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Blog: Brown Speaks About Campaign Sign Video; Story Travels Globally
A local Florida House District 1 candidate facing accusations around the world that he stole signs belonging to his opponent says he was “set up”. Republican Greg Brown tells NorthEscambia.com that he was simply doing what he thought he had permission to do when he removed signs belonging to opponent Doug Broxson from the intersection of Highway 89 and Highway 87. It was after dark Saturday when Brown stopped at the intersection after leaving an old-fashioned political stump rally in Jay. Brown said property owner...
BLOG: Big Change For NorthEscambia.com
NorthEscambia.com celebrated a major milestone of sorts over the weekend that we hope will benefit you. Friday evening, we moved to a much faster dedicated web server. That’s it pictured at the top of the page. We had been hosted on what’s called a “shared server” — a server that contained multiple web sites. But, thanks to readers like you, we had experienced growing pains on that server. During peak hours, it just was not possible for the server to deliver thousands of requests per minute. Over...
Our View: Century Provided Inadequate Public Meeting Notice
Letter-sized public notices posted on the door of the Century Town Hall and at the town’s Piggly Wiggly were the only prominent notices given of a public forum held Monday night by the Century Town Council. The council held the one hour public forum at 6 p.m. to discuss qualification criteria for the town’s eligible citizens to apply for their fair share of a housing assistance grant. NorthEscambia.com did not attend the public forum in order to report the events that transpired because we were not notified of the...
Our View: Consolidation Vote Should Be Delayed At Least Two Years
Tonight, Escambia County’s legislative delegation will likely decide whether or not to send a plan created by the Escambia County Consolidation Study Commission to the Legislature and ultimately to the voters in November of this year. The vote that should be made by the five members of the legislative delegation is very clear. The plan should be delayed at least two years before being presented to the voters — if it is not killed. Period. The City of Pensacola recently enacted a new charter form of government; their...
Blog: What Went Wrong? Mosquito Trap? Drugs? Alien Probe?
What in this world, or out of this world, went wrong for it to take hours to identify a mosquito trap as a “mystery object”? Why were deputies and firemen unable to identify an object that was suppose to be clearly labeled as property of Escambia County Mosquito Control? Perhaps surprising to some, the answer is a story about things that went the right way. The buzz all over Escambia County Tuesday was our story about the mystery object glowing in the woods of Bluff Springs. Everywhere you went in the county, people...
Blog: Stolen Church VBS Signs
This little light o’ mine, I’m gonna let it shine. It was a childish act Friday night as someone stole signs around Molino that advertised Vacation Bible School at Highland Baptist Church.(Read more here.) Stealing is always wrong; we are all taught that when we are what — about three? Perhaps it was someone with something against the church, someone taking part in a prank or someone with serious spiritual issues. Maybe “the devil made them do it” would be their excuse. But sometimes things backfire...