Author: Rick Outzen
Top MuckReads
And finally, here are this week’s top must-read stories from MuckReads, ProPublica’s ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism. Anyone can contribute by tweeting a…
Week’s Best Reads from The Daily Beast
From the GOP’s unprecedented, big-money-backed crusade to keep Democrats from voting next year to the trail of human wreckage left by reality television, The Daily…
Florida Politics Week in Review
Among this week’s highlights: A fleeting budget surplus and dropping consumer confidence, a looming budget deficit for one agency and ongoing negotiations over the future…
Blue Wahoos One Step Closer to Opening Day
Press Release: Minor League Baseball is one step closer to Pensacola, after a meeting of team owners from the Southern League of Minor League Baseball…
Tropical Strom Update
Press Release: Tropical Storm Lee Update #2 Emergency management staff are currently monitoring and preparing for any possible impacts to Santa Rosa County from Tropical…
Just in time for the oil sheen, BP has a new ad
Press Release: BP has launched a new series of ads designed to promote tourism along the Gulf Coast. The ads feature spokespersons from Louisiana, Mississippi,…
Economics Club takes a shift far right
Gulf Coast Economics Club brings in policy advisor, Christian Camara, from right-wing Heartland Institute, which has been backed by the Koch Brothers. The Heartland Institute…
Cronimet to invest $5 million in Pensacola area
Press Release: The Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce announces the addition of Cronimet Corporation to the Pensacola Bay Area. Cronimet plans to add fifteen…
Who lays pipe the best?
Though the industry sometimes touts natural gas drilling as dominated by small businesses, the 10 largest drillers account for one-third of all domestic production. ProPublica…
Mediacom still without Fox 10
And nobody seems to care. Unlike the WEAR TV 3 negotiations with cable company that serves most of Santa Rosa County, no one appears to…
Man behind Scott’s new image
St. Pete Times profiles today Steve McNamara, the man behind Gov. Rick Scott’s new image. McNamara is Scott’s Chief of Staff. Read more.
Saenger brings back movies
Press Release: The Saenger Theatre will sponsor a free showing of the movie and musical comedy “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the…
Blog has record month
We had 27,139 unique visitors. Total visitors (excluding traffic generated by robots) 96,600. Page views 472, 955. Our bounce rate is 6.3 percent. If you…
Downtown moratorium
Tattoo parlors, restaurant chain cannibals, what’s next? Maybe somebody will bring back the Red Garter. For all its parking tickets, the Downtown Improvement Board and…
Seahawk Doug Baldwin credits PNJ publisher
The Kitsap Sun credits PNJ Publisher Kevin Doyle and former Buffalo Bills’ head coach Kay Stephenson for GBHS grad Doug Baldwin’s scholarship to Stafford and…
Gulf seabed: ‘Slimy, Soupy Mess” (video)
CNN International interviewed Dr. Samantha (Mandy) Joye who is part of a group of scientists from Georgia and Florida that are studying the sea-floor in…
Buzz: Mayor creates Pensacola challenge coin
Mayor Ashton Hayward now carries a challenge coin bearing the seal of the City of Pensacola. For a military town like Pensacola that are fitting….
State GOP chair resigns
Sun-Sentinel reports the state Republican Party chairman, David Bitner, is resigning because he has Lou Gehrig’s disease. “Something I would never allow to happen on…
Eyes on tropical trough in Gulf
According to the National Hurricane Center, a large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms over the eastern Gulf of Mexico, which is associated with a trough…
