Panhandle newspaper roundup – June 21
ThursDaily Dose PNJ has crime trifecta: murder victim id, death sentence and DUI sentencing. Daily News reports on tolls roads, realtors praying for better market…
Bailey resigns as CRA director
Effective August 3, David Bailey will no longer be Pensacola’s CRA director. He will be re-entering private practice (architect) with Spencer Maxwell Bullock. Read: Bye…
30-40-50 tax plan…will it fly?
A Miami mortgage broker, Bernie Navarro, heads a group that has written its own property tax reform plan that he wants to get on the…
Gannett dropping interns in Montgomery, elsewhere
Maynard Institute website reports: The Gannett Co. newspaper in Montgomery, Ala., was forced to make quick and drastic budget cuts last week, editor Wanda Lloyd…
Panhandle Daily News summaries
WedsDaily Dose PNJ: Dentist may have filled more than cavities. Dead body found. And Chamber woos…sounds like an episode of CSI or Law & Order.
The Ghoul that Pensacola Refuses to Remember
We’ve received inquiries about an article we published in May 2004 on the Pensacola’s more infamous history. One that is of particular interest is the…
PNJ Most Powerful, circa 2001
In March 2001 Carl Wernicke and Ginny Graybiel put together a list of the 20 Top Movers and Shakers in Pensacola for the daily newspaper….
Entire Access Business plan
For your reading enjoyment, the complete “Health Care Business Plan for Escambia County’s Low Income Uninsured Low Income, Uninsured Population”: Entire Report.pdf
PNJ misses VFD story completely
Finally the Pensacola daily newspaper reports on fire protection in Escambia County. Unfortunately, they only focus on the possibility of higher fees and almost completely…
Fate of Pensacola Beach condos
The Sarasota Herald Tribune is staying on top of the impact of property tax changes on condominium owners. Why isn’t the Pensacola daily reporting this,…
Panhandle newspaper summaries 6/19
TuesDaily Dose Pensacola News Journal: car crashes, fires, looting. Daily News reports on a former city councilman’s fight to keep his chickens – yes, this…
Alabama Schools Get Hard On Soft Drinks
This is a news headline on the WEAR TV 3 web site. I think Jay Leno will have fun with this one.
Who are the uninsured?
Last August, we wrote about the area’s poor health and the Escambia Community Clinic. Rosalynda Blackburn shuffles slowly to the exam room at the Escambia…
County ready to improve fire safety
From Editor Duwayne Escobedo: With dozens of volunteer and career firefighters in the audience at today’s Escambia County Commission meeting, all five commissioners expressed support…
SOC mentality is back
The same “Do Nothing” crowd that worked under the “Save Our City” mantle is back. They predictably don’t like the Access Escambia referendum. They picked…
Tax Revolt
The Sarasota News Herald takes a different view of the special tax session than the Pensacola daily newspaper. There are some upset people in South…
Tale of two gunshots
The St. Petersburg Times has an article on two cases involving pistols being fired. One involves an unemployed black man; the other involves a lawyer…
Monday Panhandle News Summaries
MonDaily Dose It’s Monday which means it’s a light news day at the Pensacola News Journal: Bubba, Bears and beefs. Daily News has plane crash….
Access Escambia Business Plan
The naysayers are screaming on the daily newspaper’s website that Access Escambia has no business plan. Well here it is: Â Business Plan
Moms asked to report for daily
Due to the limited success of the “Newsy Neighbors” feature, the Pensacola daily paper has developed a website for moms and asked them to email…
