Posts Tagged ‘Santa Rosa’
BP walks out of Crist’s Oil Spill Meeting
Yesterday, Gov. Crist held an Oil Spill Economic Recovery Task Force Meeting at the University of West Florida. According to reports I received from the meeting, BP was there in full force. BP VP of [...]
SRIA misuses beautification funds
The Santa Rosa Island Authority has a beautification fund. Has the SRIA used that fund to buy equipment to get the tar balls and oil off the beach? No. How about buying a skimmer or another sand [...]
Questions Suttles should have been asked
BP COO Doug Suttles flew into Pensacola yesterday. He visited Ft. Pickens to watch workers clean up a relatively light mess on the beach there. He went to the Santa Rosa Island Authority offices for [...]
Grover and Goodin met with BP in D.C.
I spoke with Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson this morning about his and Santa Rosa Commissioner Gordon Goodin's meetings with the Coast Guard and British Petroleum. Congressman Jeff [...]
Transcript of Olbermann interview
I really thought I sounded more literate and knowledgeable than this: OLBERMANN: That we know about the B.P. waiver agreement offering up to $5,000 to Gulf Coast residents in exchange for their [...]
DEP pulls approval of Santa Rosa booming plan
The state pulled today its approval of Santa Rosa County's plan to boom the Pensacola Bay and Bob Sikes bridges just the County Commission was preparing to review and approve a bid for the [...]
Notes on Beach Town Hall meeting, May 3
Please forgive any typos in these notes. Have been operating on pots of coffee, Bud Light and Ny Nick's wings for 72 straight hours. Gulf Breeze idea Mayor Beverly Zimmern and City Manager Buzz [...]
Gaetz narrowly wins House Dist. 4 primary
Matt Gaetz, son of State Sen. Don Gaetz, narrowly defeated former Destin Mayor Craig Barker by margin of 634 votes. Gaetz won the Republican primary thanks to a huge lead in early and absentee [...]
Tomlinson arrest report
Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant, John "Mitch" Tomlinson, was arrested on March 9 and charged with 120 counts of sexual battery on a child between the ages of 12 and 18. Two days later [...]
South Santa Rosa Co. news
No snow. It's raining, cold...but no snow. My high schooler is happy nonetheless because she will be able to tell her children and grandchildren that in 2010 she got a "snow day" from the school [...]
Liberty Counsel to sue Santa Rosa schools
Liberty Counsel, a conservative Christian group that has offices in Florida, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., has told the Daily News that it plans to sue the Santa Rosa County School District for [...]
Buzz: Evers may be behind BOCC vote
There is a rumor that State Rep. Greg Evers is a large factor behind Commissioner Wilson Robertson's motion. Evers has been blasted for months on the NorthEscambia.com website in the Comments [...]
Arts Council of Northwest Florida Official Statement
Received this evening: January 2, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arts Council of Northwest Florida Mission Our mission is to create a premiere arts and culture community in Escambia County to [...]
Billings case: Wednesday, July 15 part 2
MAKING MONEY Wednesday, July 15 Jean Duncan and her boyfriend Glenn Burnett come around 6 p.m. to the ECSO to proved statement to Investigator Tama Barber., who interviews them [...]
Jeff Miller and two buddies back Lay
Pace principal Frank Lay received a letter from Congressman Jeff Miller and two other members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, J. Randy Forbes and Mike McIntyer. According to the letter, the CPC [...]
