Month: August 2011

The Jurist website reports that Federal Judge Carl Barbier has ruled that all state law claims in the BP oil spill case are preempted by…

Press Release: The Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to support the UWF Job Shadowing and Mentoring Program. This program provides local employers…

Press Release: Pensacola’s City Council will be taking up a handful of initiatives sponsored by Mayor Ashton Hayward aimed at cleaning up blighted properties and…

Press Release: The League of Women Voters General Meeting will be held on Saturday, September 17 at the Lucia Tryon Library, 1200 Langley Ave. Coffee…

KC Etheredge has been named the new Vice President of Membership and Investor Development at the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. KC was most…

Lumon May pre-filed on Aug. 29 for Escambia County Commission District 3. The seat is currently held by Marie Young who was appointed to the…

Press Release: A Gulf Power storm restoration team of 65 employees began work in the Upper Marlboro, Md. area Sunday, helping electric utility Pepco restore…

U.S. Senate Candidate and former House Majority Leader Adam Hasner will be in Pensacola on Monday Aug. 29. According to an email I received last…

From ProPublica: Here are this week’s top 10 must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica’s ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism. Anyone can contribute by tweeting…

From our friends at Gawker: Videos of reporters being blown every which way by hurricane-force winds on live TV! Here are 10 of the best…

The Daily Beasts writes about some of the crazier Hurricane Irene survival kits. Water and batteries can get you through the hurricane—but Oreos and booze…

St. Pete Times reports that Rick Scott’s transition team knew of the deletions of its emails as early as March 14, while the governor says…

Orlando Sentinel reports that Jeff Ashton, the assistant state attorney who became a national figure during the high-profile Casey Anthony murder trial, has confirmed he…

It’s Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog.

I will be on The John Batchelor Show tonight at 10 p.m. The John Batchelor Show is a national radio program on WABC in NYC…

Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer has earned a nickname around town after his exodus from Thursday’s budget workshop: “Moses” for trying to lead the city…

Miami Herald reports that Gov. Rick Scott’s pick to lead the state’s corrections department (nation’s third-largest prison system ) came to abrupt end this week…

North Escambia.com reports that Westboro Baptist Church, the controversial Kansas church known for protesting at military funerals, backed out of a planned protest at Friday…

Mobile Press Register reports that Tim Cook, who took the helm of Apple, Inc. this week is a Robertsdale, Alabama, native. Cook, took charge of…

BP may very well have told the truth about the oil found in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion…