Visiting Dauphin Island,Ala. today. No tarballs, shore lined with hay. BP has a staging area under heavy security. Controversy over BP contractor using work release inmates. Mayor upset he wasn’t notified. The…
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News: BP buses in workers for Obama visit
WDSU in New Orleans is reporting: Officials from Jefferson Parish claim BP bused 400 cleanup workers into Grand Isle on Friday in time for a visit from President Barack Obama. Read more
Nodine sits in jail
…and, according to the Mobile Press Register, the Feds want to keep him there. The former Mobile County Commissioner resigned this past week to avoid an impeachment trial. He has been indicted…
Buzz: Crist moves TDC meeting
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has moved the meeting with tourism officials from Northwest Florida from today to Sunday. It’s anticipated that he will announce his plan to split the $25M that Tony…
Buzz: Top kill is failing
My engineering sources are saying the top kill option isn’t working. They can’t overcome the pressure from the oil. We will have to endure this farce for at least another 24 hours.
Coastkeeper update
Press release: Flow rate update, with information from the Incident Command: The National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) has developed an independent estimate for the rate at which oil is…
City Attorney memo: City Council has some control over BP boom ops
Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells has sent the City Council a memo, “Pensacola-Based Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cleanup Measures,” that while the City can’t stop BP from setting up its boom cleaning…
FLRA launches Coast is Clear campaign
While Gov. Crist plays politics and misses the opportunity to help Gulf Coast businesses on this four-day weekend and WEAR/Sinclair offers a too little-too late promo campaign with its sister stations, the…
WEAR TV will promote clean beaches next week
Press release from WEAR TV: WEAR ABC 3 TO SPREAD THE WORD THAT OUR BEACHES ARE CLEAN AND CLEAR Pensacola, FL –WEAR ABC 3 is going to help get the word out…
Buzz: Crist drops match requirement
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist may be rethinking his plans for spending the $25 million that BP gave the state for tourism advertising. A memorandum of understanding has been drafted for the Governor…
Emotions run high, Anybody seen Miller?
Rep. Charlie Melancon gets emotional while talking about the impact of the Gulf oil spill on his state.
Thomas barely holds on to Paul FCAT gains
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas dismisses the one point drop in FCAT reading scores for third graders in the Friday edition of the BP marketing solution, Pensacola News Journal. Thomas tells the PNJ that…
Three Little Pigs, Friday roundup
Montreal Gazette: “According to Florida publisher Rick Outzen, writing in the dailybeast.com..” Read more Notes from Grumpy Old Man (not C.C. Elebash): Obama Doctrine – “This is a story about the Three…
What’s up with Jerralds?
Pensacola City Councilman John Jerralds apologized at last night’s council meeting to BP for the council’s harsh response Monday to BP spokeswoman Liz Castro last Monday, according to the News Journal. Jerralds…
Devilliers Night – Tonight
Press Release: Pensacola, Florida: The Devilliers Cultural Heritage Museum will host Devilliers Night, Friday, May 28, 2010 by featuring the superb Neo-Soul Gospel group ‘KMM’ (Kingdom Minded Minstrels) and Christian Poet, ‘Wizdom’….
Uncensored photos of BP oil disaster
From Michael O’Donovan: I had the privilege to fly today from Gulf Shores out to the BP well site, over the Mississippi delta, and coastal islands with Dr Steven Smith and Dr…
BP: “We have not stopped the flow.”
We may have spoken too soon. Operation Top Kill could take 24-48 more hours before we know if it has worked. In the top kill maneuver, a 30,000-horsepower engine aboard a ship…
Crist withholds funds for Panhandle
Gov. Charlie Crist will be on Pensacola Beach tomorrow for an appearance on Fox & Friends around 7:15 a.m. Shortly after that national TV appearance, Crist will announce that none of the…
BP Protest Downtown
About 30 people showed up for a scheduled protest of BP in Plaza Ferdinand. The group known as Hear Our Voice To Save Our Coast, carried signs and wore shirts that expressed…
Benefit for Bobbie
Press Release from Big Easy Tavern: Bobbie Shiver is a vibrant 26 year old Milton native that has been battling a tumor that is located in her Pituitary gland. She was diagnosed…