Author: Rick Outzen
Timeline: County had a Gun Crime Response Team in 2012
The last time Escambia County had a multi-agency task force targeting gun-related crimes was seven years ago. Sheriff David Morgan announced the “crime response team 
LaBounty joins Ark State staff
Press release: Arkansas State head baseball coach Tommy Raffo announced the addition of Drew LaBounty to his staff as a Volunteer Assistant, Monday. “We are…
Safety for one neighborhood, not another
Cervantes Street has a new crosswalk that stops traffic for pedestrians to cross the street safely from a multi-residential housing. Before you celebrate, the crosswalk…
BB&T and Suntrust to merge
BB&T Corp.’s $29.7 billion purchase of SunTrust Banks Inc. received near unanimous approval Tuesday from both banks’ shareholders. The corporate name of the combined bank…
Bay bridge shifts Sunday evening
The traffic shift for U.S. 98 eastbound traffic (Pensacola to Gulf Breeze) to the new Pensacola Bay Bridge is scheduled to begin Sunday evening, Aug. 4…
Sheriff fills in for lack of campus security officers
According to Col. Mindy Young, Escambia County School District is down to 13 candidates in training to be campus security officers–a drop from the 18…
Pensacola Entrepreneur Initiative
Effort to be led by D.C. Reeves, co-founder Perfect Plain Brewing Company Press Release: Northwest Florida has many great components to start and grow small…
Retailers ready for back-to-school tax ‘holiday’
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s retail industry is gearing up for this year’s back-to-school sales tax “holiday†on clothes,…
Backpack fundraiser – Aug. 1
In partnership with Ryan and Ellis Group at Merrill Lynch and South Market, Feeding the Gulf Coast will be hosting a happy hour at the…
District chooses to allocate less to teachers’ salaries
Government officials can always find money for what the items they want to fund. Santa Rosa and Okaloosa school districts have allocated the funds to…
Thomas defends millage cut, ignores capital needs
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas defended his rollback of the millage rate to the Pensacola News Journal saying the revenue cut couldn’t have improved teachers’ salaries. Thomas…
State Rep deletes Twitter account
State Rep. Mike Hill has deleted his controversial Twitter account, @MikeHillFL. Hill had blocked several journalists, including Andy Marlette and me, from seeing his tweets,…
Superintendent confirms campus safety problem
Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas told WEAR TV that out of the over 100 applicants only 18 passed the screening process to be…
Buzz: District has shortage of campus safety officers
The talk among the sheriff’s deputies is the Escambia County School District may not have enough campus security guards to protect all the district’s public…
WEAR TV 3 reads blog
The local Sinclair station apparently reads Rick’s Blog. Channel 3 announced at its 11 am newscast that the station will be digging deeper into the…
Buzz: GBHS hires former Wahoo
Gulf Breeze High School has hired former Pensacola Blue Wahoo Travis Mattair as its new baseball coach. Mattair, age 30, played in 788 pro baseball…
Struggling district cuts millage
Parents have contacted Inweekly about the Escambia County School Board’s vote yesterday to cut the millage from 6.325 in 2018-2019, to 6.043 in 2019-2020. In…
Opioid Crisis: Who sold most opioids in our area?
The Drug Enforcement Administration has a database that tracks every single pain pill sold in the United States — by manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies…
Timeline: Satterwhite’s contribution
Inweekly has been blessed with many gifted writers. Christopher Scott Satterwhite has provided a scholarly approach to his work. It comes naturally to Satterwhite, since…
Newpoint scandal: District ‘asleep’ while millions stolen
Last year, Marcus May, the founder of Newpoint Education Partners, was convicted of stealing over $5.2 million through a complicated scheme involving Newpoint-managed charter schools…
