Author: Rick Outzen
Viewpoint: This cycling enthusiast votes ‘no’ on Summit proposal
By Gary Sammons At the behest of two city council members (Jared Moore and Jennifer Brahier), the city council voted to spend up to $75,000…
Daily Outtakes: DeSantis on the telly
DeSantis to do Interviews The Wall Street Journal reports that Gov. Ron DeSantis will begin to do interviews with newspapers and media outside his safe…
Real News: Friday, July 7
An update released Thursday by the Colorado State University tropical forecast team calls for 18 storms, nine of which are expected to become hurricanes and…
Daily Outtakes: Not much help on healthcare
Tackling Healthcare Senate President Kathleen Passidomo wants to take steps during the 2024 legislative session to tackle healthcare access. On the “Deeper Dive with Dara…
Meet the Warrington Prep principal
Warrington Preparatory Academy has hired Erica Foster as its founding principal. Why this matters: Charter Schools USA took over Warrington Middle School in June, and…
Daily Outtakes: Filling in the news gaps
Officer on Paid Leave The officer that shot and killed a suspect in Cantonment last week is on paid administrative leave pending the results of…
DeSantis publishes invalid out-of-state license classes
Governor Ron DeSantis announced today the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has published a list of out-of-state license classes that are…
Daily Outtakes: Safe Streets, Scary Sea
The City of Pensacola’s Draft Active Transportation Plan is now available for review and comment. Its purpose is to create comfortable streets for people walking,…
Escambia Math Scores reveal failure to keep pace
Escambia County students in grades 3-8 performing at or above grade level were only two percentage points behind the state average at the beginning of…
Viewpoint: For Summit Boulevard, it’s safety in numbers
By Phil Nickinson We need to make up our minds. Do we want our streets to be slower and safer? Or faster and more dangerous?…
Daily Outtakes: Trump Rallies Rare
Don’t Expect Another Trump Rally Here…yet Donald Trump isn’t holding as many campaign rallies as his GOP opponents or as many as he has in…
Last Word: Shelley Yates
Shelley Yates Inweekly, 1/11/2007 The Pensacola product grew up in advertising, she says, spending many days at her father Cooper Yates’ firm. Today, she heads…
Another fun Friday show
It’s the end of an era – the last Indiana Jones movie starring Harrison Ford opens in theaters this weekend. Jason Nathanson shares his thoughts…
Middle School dismal ELA scores
The City of Pensacola has some of the highest-performing elementary schools in the Escambia County School District. However, the one middle school inside the city…
Daily Outtakes: Middle School Morass
The state Department of Education on Thursday published the first round of results from Florida’s new “progress monitoring” system of student assessments in public schools….
Last Word: Kim Kimbrough
In July 2005, we started “The Last Word,” a column in which locals answer questions about themselves. It was patterned after Vanity Fair’s The Proust…
Buzz: Santa Rosa Medical without power
Santa Rosa Medical Center is without power. Escambia County EMS is helping transport 50 patients to HCA Florida West. The county is using its ambulances…
Another All-Way Stop
The City of Pensacola will install two new stop signs on Thursday, July 6 at the intersection of Government Street and Jefferson Street, which will…
Coughlin, Merritt weigh-in on transportation, shipping
This morning, I opened with issues impacting the Pensacola International Airport and the Port of Pensacola. Airport Director Matt Coughlin and Port Director Clark Merritt…
Local defense contractor honored
The Florida Department of the American Legion awarded their annual Employer of Veterans award to ESA South (ESA), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in…
