Gulfport city officials want to deal only with the higher-ups at BP when it comes to negotiating payments and settlements, and they’ll consider “aggressive litigation†if their demands aren’t met. Council members…
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Real Sports Talk Radio comes to Pensacola
Press Release: that 1450AM (WBSR) is now the new home of ESPN Radio, as 1450 ESPN. The station is Pensacola’s only 24/7 all-sports radio facility, and features programming from world sports leader…
Fundraiser for Appetite for Life
In the early morning hours on Thursday August 18th, Appetite 4 Life suffered a major fire. The Arts for AIDS Awareness, Inc. a local non profit and Sole Inn and Suites will…
Buzz: GLA students coming from all over district
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas promised the public that only students inside the school’s attendance zone (inner-city of Pensacola) would be allowed to attend the new Global Learning Academy by his office on Pace…
Let’s don’t jinx it, Irene
Tropical Storm Irene is headed toward Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its heavy rains and winds have closed airports and flooded low-lying areas of the Leeward Islands. Irene is not,…
Escambia Public Schools have huge disparties
You have to know where to look for it on the Florida Department of Education website. All the Florida Public School District failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress. The Escambia County public…
High school grading formula is flawed
Florida Current reports former Education Commissioner John Winn told a higher education panel on last Thursday that a newly-enacted grading formula for high schools masks serious problems. He points to recent college…
Look for hogs at CMPA trough
The daily newspaper’s story on the cost overruns points out that the Community Maritime Park expenditures need to be investigated by independent auditors–without ties to any of the contractors and subcontractors at…
News site readers don’t care about comments
This month’s Ad Age/Ipsos Observer American Consumer Survey looked into the impact of comments and other engagement tools for news website. Sixty-three percent of the 1,003 households that took part in the…
Mayor asked council for budget requests in March
The impression one might have gotten from the Pensacola City Council workshops on the FY 2012 budget is that the council members had little or no input into the budget. While the…
Gulf Breeze celebrates 50 years
Last night, the City of Gulf Breeze celebrated its first 50 years as city. Past mayors, council members, city employees, business leaders and key volunteers were recognized. A few were singled out…
Dueling Budget Memos
Council President Maren Deweese sent to the Pensacola City Council her own memo on how she wants the remaining FY 2012 budget process to be conducted, which conflicted with the mayor’s memo…
Will PNJ shrink even more?
The Cincinnati Enquirer, another Gannett-owned paper, announced this past week that it’s considering a dramatic reduction in print paper size. If it follows through, it will be the third of its papers…
Ho-Hum: UWF study leads to another study
The UWF students, alumni and friends thought their president, Judy Bense, was going to announced a football program by 2013 or 2014. No, what they got was the announcement of another study…
Go Argos (video)
The University of West Florida’s latest student life video:
Help for Clergy
Press Release: The Pensacola Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Peter Rubardt will accompany Beth Nielsen Chapman for a special concert on Thursday, November 17 at the Saenger Theatre. This performance is presented by…
Viewpoint: All Pits are Monitored Equally
From Escambia County Commissioner Wilson Robertson: I would like to correct some errors and misleading statements in Jaime Page’s article in the August 12 story about how the county regulates borrow pits….
Jackie Chan lives!
Rumors of the death of movie star Jackie Chan (‘Rush Hour’) resurfaced Tuesday night after someone made an “RIP Jackie Chan†Facebook page. The page has more than 67,000 followers, and Twitter…
Hayward’s memo to city council
Mayor Ashton Hayward sent yesterday a memo to the Pensacola City Council regarding the FY 2012 Budget. He has directed City Staff to take under advisement only those amendments to the budget…
Food for Appetite for Life
La Costa Latina Newspaper is collecting food at Hispanic Resource Center at 5465 N. Pensacola Blvd. (between Brent and Airport—Across from Taco Rock) for Appetite for Life to replace the food supplies…