declining value of its operations. The company’s CFO says…
Sheriff’s debate on issues, not video
Sarasota County also is having a hotly contested sheriff’s race. Instead of fighting over video cameras, the candidates are actually talking about issues. Amazing! There is no Deputy Rex Blackburn threatening to…
Touart not hired for Orange Beach job
Former Escambia County Administrator George Touart was called best of 70 candidates for the Orange Beach city manager job, but Mayor Pete Blalock says decision will be left to city leaders elected…
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IN Your Head Radio 6.09
Today on IN Your Head Radio on News Radio 1620: Rob Walker, contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine on environmental marketing, murketing and his column for the Times, “Consumed”. (Click…
