Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. has suspended sales of rifles similar to the one used at Sandy Hook school at its more than 500 stores. Wal-Mart has not. The media is reporting brisk…
Wooden Ships
Columbus has landed. Or, at least replicas of his ‘Pinta’ and ‘Nina,’ are docked at the end of Palafox Place. The wooden ships arrived around noon today and open to the public…
County Looks for Lorax
Escambia County needs someone to represent environmental concerns on an advisory committee being formed to prioritize uses for the expected RESTORE Act money. The county commission is forming a RESTORE Act advisory…
Simplest response to Sandy Hook: More School Resource Officers
Rather than arming every school teacher, the simplest response to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary is for Escambia and Santa Rosa school districts to add school resource officers (sworn deputies) to…
The Discussion Will Not Be Televised
The Escambia County Commission is holding a special meeting Thursday to discuss the specifics of the employee-leave buyout voted on last week, as well as the possibility of a “floating holiday†for…
Dead body indentified. It is a homicide
Escambia County Investigators have identified Alfred L. Watson, 28, of Pensacola found this morning as the victim of a homicide. Today about 8:50 am deputies responded to a report of a found…
Merger helps Gulf Winds Federal expand to Tallahassee
Press Release: Gulf Winds Federal Credit Union announces their merger with SCORE Federal Credit Union (SCORE FCU) in Tallahassee, Fla. The merger has been approved by the National Credit Union Administration and…
Libertarian Party answer to Sandy Hook: More guns, of course
Press Release: Libertarian Party: Halt the Massacre of Innocent Children by Ending Prohibition on Self-Defense in Schools Families throughout the nation mourn the horrific deaths of 26 people, including 20 young children,…
Schieffer: Too afraid to make world safer for kids? (video)
Bob Schieffer asks if legislators have become too afraid of powerful lobbies to explore ways to make world safer for children. Source: CBS
Dead body found
Press Release: Escambia County deputies are investigating a body which was located in the woods near Wentworth St and Maxwell St about 08:50 a.m. this morning. A person reported to deputies that…
More gunshots in west Pensacola
Gunshots rang out in the early hours of Sunday morning on Cervantes at the Travel Inn, a block west of Tom Ann Buddy’s. According to reports, Melvin Coley, 30, of Pensacola was…
Guest Viewpoint: Universal Responsibility
By Winslow Myers— “O that there were some virtue in my tears . . .â€â€”Shakespeare– One of the Dalai Lama’s first principles is something he calls “universal responsibility.†However quick we are…
5,740 Children and Teens were Killed by Guns in 2008 and 2009
The Children’s Defense Fund published earlier this year a report (Protect Children, Not Guns 2012) on the rise of gun deaths of children and teens. In 2008, 2,947 children and teens died…
Obama speaks on school shooting
“I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation, and made it clear he will have every resource he needs to investigate,too many of these tragedies in the last few…
Lewis Bear, Jr. named chairman of UWF Board of Trustees
Today, the University of West Florida Board of Trustees voted to name Trustee Lewis Bear, Jr. Chairman of the Board and Trustee Mort O’Sullivan vice chairman for the next two years, effective…
Big Deal at the Airport
A big deal is brewing at the Pensacola International Airport. While local officials have kept the lid on the details fairly tight, it appears something is in the works. During last night’s…
Strike Two: state attorney says no Sunshine violation on veto press conference
State Attorney has found no violation of the Sunshine Law during the Mayor’s press conference regarding his veto of a budget amendment. Councilwoman Myers had filed a complaint against the mayor and…
Woman tasered over trying to buy too many phones. Thank goodness, it was not in Pensacola (video)
A woman trying to buy too many iPhones at a New Hampshire Apple store and ends up being Tasered by police outside the store. See here.
Florida Voices: When mandatory sentence does not fit the crime
On Thursdays, I write a column for the website Florida Voices, which is picked up the Tampa Tribune for its community papers and other papers across the state. This week about Escambia…
The Real Reason for the Season
Standing outside in the biting cold, Streets and Lanes Ministry were making their weekly rounds today, handing out lunch to the area’s homeless. Today’s rounds were a little bit more special, however,…