Strippers and Terrorists Collide in “Garden of Last Days”
By Beach Blogger at 26 February, 2010, 11:48 am
Before they went on to change the world, the hijackers who flew the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center spent extensive time in Florida strip clubs. This fact, apparently, was the inspiration for Andre Dubus’ “Garden of Last Days,” a tale of intertwining lives on the Gulf Read More
Read More >>Chan Gailey: George Edwards will help Bills’ nose tackles
Chan Gailey, hired as the Buffalo Bills’ coach last month, addressed the media at the NFL Scouting Combine Thursday and among the many topics he covered was his belief that former Dolphins linebacker coach George Edwards, who joined him as defensive coordinator a few weeks ago, will find a Read More
Read More >>Consolidation Clowning
By Beach Blogger at 24 February, 2010, 9:01 am
Like almost everyone else in Escambia County, we haven’t paid sufficient attention to the proposed city-county consolidation plan (available in full text here ). Partly this is because, as with the new Pensacola City Charter , it looks to us like a different circus with the same clowns. Read More
Read More >>Remembering Jade Moore
By Gimleteye at 23 February, 2010, 10:33 am
It was overcast and windy. Fire engines roared past (twice). A Florida flag fell over (twice). But 200 people who showed up at PCTA-PESPA headquarters last night for a ceremony to re-name the building after Jade Moore just took it in stride and kept laughing – which is undoubtedly what Read More
Read More >>Car Break-Ins Ok as Long as you Work for Tremont Towing
By Beach Blogger at 19 February, 2010, 4:02 pm
It would be nice if our city government would not allow people who rob not only its citizens, but its visitors, to do business with it. It would be nice if when a company gets caught on video breaking into cars, it actually faces some financial repercussions. But as it is, it seems the Beach is Read More
Read More >>Duval takes step toward an appointed school board
We've heard the debate here in Florida over whether a school district should elect or appoint its superintendent. Pasco County notably has rejected moving toward an appointed leader, while Lake County recently couldn't wait to move away from an elected one. We've also watched Read More
Read More >>Janssen gets input, ideas for reshaping Pinellas schools
By Beach Blogger at 19 February, 2010, 9:27 am
If you want to know what big changes may be in store for Pinellas schools, check out these two lengthy reports here and here . Community schools? Residencies for new teachers? More time for teacher collaboration? Those ideas and dozens of others were compiled after Pinellas Superintendent Julie Read More
Read More >>The Presidency of Barack Quincy Adams Obama
By Beach Blogger at 10 February, 2010, 7:35 am
When one focuses on just how obstructionist the modern Republican Party has become in Congress, it’s difficult to find any parallels in our history. Certainly, one that comes immediately to mind is the decade preceding the Civil War. This was, like now, a time when political passions ran Read More
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