Touart: Fire me. I dare you.
“Former” County Administrator George Touart wants to come back to work. His attorney says that he only offered to retired because County Atty Janet Lander…
Small victory in Insurance War
In the PNJ: The insurer agrees to lower its premiums an additional 2 percent — bringing the total cut since June to an average 9…
Brain-eating amoeba lives
From the AP wire: It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and…
John Edwards isn’t doomed yet
Slate.com reports The third quarter fund-raising numbers are trickling in: Obama raised $19 million, Hillary is reportedly in the same ballpark, Thompson raked in more…
Blackwater background
I love the Internet with a little digging you can find out tons on nearly anyone. Today the CEO of Blackwater, Erik Prince, testifies on…
No, Freddie, no
Yesterday, GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson told Iowa voters that Iraq did indeed have Weapons of Mass Destruction prior to the U.S. invasion. The Des…
A good newspaper
At the beginning of 2007, PNJ executive editor asked, “What makes a good newspaper?” This NY Times article on the St. Petersburg Times answers that…
Is GOP ignoring minority vote?
Last Thursday, Tavis Smiley moderated a Republican presidential forum on PBS, where candidates — for the first time — answered questions from “a panel exclusively…
NY Times covers Atchison
NY Times: Town Is Shaken After Prosecutor’s Arrest in a Child-Sex Sting To neighbors here, J. D. Roy Atchison was a deft federal prosecutor, an…
Impact 100 has imitator
WIND targets downtown revitalization Dothan Eagle – Dothan,AL,USA The group is fashioned after a Pensacola, Fla., organization called Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area. That women’s…
Studer is crazy
If you really look at the commitments Quint Studer has made to make the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park successful, you can only draw…
Alas Baseball Challenge has no reply
This weekend I renewed my challenge to those who oppose the baseball park component of the Community Maritime Park. Pick five minor league baseball parks…
Baseball Challenge
I challenge anyone to identify five minor league baseball parks built since 1999 in downtown areas that have not helped the economies of their cities….
Fl Supreme Court revises TIF ruling
We’re trying to track down what the revised ruling means for the Community Maritime Park. We hear WEAR TV3 is interpreting it to mean there…
Stadium – key to CMP
I interviewed all four candidates who want to be the master developer for the Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park (Inside Business ). They each…
Strange business climate
A popular downtown bakery closes (Pitzmann Bakery to close its doors ) because it can’t find qualified bakers to help an ailing owner. Hate to…
Pensacola City Hall had no storm surge
Park opponents love to claim that building anything on Pensacola Bay is foolish and that any hurricane will wash it away. They cite the damage…
Who is Will Waspo?
On pnj.com – Studer-hater posted this diatribe about the park and Studer: Nobody attends the games now at the Pelicant’s home at swampy UWF. This…
Nobles-Russenberger feud continues
Jack Nobles and Ray Russenberger ran against each other 2004 for the at-large seat on the Pensacola City Council. Nobles, the incumbent, won re-election. Russenberger…
Park plan draws fire on pnj.com
Here are some of the inane comments on the pnj.com on the Community Maritime Park plans From someone identified as gfri: I might consider voting…
