Next week, Escambia County Property Appraiser Chris Jones will send out his projections on the property assessments to the city of Pensacola and Escambia County. The final numbers won’t come to until…
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Newpoint schools get the ax
The Escambia County School Board voted last night to terminate the charter contracts of Newpoint Pensacola High and Newpoint Academy, each by a 4-1 vote. The board unanimously agreed to postpone its…
PS Today: Alachua County Education Compact
Today, we will interview Ian Fletcher, VP of Workforce Development at the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, the Alachua County Education Compact. We will discuss how Alachua leaders have joined forces to…
Groups file brief in Pensacola to support feds in LIP lawsuit
Pointing to their knowledge about Medicaid-related issues, three Florida groups Monday asked a judge to allow them to file a brief on behalf of the federal government in a lawsuit that centers…
Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair, May 21
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will host a job fair Thursday, May 21 for service members, veterans and military spouses at the Lou Ross Gymnasium at Pensacola State College, 1000 College…
HCA offers a solution to health care crisis
HCA, the for-profit health care system that Rick Scott once served as its CEO, has sent a letter to the governor offering a solution to replace the Low Income Pool. HCA has…
Alachua County leaders join together for better public education
The Alachua County School District has been a “C” district for the past two years. Yesterday, Alachua County community leaders, educators and elected officials signed an agreement committing to work together to…
Gaetz reports on his bills: what did or did not make it to the governor
From State Sen. Don Gaetz: What happened during the Regular Session: Overall, 1,755 bills were introduced in the Senate this year. Two hundred twenty passed. While it’s certainly not a tragedy that…
Will Newpoint pay its teachers?
Tonight the Escambia County School Board will vote on whether the district should send 90-day termination notices to the three charter schools run by Newpoint Education Partners (NEP). The schools will have…
PS Today: SaintPetersBlog.com
Peter Schorsch, creator of SaintPetersBlog.com, will be on the show today. He has been watching the Jeff Miller situation: If Jeff Miller runs for Senate, North Florida dominoes will begin to fall….
PS Podcast: Charter schools cashing in on kids
On Pensacola Speaks, I spoke with Miami Herald investigative reporter Kathleen McGrory on her coverage on charter schools. She and Scott Hiaasen worked together in September 2011 on the series “Cashing In…
Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic opens today
The Barbara Grice Memorial Spay & Neuter Clinic at the Pensacola Humane Society opened today. Executive Director Sarah Humlie stated that the project was the dream of the late Barbara Grice, former…
League elects new state president
The League of Women Voters over the weekend elected a new leader – Pamela Goodman, a former Palm Beach County League President and businesswoman. She succeeds Deirdre Macnab, whose term expired. Goodman…
CLC strongly considering Senate bid
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera (CLC) publicly confirmed Saturday that he is “strongly considering” a U.S. Senate bid in 2016, drawing closer to throwing his…
Appears Hovind trial will not begin today
As the daily newspaper reports today, the retrial of Kent Hovind and Paul John Hansen on fraud and conspiracy charges was scheduled to commence on Monday. However, the U.S. Attorney Pamela Marsh…
Evidence against Newpoint schools compelling
For an hour and 45 minutes, Escambia County School District staff went over evidence at Friday’s school board workshop that documented the district’s case to terminate the contracts of Newpoint Pensacola High,…
Miller courts support at RPOF quarterly meeting
The odds of Congressman Jeff Miller running for U.S. Senate got a little better Friday night. The U.S. representative from Chumuckla attended the quarterly meeting of the Republican Party of Florida–something he…
County shuts down Rolling Hills
Press Release: Update on the Status of Rolling Hills Construction and Demolition Debris Landfill Friday, May 15, 2015 – 3:15pm Escambia County regrets to announce that it will be enforcing the Final…
Gaetz: ‘Continuation budgets; that’s Washington talk’
State Sen. Don Gaetz (R-Niceville) mocked Governor Rick Scott’s efforts to force Florida hospitals to share their revenues with less profitable facilities. On the radio show “Pensacola Speaks, he said, “When Governor…
Scott begins hospital witch hunt May 20
Gov. Rick Scott’s newly created panel on health-care funding is scheduled to spend 90 minutes next week receiving overviews of issues such as hospital financial data, the Low Income Pool and what…