Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category

The bright new year

What a year.
Politically, I’ve never had so much fun.  Although my candidate didn’t win every race, I think more of them went my way than didn’t.  We have four new faces on the Pensacola City Council.  Three women.  Younger faces.  Councilmen with 15 and 20 year tenures were toppled.  A corrupt, disgraceful, bigot of a [...]

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Yours truly on Yadda Yadda tonight

I’ll be on the BLAB-TV show Yadda Yadda tonight to talk about Progressive Pensacola and hang out with Cynthia Scheltema.
Yadda Yadda airs at 9:00 PM on Mondays on BLAB (Cox Channel 6).

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By the way

The Independent News ran a viewpoint of mine about City staff and agenda-setting and whatnot in today’s issue.
Links

IN: “City Staff Steers Council”

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I almost forgot

Also in today’s Independent News: A viewpoint from yours truly on the lousy job the state legislature did with the budget this past session.

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Apologies for the downtime

Every once in a while, I get so frustrated with my beloved Pensacola, and the… special… way things are done here, that I have to take a little downtime.
Regular posting will resume next week.

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Burgled!

My home was burgled on Monday, and among other things nabbed was my not-two-month-old laptop.  Bad week for yours truly.  I live in Eastside, which is admittedly not the best neighbourhood in the City, but it is on the upswing, I think.  In any case, nothing like this has ever happened before.
My thanks to the [...]

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