Reading Marty Donovan’s comments in the daily newspaper on his failure to force his third referendum in six years I was reminded how differently M. J. Menge handled the defeat of the county charter referendum in 2004. Menge was dying of cancer and yet he spend 17 months trying to [...]
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is asking the Senate Select Committee on Ethics to investigate the Senate's failure to follow a 2007 provision that prohibits the use of secret "holds" to block legislation -- and nominees. (Florida Sen. George LeMieux has three holds pending, including a block on the nomination of [...]
Tim Eagan – former Marty Donovan campaign worker and the man who wanted so badly to present to the Pensacola City Council his plans for a multimillion dollar development at the Port of Pensacola – faces a new charge – failure to appear. Eagan was charged on Nov. 16 for [...]
FACT: Our students are not graduating.
On November 5, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Gov. Crist and other state officials due to the dismally low graduation rates in Palm Beach County public schools. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of parents and students in Palm Beach County, [...]
Opinion 6 from Byron Kessler
There are those in our community who contend that the lack of sufficient concentration of power is at fault for our failure to achieve greater economic progress. If only, they tell us, we had greater authority vested in a single individual, we would free ourselves from [...]
