Buzz: BP workers get pay cut

We heard last night that BP workers have had their hourly pay rate cut by $4 by some of the contractors—from $18/hour to $14/hour.

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Other bands not for Rinke concert series

The News Journal writes that what developer Robert Rinke called a deposit on the Beach Boys on Monday was merely a $1000 check given to…

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BP Static Kill Helping Shares

The success of the “Static Kill” operation looks to be helping BP’s market shares. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the company is now…

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Buzz:Thomas and PNJ make issue new Chamber CEO’s residence

The daily newspaper is on the attack. The target: the newly-hired Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce CEO. The issue: John Hizer will be living…

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Donovan/Nobles PAC changes website

Marty Donovan and Jack Nobles have changed the website of their Political Action Committee. After receiving criticism for not correctly displaying the stadium, they re-shaded…

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Over 43 millions gallons of BP oil still in the Gulf

Before we praise BP and declare the disaster over, we still have crude in the Gulf. Even if NOAA report is correct and 75 percent…

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New study disproves Elebash viewpoints of the past five years

For more than half a decade, Save Our City guru C.C. Elebash has pointed to a 1997 report by the Brookings Institute that questioned cities…

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Fall Concert series?

Really? Beach Boys? Really?….I didn’t hear yesterday much enthusiasm for the Rinke concert idea. Now my readers aren’t into 60s nostalgia and many have already…

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Greene’s tales of yacht trip keep changing

Jeff Greene. Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, has a problem with what have been an illegal 2007 trip to Cuba aboard his 147-ft yacht. As…

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Gulf Hurting Long Before Spill

The USA Today ran a very good piece today on the decline of diversity in the Gulf of Mexico, long before the BP oil spill….

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PNJ Cooper nails BP Claims head

Pensacola News Journal reporter Louis Cooper tried to pin down BP VP Darryl Willis, who heads the oil giant’s claims processing, on how close is…

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Static kill begins

BP Release Date: 03 August 2010 HOUSTON – BP started injectivity testing today at 19:05 (UK) and 13:05 (CDT) in advance of static kill operations….

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