Education Buzz: Secret meeting fiasco, EDS skinny
The secret meeting that Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas held last Friday to win support for his policies dealing with abandoned school properties failed miserably,…
Gingrich: Get any job that teaches you to show up on Monday
Today at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Newt Gingrich proposed radical new ideas to solve poverty in America, including changes in child labor laws, getting rid…
Buzz: Baby Gaetz fails to oust mayor
Found this little tidbit in Northwest Florida Daily News. Pat Bates has been reelected as the mayor in Altamonte Springs, despite local State Rep. Matt…
Hooray, BP is running more tourism ads
BP Press Release: BP announced today that it is expanding its Gulf Coast tourism advertising campaign with new ads highlighting this year’s successful tourism season…
Can’t find CRA vote to hire own attorney
I have gone through the CRA agendas for the period Jan 2011 through May 2011. I can’t find any items for discussion on hiring Doug…
CRA only has four rules
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) OF THE CITY OF PENSACOLA POLICIES AND PROCEDURES (amended January 24, 2011) 1. General Unless expressly provided otherwise by law or…
Are foster children being medicated like schizophrenics?
 The New York Times cited a study published in the Pediatric Journal that appears to reflect that. And keep in mind: All of the programs…
Governance by Assumption
The Pensacola City Council and its Community Redevelopment Agency are legislative bodies. They act based on their votes. Chairpersons aren’t given executive powers. Those only…
Alarming Climate Change Effects on FL
by Les Coleman, Florida News Service– MIAMI, Fla. – “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” is out, and…
Rise & Fall of Cain
CafePress is an e-commerce platform that powers user-designed merchandise. With an average of over 137,000 new designs uploaded every week, many of them are political…
Veteran Affairs launches Spouse Telephone Support program
The Department of Veterans Affairs is implementing a telephone support program to help the spouses of returning Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, after a pilot telephone…
More Army suicides
The Army released on Friday, Nov. 18 suicide data for the month of October. Among active-duty soldiers, there were 17 potential suicides: one has been…
Runaway CRA spending
The chairman of Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Pensacola has run up legal bills with the help of the former CRA administrator without…
Supercommittee Super Failure?
Bipartisanship continues to gridlock Congress. The Supercommittee that was to propose cuts and savings to the federal budget will not meet its deadline, and the…
Why You Tube is better than Match.com
Actress Mila Kunis was the date of Sgt. Scott Moore at the Marine Corps Ball in Greenville NC Â Friday night. He invited her via YOUTUBE…
Do you pay first?
What’s funnier? That they charge for throwing rocks? Or that they trust you to ’fess up? I wonder…
Another bizarre GOP debate
The Republican Party’s presidential nomination process has become a weird reality show. There hasn’t been anything like it since Anna Nicole Smith had her show…
Personhood amendment has some support in Florida
The defeat of a similar state constitutional amendment in Mississippi has deflated the Personhood advocates in Florida. They have their own website, personhoodfl.com. The group…
Second Mile board members got lucrative PSU contracts
Deadspin reports Second Mile board members landed fat contracts from Penn State. Poole Anderson, the construction company run by Second Mile chairman Bob Poole, earned…
Shocking, calm brutality of UC Davis cops
This video of a policeman calmly – almost proudly – spraying student protesters at UC Davis has bugged me since I first saw it. Campus…
