Author: Rick Outzen

Where did the greater Pensacola area have its biggest wins last week? The Santa Rosa Island Authority finally looking at plans for a public parking…

The three biggest news stories for last week were clearly the rejection of the half-cent sales tax for healthcare; the revelation of the magnitude of…

We moved into the #1 spot of BlogNetNews.com’s list of the Most Influential Political Blogs in Florida: BNN Influence Index. The Access Escambia issue is…

Station program director and the sole survivor of the Q100 morning crew – John Stuart – was let go by Cumulus on Friday. Q100 had…

SatDaily Dose PNJ has School FCAT scores. So do the Daily News and News Herald.

Here is one of the handouts given to the Escambia County Commissioners at the budget workshop yesterday. Note the commissioners wanted to return Escambia Community…

Escambia County Commission held its first budget workshop yesterday. WEAR TV focused on the cuts on funds given to non-profits like the Florida Wildlife Sanctuary,…

The county commissioners are working to stop in any cut in the Escambia Community Clinics. However, they should be working to increase what is spent….

FriDaily Dose PNJ:Derrick, Dr. Dino’s wife and no insurance drop. There is alliteration inside the Pensacola daily’s news coverage just have to understand the code….

Ernie Lee Magaha, Clerk of Courts, $4,676,281 (up 1.67%) but needs $2,111,446 from County general fund (up 15.9%) because his revenues are projected to be…

At the Escambia County commissioners budget workshop today, Sheriff Ron McNesby submitted $85,870,017 budget for next year. His current budget is $75,858,215. Sheriff’s Office $52,962,824 …

The Pensacola daily had an article on a proposed parking garage for Pensacola Beach. Here is a drawing of the garage’s location from Baskerville Donovan…

GoLeft.tv has an interview with Shauna Newell (Shauna’s Story of Slavery ): See Video

We just got a phone call that the county commissioners are discussing cutting the budget of the Escambia Community Clinics by $225,000. Escambia Co. already…

The reports from Tallahassee are that since March, the state has taken in millions less in sales taxes than it anticipated. The state collected nearly…

Here’s an idea that I’m surprised none of the local golf courses have tried yet – having strippers set up lap dance stations in between…

ThursDaily Dose Daily News has a coup – it has a copy of the report that concludes Air Force could save about $192.2 million if…

From IN reporter Mari Krueger: Drug wars have sparked a blame game in Century and Flomaton, two cities on the Florida-Alabama border. Flomaton Mayor Dewy…

1 Pleasant Grove Volunteer Fire Dept 151 320 2 Gulf Coast Christian Church 27 43 3 Myrtle Grove Baptist Church 114 284 4 Gull Point…

Not that this is really a surprise since they almost always are. The New York Times, CBS News and MTV conducted a poll of young…