Author: Rick Outzen
School Violence & Crime rankings
At what high school was a student or teacher most likely to be a victim of battery-2009-10: Escambia High School. Which high school was least…
How safe is your child’s school?
The Florida Department of Education tracks crime and violence incidents on the school campuses. If the schools have accurately entered the data into the FDOE…
Tea Party: Statehouse is ground zero
Viewpoint by Katharine DeBrecht from The Tea Party Review: I find this interesting since average Florida citizens funds our state government through sales taxes. The…
Buzz: Hayward to sign Levin firm
Mayor Ashton Hayward is set to hire a group headed by the Levin Papantonio Law firm to represent the City of Pensacola in its claims…
Class-size requirements may be gutted
The Florida Legislature is looking at a way to get around the class-size amendment. Two-thirds of the 849 core classes offered in elementary, middle and…
Amazing Grace on being the fool
Actress, poet and artist Grace Zabriskie spent the past week on the University of West Florida campus as an artist-in-residence. Last night, she fielded questions…
Buzz: Lawmakers worse than Spring Break
The word I get from Tallahassee is that our lawmakers are like college kids on Spring Break, They have no restraints. Lobby money is flowing…
“Merit” pay could be based on flawed system
Florida Tribune: Florida’s new performance pay law would put in place a evaluation system that has been questioned nationally. The teacher evaluation portion of the…
Wachovia laundered money for Mexican drug cartel
Something you won’t find in the local daily today: The Observer reported in its Sunday edition that Wachovia Bank laundered billions of dollars for the…
GOP continues to mix God and Politics
New York Times: Revitalizing the Religious Right was the agenda for a special meeting held in Iowa last month. The program, sponsored by the Iowa…
State Roundup: Sunday editions
Miami Herald: Florida Republicans are on pace to dismantle regulations, cut jobs and adopt significant changes to Medicaid and abortion rights — because they have…
Daily has good Sunday issue, plus ad first
The Pensacola News Journal scores high marks on its news coverage of the state retirement system proposals and the property tax giveaways. It also scored…
Other Local Embezzlement Cases
Tina Mitchell embezzled $856,126 from five local homeowners associations between 2006 and 2009 while she worked as an association representative for Montgomery Management Associates. She…
Thelma Manley: Background on the case
The daily newspaper claims as one of its victories the arrest and prosecution of Thelma Manley. They should. When the Front Porch board members brought…
Buzz: WALL-E quits, moves to court security
The robot nicknamed WALL-E, which is being credited with aiding in the peaceful end of an eight-hour standoff Thursday morning in Cantonment, has quit SWAT…
Apple adds breathalyzer APP to iPhones
Apple has a new application for its highly popular iPhone. The App converts the cellular phone to a breathalyzer. Using the tracking chip in the…
Rubio in the limelight
Florida’s junior U.S. senator, Marco Rubio, is taking led on the federal debt debate. According to the New York Times, in the space of 24…
Pensacola hosts USS destroyer…in Mobile
Press Release: The USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) will be commissioned June 4, 2011 at the Alabama State Port Authority docks in a ceremony…
Inweekly server down for maintenance
Crystal Tech, which hosts inweekly.net, is upgrading its servers. Our website should be back up by this afternoon.
Federal Audit: ECUA did not comply with grant requirements
According to a recently released audit, ECUA only spent $1.09 million of a $149.2 million federal grant for Main Street Wastewater Relocation Project with minority-owned…
