Category: News
Battle over health plan brewing
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas was elected due largely to the teachers, who wanted a change from the Jim Paul regime. Thomas kept most of the Jim…
More judge nominees
Press Release: FIRST CIRCUIT JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE IN SANTA ROSA COUNTY The First Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission has nominated…
Santa Rosa To Sell All Of Its Glass
John Tonkin, executive director of the Santa Rosa County Clean Community System, Inc., tells IN that on Friday it will begin selling all of the…
Cazadores owners indicted
Press Release A federal indictment has been returned charging the husband and wife owners of Cazadores Mexican Restaurants in Pensacola, Florida with conspiring to commit…
Buzz: BP moving all clean up operations to Bayou Chico
The other bit of news that I’m hearing through the grapevine is that BP will be expanding its operations at Bayou Chico and moving more…
Buzz: White and Valentino at it again
We’re hearing that Escambia County Commissioner Kevin White wants to appoint Karen Sindel to the county planning board and fellow commissioner, Gene Valentino, isn’t happy….
Feinberg Pays Out $10 Million So Far
Reuters reports that Ken Feinberg, who took over the BP claims process on Aug. 23, has forked out nearly $10 million in emergency payouts to…
Dispersant found in weathered oil
Mobile Press Register reports that material was collected by a group of scientists off of Horn Island, Miss. has tested positive for several of the…
Bare, Mack endorsements not as helpful as you might think
To get elected Mayor of Pensacola, Mike Wiggins and Ashton Hayward will need between 10,000 to 15,000 votes, based on the voter turnout over the…
Tell us your fake id story
Over the past few days I’ve heard dozens of fake id stories: how people got them, how stupid the names were and how they got…
ECUA Puts “Green†Vehicle On Road
This week the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority introduced a new hybrid sanitation vehicle to its fleet—hoping to cut costs and help the environment by using…
Pensacola a “Forgotten City”
MIT researchers recently released a study that named America’s 150 forgotten cities. The analysis is based on being a medium sized city/metropolitan area and failing…
