Category: News
Library, Smithsonian Launch Civil Rights History Project Website
Press Release: The American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)…
BP denies oil from Deepwater well
Press Release: On Aug. 25, 2011, BP confirmed through a standard visual wellhead inspection that there is no release of oil from the Macondo well…
Details on the huge Offshore Inland ship at the port
Here is the link on the ship that docked at the Port of Pensacola this morning: http://www.globalind.com/Documents/Operations/Vessels/Global_1200_WEB09.pdf
BonfireJam Tickets To Go On Sale At Pen Air and Walgreen’s
Press release: The Second Annual BonfireJam, scheduled Dec. 10, will begin pre-selling tickets at all Pen Air Federal Credit Union branches and 29 area Walgreens,…
City of Margate has 110 firefighters
City of Margate, Florida has 53,284 population. The operating budget for the fire department is $9.69 million and it has 112 employees, of which 110…
Is Pensacola Fire Department top heavy?
Council President Maren Deweese wants to bring back the fire rescue units. If her facts hold up, she has a compelling case. If the rest…
Leaking oil is from Deepwater Horizon
Mobile Press Register reports scientific analysis has confirmed that oil bubbling up above BP’s sealed Deepwater Horizon well in recent days is a chemical match…
LeaP Forward banquet
Over 120 people attended the second annual IN LeaP Forward banquet that was held to honor and challenge the incoming Leadership Pensacola class. They listened…
What I missed of the City Council workshop
PNJ’s Jamie Page had to sit through the entire Pensacola City Council workshop. In reading his article, “Council members leave budget meeting over bickering,” my…
Reggie Dogan leaves PNJ
It appears the daily newspaper let Dogan go for using excerpts from an Education Week article (December 2000) for his Sunday column. Read more.
New Conceptual Redistricting Maps Available Online
Three new Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioners redistricting conceptual maps are now available online at www.santarosa.fl.gov/redistricting. The maps were created based on public input…
South has highest divorce rate
The South has the highest rate of divorce and the Northeast has the lowest, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report that based its…