Author: Rick Outzen
10 Big Issues in the 2024 Session
©2024 The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The 2024 legislative session ended Friday with an annual hanky-drop ceremony in the rotunda between the House…
More college sports coming to Pensacola
On WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen” this morning, I had Pensacola Sports CEO Ray Palmer and Blue Wahoos Senior Writer Bill Vilona. Palmer announced…
Pensacola EggFest gives $131,000 to local charities
Pensacola EggFest donated a record amount to local charities this past week after seeing massive participation in 2023. A record $131,000 was distributed to local…
Daily Outtakes: What bills died in Tally
Florida Politics has listed 25 bills that died in the 2024 session, which ends today. “Some center on hot-button issues sure to attract ample attention…
Real News 3/7/24
Pensacola City Councilman Charles Bare discusses how the city has lost community centers with gyms over the past decade. He would like to see more…
Plenty of baseball at Blue Wahoo Stadium, starting today
From Bill Vilona: Four weeks from Friday, the official start of the Blue Wahoos season happens. But we’ve got a lot going on at the…
Sun Belt and NAIA Buzz
App State, ULM, Southern Miss, and Louisiana all earned victories on Wednesday at the Pensacola Bay Center to punch their tickets to the quarterfinal round…
The Malcolm Yonge Demolition Debate
The Malcolm Yonge Gym has been demolished. The citizens who tried to get a citywide referendum on the demolition have not given up their fight….
Daily Outtakes: Malcolm Yonge gone, what’s next
As I reported, the Malcolm Yonge Gym demolition had started…and was mostly completed yesterday. I took this photo at 6 am today: Getting Up to…
Real News – 3/6/24
Coastal Carolina and Texas State collected victories in first-round action at the 2024 Hercules Tires Sun Belt Men’s Basketball Championship on Tuesday evening at the…
UWF joins Culture of Respect Collective
The University of West Florida has joined the eighth cohort of NASPA’s Culture of Respect Collective. The two-year program guides colleges and universities that have…
Breaking: Pensacola lands NAIA Soccer National Championship
NAIA to crown Women’s Soccer Champions at new home KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that it has…
Inweekly 3/7/24: Going NoLo
Going NoLo Changing the Way We Drink Have you ever skipped a night out because you didn’t feel like drinking? Or just ordered water because…
Demolition of Malcolm Yonge has begun
Two readers have notified us that the demolition of the Malcolm Yonge Gym has begun. Teresa Hill emailed us the above photo.
UWF Women lose heartbreaker
The UWF women’s basketball team suffered a 74-70 defeat at Auburn Montgomery in the first round of the Gulf South Conference Championship at the AUM…
Daily Outtakes: Bye, Nikki
Nikki Haley will announce today that she is suspending her presidential bid, according to several media sources. Why it matters: Haley’s results on Super Tuesday…
Real News 3/5/24
Mayor D.C. Reeves shares his takeaways from last week’s trip to New Orleans, his plans for Malcolm Yonge site and the opening of Bruce Beach…
Salzman fought for Dozier survivors
The White House Boys — men who were raped, beaten and tortured as children at the state-run Dozier School for Boys in Marianna – will…
DeSantis sends troops to control spring breakers
At a press conference in Miami Beach, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he would deploy 140 state troopers and 24 Quick Response FHP Troopers to popular…
Kathy Denkler Scholarship Fund
Family and friends have established a scholarship fund in the memory of Kathy Denkler. The fund will cover the tuition at the National Flight Academy,…
