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Shannon NickinsonAugust 19, 2014

We’re going to need a bigger bridge. To make a meaningful dent in crime prevention, the gap between law enforcement and those they are sworn to protect needs to be narrowed. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office in Northwest Florida is trying to do its part, and for that it deserves due credit. It hosted a […]

Shannon NickinsonAugust 7, 2014

How do we make a difference in a child’s future? One answer comes from a study released in June by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Over nearly 30 years they studied about 800 kids from first grade until their late 20s. Kids whose parents were married and working fared better. Most kids from […]

Shannon NickinsonJuly 23, 2014

David Waggonner gave the Pensacola area a lot to chew on. How much of his philosophy about environmentally sensible stormwater management we ultimately will swallow remains to be seen. But you can’t say the case hasn’t been made. Waggonner is an architect who is the guru behind the Greater New Orleans Water Urban Plan. He […]

Shannon NickinsonJune 29, 2014

Pensacola native Paul Sheaffer had the perfect app-developer experience. If only he could have had it in Pensacola. Sheaffer, with his brother Chase and their co-worker Marvin Paul, developed Out of Milk, a shopping app that allows users to create shopping lists that can be shared among users. They began work on it in Pensacola […]

Shannon NickinsonJune 10, 2014

I read some pretty subversive stuff in high school under the watchful eyes of teachers. Thank God. Like the one about the little boy who helps an ex-con on the lamb. As a young man he ends up in a tortured love affair with a beautiful, icy young woman who is groomed by her mentor […]

Shannon NickinsonJune 3, 2014

When the First Amendment Foundation publicized its transparency scorecard last month, it found that on average, cities and counties in Florida had lots of room for improvement in sharing the workings of government with the governed. On average, local government websites earned 52 out of 100 possible points on a transparency scorecard. The scores were […]

Shannon NickinsonMay 22, 2014

Pensacon is going places, and if Pensacola is smart, we will help it get there. The sci-fi, comic book, fantasy, horror and gaming pop culture convention packed out the Pensacola Bay Center in its first year. Though the idea had been in Chairman Mike Ensley’s mind for years, Ensley teamed with Ben Galecki, CEO of […]

Guest AuthorMay 15, 2014

There are no fancy brochures for this nursing home, no limousines to ferry the residents to malls and concerts, no menus offering an array of choices. It’s not a bad nursing home. It’s old but it’s clean, and the halls are full of staffers who mostly seem cheerful and helpful and attentive even though the […]

Shannon NickinsonMay 14, 2014

Joe Sims believes in paying it forward. So does Nicole Brown. And why wouldn’t they? They are flesh and blood proof of what it can get you. Joe is a social worker in Crestview who works for the United Methodist Children’s Home, a group home for children who are in the state foster care system. […]

Shannon NickinsonMarch 20, 2014

Bruce Beach deserves to be more than the dumping ground for fill dirt, riprap and spoil for every other construction project along Pensacola’s downtown waterfront. It deserves to be more than the tangle of brush and overgrowth that shelters a makeshift home place for vagrants. Bruce Beach in its current state is not the kind […]

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Shannon Nickinson: A bigger bridge is needed between law enforcement, community

Shannon Nickinson: Pensacola’s future depends on investing in its young children

Shannon Nickinson: We must learn that we can’t fight the water forever

Shannon Nickinson: Pensacola produces app designers, but it can’t keep them

Shannon Nickinson: Unassigning Cory Doctorow’s book isn’t doing teens a favor

Shannon Nickinson: Cities, counties do poor job of sharing information with citizens

Shannon Nickinson: If Pensacola is smart, it will encourage Pensacon

Mark O’Brien: There’s a nursing home in your future

Shannon Nickinson: Programs tackle poverty one child at a time

Shannon Nickinson: Pensacola’s Bruce Beach deserves its time in the sun