Author: Rick Outzen
Bay Co. builds $9M library
The News Herald reports the construction of the new $9 million, 55,000-square-foot Bay County Public Library is on schedule and will be completed by April…
Feds kill geese at Tiger Point
The Ft. Walton Beach Daily News reports: The disappearance of about 50 Canada geese from the Tiger Point Golf and Country Club was at first…
Budgeting for Dummies
The Independent News has come up with its ideas for government budgets (Ballsy Plan IV ). Suggestions range from privatization to annexation to consolidation. The…
Panhandle news roundup
News Journal reports a former Catholic High School teacher is charged with using a mirror to look under a woman’s skirt at a Pensacola bookstore…
No criminal investigation on VFD stipends
From Duwayne Escobedo: Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille says no criminal investigation of overpayments of stipends to volunteer firefighters is being conducted right now. “At…
What’s happening with public library?
In March 2006, Escambia County voters approved the sales tax extension that included $34.6 million for libraries and community centers. To date, nothing has been…
Mobile grows by 50 acres
From Moblie Register: One of the westernmost points of the Mobile city limits will creep a little closer to Schillinger Road when an annexation approved…
Panhandle news roundup
WedsDaily Dose Gulf County Sheriff resigns. WalMart won’t give up on Mary Esther store. Dog mauls owners. Another typical Wednesday news day.
Outzen hits 50
From the IN staff: For the first time in three generations, an Outzen male has reached the ripe old age of 50. We had a…
Sac Bee will require real names for comments
There is growing debate whether newspapers should require people to use their real names when they comment on articles on the papers’ websites. The Sacramento…
Baldwin County: Something in the water
The Mobile Press Register reports that swimmers are being attacked by jellyfish, sea lice and something yet to determined in the waters off the Baldwin…
Panhandle news roundup
TuesDaily Dose Copeland’s becomes the restaurant closing that just won’t go away as Federal Trade Commission steps in. Another Pensacola area cemetery is vandalized. News…
Pay raises aren’t the answer
or at least not entirely. We hear from both the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and the school district that we need to raise salaries for…
Panhandle news roundup
MonDaily Dose Gulf Power likes new ECUA plant. Woman kidnapped in downtown Fort Walton Beach. Ingall’s Shipyard is in trouble with Navy over cost overruns.
Panhandle news roundup
Pensacola News Journal continues its series on the Last Navy Officers Candidates Recruits. Also catches up on the Copeland’s papers story that WEAR reported Friday. …
Panhandle news roundup
Pensacola may lose The Zoo. The Gulf Breeze Zoological Society needs to raise $3M by year-end to keep it open. Hurricanes and years of running…
Presidential candidates on healthcare
The NY Times (Graphic: Candidates on Health Care ) has a great table on the positions of the various presidential candidates on healthcare: Republicans: Sam…
Gannett tightens up more
The alt-weekly in Burlington, VT reports that its local Gannett-owned daily newspaper, Burlington Free Press, has initiated more cost cutting measures: eliminating free parking for…
Scarborough, Miller entertain Thompson
IN cover boy, Joe Scarborough, Congressman Jeff Miller and Collier Merrill entertained potential GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson last night at The Fish House. He…
Panhandle news roundup
FridayDaily Dose Pensacola daily tells its readers to leave their trailers during hurricanes, but says nothing about the car on blocks in the front yard….
