Author: Rick Outzen
Early learning critical to reading improvement
I received this email from the head of the Early Learning Coalition: Rick, I believe the facts in your 6/2/11 Buzz article are correct. However,…
Escambia County avoids budget crisis
Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver stopped by the IN offices to discuss the 2011-12 budget. The good news is the budget is balanced without a…
Warrington Middle’s turnaround still hasn’t happened
Warrington Middle is still struggling. The one bright spot was its FCAT reading score for its eighth grade– 8 percent more scoring 3 or higher….
Escambia Middle Schools have similar results in reading
Warrington Middle finished at the bottom Sixth Seventh Eighth Total STATEWIDE AVG. 67 68 55 190 BROWN BARGE MIDDLE SCHOOL 94 95 84 273 RANSOM…
Four Escambia Middle Schools best state average in math
Escambia County has nine public middle schools. Four of them beat the state average for students who scored 3 or higher on the math portion…
Little or improvement in FCAT math
As with reading, Escambia School District was below the state average for percentage of students who score 3 or above on the math tests. Seventh…
Little improvement in FCAT reading, grades 4-10
The FCAT reading scores show a slight improvement for Escambia County, but all its grades, except for ninth, had a lower percentage of students score…
Escambia/Pensacola gets EPA brownfield grants
Press Release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it will award a total of $7 million in Brownfields grants to 10 communities…
Test results on local oysters
From Emerald Coastkeepers: Through funding from Gulf Coast Fund and our members, Emerald Coastkeeper has initiated a long-term oyster sampling project. Every six months we…
May jobs reinforces moderate growth
From John Peacock, Edward Jones advisor: I want to share our perspective on the May jobs numbers. Below are comments from our investment strategist, Kate…
Another email in support of Koss
Editor: I haven’t written your publication before because I let you slide on most things, but when I noticed that you had Commander Dave Koss,…
Jobs budget cuts jobs
Sarasota Herald Tribune reports that the state budget which goes into effect on July—the one Gov. Rick Scott has proclaimed as the jobs budget– will…
Tropical disturbance in Caribbean
From Sun Sentinel: The National Hurricane Center has called off a planned flight Monday by a U.S. Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter plane to investigate…
More Clearwire leaving Milton
GeekWire has another take on Clearwire backing out of its expansion commitment in Milton and outsourcing its call center to TeleTech Holdings. The Milton shift…
June 2 Winners & Losers catches heat
We made former Blue Angels loser last week in our Winners & Losers column. Not all our readers agreed. From retired Adm. Robert Kelly: “Hope…
Palin screws up American History
According to Tea Party sweetheart, Sarah Palin, Paul Revere rode through Boston ringing a bell to warn “the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’…
Sarasota lose proposed Jackson Lab, 3,000 jobs
Jackson Laboratory, currently based in Maine, had requested for $100 million in state funding, for a proposed biomedical village in Sarasota County. By 2031, the…
Buzz: Neumann to bail on WEAR TV 3 (spelling corrected)
Reporter Greg Neumann is rumored to be leaving Channel 3. He is heading back to his home state, Wisconsin, to work for a station in…
Hayward appoints pension advisory board
Press Release: As part of Mayor Ashton Hayward’s 20 Solutions for 2011 campaign platform to address lingering pension problems with the City’s various employee pension…
Buzz: Escambia High in lockdown
A parent just called to tell me that Escambia High School went into lockdown this morning. An armed trespasser was seen on campus. Escambia County…
