Category: News
New UWF VP
Press Release: University of West Florida President Judith A. Bense this week announced the appointment of Matthew D. Altier to vice president for administrative services,…
Drink Beer, Save the Coast
Press Release: SweetWater Brewery and Goldring Gulf Distributors are teaming with Emerald Coastkeeper’s and Mobile Baykeeper’s to raise money to help with Gulf Coast restoration…
Local GOP to causus
Press Release: – The Escambia County Republican Executive Committee announced today the date and location to select delegates from Escambia County to participate in the…
FDOE raises school grading scale
The State Board of Education yesterday approved a plan to slowly bump up A-to-F grading standards, so schools will need to do better to earn…
PYP Whitepaper: BP Oil Spill’s impact on Tourism
Press Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 17, 2011) – On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and leaked…
What election fraud?
My May 12 Outtakes, “Fixing Elections,” focused on what I considered the changes to Florida’s Election laws–changes I believe had little to do with improving…
What is best school district in Florida Panhandle?
Not Santa Rosa or Okaloosa….it’s Walton County. The State Board of Education approved the designation of 13 Florida school districts as 2011-12 Academically High Performing…
Pictures of 2011 Mississippi River Flood
A friend sent me a link to this website, Lloyd’s Donaldson Point River Watch. It shows three pictures of the same house – 2007, 2008…
Buzz: Hubbs-Sea World touring city
Officials from Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute are in Pensacola today looking at possible locations for their new research center.
Audits reveal mortgage companies may have committed fraud
Huffington Post reports a set of confidential federal audits conducted Department of Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies–…
Haliburton Engineer refuses to testify
Bloomberg is reporting that Jesse Gagliano, a technical adviser who was Halliburton’s cementing engineer on the Deepwater Horizon rig, evoked the Fifth Amendment when he…
