New Jail Healthcare provider…same crew, different name
The contractor for the Escambia County Jail infirmary is Armor Correctional Health Services, a company founded less than two years ago by the same man…
Compare O’Brien to Outtakes
Yesterday, PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien gave his views on Mark Foley (Foley case gets even slimier as partisans throw mud, call names). In the Oct….
Who really owns the sand on the beach?
 SRIA GM Buck Lee wants leaseholders to return the sand that’s blown on their property to the SRIA – SRIA takes up coarse issue….
New Caregiver at Jail
 Prison Health Services is no longer running the infirmary of the Escambia County Jail. PHS apparently lost its accredidation….maybe the three deaths in 10…
GOP ad that’s too hot for Rove
Matt Drudge claims to have a TV ad that’s so over the top that Republican leaders won’t use it. Of course, here’s the link:Â Zucker…
Timeline on North Korea nuclear bomb
The blogosphere has already worked out a timeline on the North Korean bomb program. This is from ThinkProgress.org: PRESIDENT REAGAN Mid-1980s: First signs of North…
tick, tick, tick….Woodham High’s days are numbered
WEAR TV3 reported last night on the School Zone Attendance Advisory Committee of the Escambia County school system is working on its rezoning plans and…
Irony: Black accused of suppressing white vote in Miss.
The Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Noxubee County, Miss. – Ike Brown – is accused of paying and organizing notaries, some of whom…
Strong-mayor battle in Miami
The Miami Herald reports the Miami-Dade Commissioners back suit against strong-mayor vote The lawsuit seeks to toss out more than 123,000 petition signatures calling for…
Barney Frank scandal very different from Foley
I’ve heard Luke “Angry White Man” McCoy and others keep saying. “Democrats didn’t do anything about Barney Frank”…or “Well, Foley isn’t any worse than Frank”…
CMPA nominees
Here are the nominees for the three open seats on the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees (nominating councilperson in parenthesis): Judge David Ackerman…
Did North Korea really explode nuclear bomb?
Although the Bush Administration wants us to believe North Korea tested a nuclear bomb this weekend – remember a scared American votes Republican – there…
To the victors the spoils
In doing some research on Congressional spending, I came across this 2002 Washington Post article written by David Post of AP – Majority status enriched…
Bill Nelson is luckiest man alive
GOP candidate for U.S. senate Katherine Harris declared yesterday( ) that she want barriers to oil drilling off U.S. coastlines lowered and attacked Nelson for…
FEMA misspends money…..duh
Last year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded Florida $22.6 million for “crisis counseling” for victims of hurricanes Wilma and Katrina. Florida’s program, called Project…
Why did Crist investigate 1951 murders?
Attorney General Charlie Crist tried to solve the 1951 murders of civil rights leader Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette. They were killed when…
Magaha-Touart battle wages on
Friday, the two Escambia County powerhouses – County Administrator George Touart and Clerk of Courts Ernie Lee Magaha faced off in court. Magaha filed a…
Ranking Congressional races
The National Journal has ranked the 50 most hotly contested races for the U.S. House of Representatives. No, our District 1 race between Jeff Miller…
Harris says Nelson not Christian enough
Republican candidate for U.S. senate Katherine Harris badly wants to make religion an issue in her campaign against heavily-favored incumbent Bill Nelson. In an interview…
