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Thank you, Bette Hooten. New downtown library long-time dream
West Florida Public Library Board of Trustees President, Bette Hooten, displayed our newspaper during her remarks at the dedication for the renovated and expanded downtown library (See article). Friends have told me…
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to…
Questions Suttles should have been asked
BP COO Doug Suttles flew into Pensacola yesterday. He visited Ft. Pickens to watch workers clean up a relatively light mess on the beach there. He went to the Santa Rosa Island…
Three Little Pigs Roundup
Three Little Pigs article is the most popular article on The Daily Beast. Fark.com (One of my favorite sites): Light-hearted “three little pigs”-themed internal BP memo argues that building blast resistant shelters…
Beast Corps: Notes on Meek’s Forum on Offshore drilling
From Beast Corps correspondent Logan Harrison: Timeline: • Arrived at 7:03 • Talked about being on the road all day, took bathroom break…. • Left Panama City this morning • Took a…
Transcript of Olbermann interview
I really thought I sounded more literate and knowledgeable than this: OLBERMANN: That we know about the B.P. waiver agreement offering up to $5,000 to Gulf Coast residents in exchange for their…
The Daily Beast wants to hear your voice
The Daily Beast is working with the Independent News to create “Voices from the Gulf“- a special section that collects and publishes stories, views and ideas from your blogs and tweeter accounts….
Another view of Monday’s meeting
We asked one of our college interns/free lancers to attend the Monday meeting on consolidation to offer up what she saw and heard. Some of this didn’t make the PNJ report: About…
PNJ has it backwards
BACKWARDS PROCESS Consolidation battle has not become about the details of the plan. Instead, the fight has been over whether the public should vote on the plan that no one other than…
Two More Years
The state legislators should table the Consolidation Plan until the proposal is fully discussed by the voters and modifications made to it based on the voters’ input—not based on the demands of…
Top 2009 IN cover stories
The Independent News is built on solid cover stories that either offer a behind-the-scenes look at top news stories or investigate issues that truly impact our quality of life. The year 2009…