Category: <span>Archived Opinion</span>

Maggie Ming Published: April 26, 2006 Blessings! Wicca is an earth-based religion and one of the most popular forms of paganism. Here in Pensacola, there are quite a few wiccans living among the hundreds of Christians that dominate this region. Surprisingly (or not), this is actually not the best city in America to be pagan....

Published: April 26, 2006 Headlines like “Gas Prices Rise to Record Highs” have hit the stands far too many times to count in the past year. In other words, it’s just old news. People should be past the complaining stage and be thinking of ways to reduce our oil dependency, but it seems that every...

Yonit Shames Published: April 26, 2006 Since its controversial enactment in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act has had several years to start bringing schools to “adequate yearly progress,” which is supposed to be accomplished by the year 2014. But recently, the media has been abuzz with news that a loophole in the act...

Denilson Porto Published: April 26, 2006 In a typical fairytale there is a beautiful maiden who, through her adventures, ends up in some kind of distress. She may be locked up in some tower, under some curse, or just in need of someone to love her unconditionally and share in her endeavors. But sooner or...

Erika Wilhite Published: April 26, 2006 A bumper sticker once informed me that if I ignored my rights they would go away. I didn’t truly believe it then, but I do now. We are not, of course, constitutionally granted the right to cheap gas prices. In a capitalist society the government has no authority to...

Moria Dailey Published: April 12, 2006 Hello, lovely ladies and gents.  I told you last time how to steal things, but you all know I was kidding, right?  Yeah, yeah.  Well, outside of petty larceny, I’m sure all of you live somewhere, whether it’s with Mummy and Daddy or on your own.  Living is costly...

Published: April 12, 2006 Pensacola residents aren’t strangers to environmental threats. The city is the home of several Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites, and as the Pensacola News Journal reported in 2005, it is also home to three of the 226 Superfund sites nationwide that are still polluting groundwater. One of these, the Escambia Treating...

Yonit Shames Published: April 12, 2006 As in many community colleges across the state, PJC is full of them: the “floaters.” All of us know at least one, if we’re not guilty parties ourselves. These are the community college students who have already completed Associate in Arts degree requirements, but who “float” at PJC, taking...

Bob Roberts Published: April 12, 2006 On March 31, inside the University of West Florida’s Field House, a diverse crowd gathered to hear a lecture given by former President of Poland and founder of Solidarity, Lech Walesa. It was an event of unprecedented importance, not only for the University, but also for Pensacola as a...

Erika Wilhite Published: April 12, 2006 Ehh. Eeehhh. That is the sound my brain made when I found out about Senate Bill 246 – also known as Senator Lee Constantine’s “Excess Credit Hours” bill. I prefer to call it the War on Education. (If George W. Bush is permitted to declare wars on abstract nouns,...