Category: News
Hacker hacks Escambia County School District’s websites
Last night, hacker “N3td3v!l” replaced several of the Escambia County School District’s websites with a page that stated “We Love Iran” and images of a…
Education insanity, no home rule
The Okaloosa County School system wants to start classes on August 4. State says they can’t do so. The state legislature passed few couple years…
Buzz: Communications consolidation will work
How can Mayor Hayward be so sure? Because it has been done successfully in Mobile, Ala. Hayward had lunch yesterday with Mike Dow, the strong…
Functional Consolidation beginning
Press Release: County Administrator Randy Oliver, Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan, Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Chief of Staff John Asmar, and Pensacola Police Chief Chip Simmons…
Buzz: GBMS out at 1:30 pm next school year
The daily newspaper wrote about the Santa Rosa public schools dropping a period for both the middle and high schools. The savings will help the…
Breaking News: Giant Bin Laden Destroys New York, Washington
The Onion reports that 500-Foot Terrorist Emerges From Sea To Wreak Havoc On U.S. Just weeks after his body was buried at sea, Osama bin…
FCAT scores release tomorrow
The Department of Education will release the results of the Spring 2011 FCAT 2.0 Grade 3 Reading and Mathematics assessments tomorrow, May 26th, at approximately…
Little turkey for the panhandle
Florida TaxWatch recommended the governor veto 105 “turkeys,†projects it said were either added to the budget after bypassing normal review processes or were not…
Badlands VI – Bella (view) version
Press Release: The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office and The Las Brisas Neighborhood Watch, along with other agencies, will conduct an “Operation Clean Sweep†event on…
Greater Escambia Community Foundation Awarded $500,000
Press Release: The Greater Escambia Community Foundation announced today that they have received a $500,000 grant from the Fund for Gulf Communities (“the Fundâ€) to…
Race – more than concerts
George Hawthorne is upset with me for questioning Mr. “Cadillac” Banks’ concert proposal. We have this battle much too often–fighting over small dollars while bigger…
DeLuna Fest Scavenger Hunt
DeLuna Fest is releasing the line up on Tuesday, May 31 with a ticket giveaway scavenger hunt and party. The DeLuna Fest Lineup Release “Mission…