The News Herald, Panama City’s daily newspaper, is discontinuing, effective tomorrow, its anonymous commenting system in favor of one tied to Facebook. To comment you must have a Facebook account. “This isn’t…
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Hayward proposes a reduction in Sanitation surcharge
Mayor Ashton Hayward is recommending to the Pensacola City Council a reduction in the sanitation fuel surcharge from $2.10/mo. to $1.50/mo. beginning Oct. 1. The Council will consider it at Monday’s Committee…
PNJ circulation down nearly 32 percent
According to the Gannett Blog, the Pensacola News Journal has seen its weekday circulation drop 31.66 percent from 2000-2010, which is about 19,890 copies. It’s based on data published by the company…
Jeb Bush partners with BP clean up responder
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, through his firm Old Rhodes Holdings LLC, and O’Brien’s Response Management (O’Brien’s) have announced a strategic partnership. O’Brien’s handled some of the clean-up operations of last year’s…
This week’s #MuckReads
Here are this week’s top must-read stories from #MuckReads, ProPublica’s ongoing collection of the best watchdog journalism.
Buzz: John Powell no longer head of Florida ABT
John Powell, Republican candidate for Escambia County Sheriff, no longer is listed by Gov. Rick Scott as the head of his director for the Division of Alcohol Beverages & Tobacco. When you…
Pearl Harbor Honor Flight Initiative – “One Last Goodbye”
Press Release: The Pearl Harbor Honor Flight to Hawaii is for six remaining Pensacola area active Pearl Harbor Survivors to participate and be celebrated in the 70th anniversary of Japan’s attack on…
Chevron/BP hit oil at new well site
Digital Review reports Chevron and BP have announced a new oil discovery in the “prolific†Lower Tertiary Trend, located in the Gulf of Mexico deepwaters 216 miles off the Louisiana coast. Read…
New Book: Palin cheated, snorted…
Joe McGinniss’ new book, ‘The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin,’ claims GOP presidential heartthrob had a fling with future NBA star Glen Rice, snorted cocaine off 55-gal. drum and cheated…
Chamber to delay permanent search for Tourism VP
From Jim Hizer, Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce President/CEO: I have received several calls regarding this quote from yesterday’s press release…. “We are prepared to conduct a national search for a…
Drug possession law unconstitutional?
Circuit Judge Scott Brownell in Manatee County threw out 42 felony drug possession cases, ruling that Florida’s drug possession statute is unconstitutional. This comes on the heels a Miami circuit court judge…
IMPACT 100 names 10 semi-finalists
IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local women’s philanthropy group is pleased to announce that ten grant finalists for 2011 have been selected by five Focus Committees. The organization is pleased to…
Meet the Coastkeeper
Jamie Rodgers is a graduate of the University of West Florida with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry. She began as a volunteer at Emerald Coastkeeper and was recently offered the Coastkeeper position…
Only in Pensacola…
…would the daily newspaper help run off a multiple year, award-winning tourism director, weeks after his operation had the best months for tourism in the county’s history.
Florida bouncing back, Pensacola seen as expanding market
Wells Fargo sees Pensacola as an expanding market as the Florida bounces back. Overall employment in the Sunshine State’s leisure and hospitality industry is up 5.8 percent over the past year, while…
Time to look at Tourism
Before the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce hires a new VP of Tourism, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners needs to look at how it wants to handle tourism marketing and…
How GOP Crippled Our Postal Service
The last great union for government employees is the U.S. Postal Service. For 44 cents, you can have a letter delivered to anyone in the country–whether they have a computer or not….
Schroeder out, Scruggs in
Press Release: Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce announces former business executive, Terry Scruggs, as interim vice president of tourism. Ed Schroeder, former vice president of tourism was placed on administrative leave…
If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball
Press Release: The Pelicans Training Academy will start its first Adult Dodgeball League this fall. The league’s regular season begins on October 4th and runs through November 8th. Each team is guaranteed…
Gulf Coast Restoration says report points out BP grossly negligent
Press Release: The joint investigation identified numerous, significant decisions by BP that directly led to the BP drilling disaster, the impacts of which are still being felt by the Gulf and our…