Soups, salads, and sandwiches joint Simply Delicious shut its doors today. Its six employees were let go and the owner intends to put the building up for sale.
Rumours are abound about the impending closures of several other well-known Pensacola establishments, but I won’t name names until I can confirm.
Although it’s disappointing to see another closure, there are a few openings to report…
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Another restaurant closing: Eat! on Palafox shut its doors last night. As with Varona’s, it wasn’t really a place I frequented, but it was a nice enough place. It wasn’t really the same after the departure of Chef Lee Lucier, though, and it couldn’t weather this recession.
Office supply chain Office Depot will close 112 stores, [...]
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As Rick Outzen reported, Varona’s on 12th Avenue has shut its doors.
It wasn’t my type of place, but it’s a real shame to see another local business venture fail. The building, which was completely renovated prior to Varona’s opening, looked terrific and the place had a signature style. There just isn’t anything else like it [...]
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If the whole big world of blogs is the blogosphere, what does that make the much, much smaller world of Pensacola blogs? The blogohood?
Anyway, I wanted to highlight some notable items from our neighbours:
Mark O’Brien: “That ship has sailed”
Presumably talking about goofball City Council candidate Peter Saccomanno, Mark makes the same good arguments I’ve [...]
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After more than $700 billion in taxpayer-subsidised bailouts for irresponsible corporations, and after our government has absorbed massive private debt into the already-enormous public debt, our American economy is still finding a way to blow itself up.
The Dow continues to fall by triple digits every day. Today, it closed at 8,579. One year ago today [...]
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Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen below 10,000 points for the first time in four years. Currently the Dow is down more than 500 points.
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