Category: News
Last Day of School
Okaloosa County had its last day of school yesterday. Walton County will have its last day next Thursday. Escambia County’s last day is June 3….
Salaries for commissioner aides
Commissioner Gene Valentino can be an easy target for criticism. His methods are heavy-handed at times and he steps into “it” quite often. However, I…
BP tourism funds are for tourism
Marie Young convinced her fellow county commissioners to delay approving the allocation of the $4.38 million of BP funds that was established by Escambia Tourist…
This day in history…on the Blog
The blog has been around since 2005. Here is what I have written on this day during that period: May 20, 2007: IN was in…
GB Chamber CEO Peltier resigns
Press Release: The Board of Directors of the Gulf Breeze Area Chamber of Commerce has accepted the resignation of Meg Peltier as President/CEO. Meg will…
The Ed Show again
Mike Papantonio and I have been asked to guest host The Ed Show, the syndicated radio version, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. He’s the talent, I’m…
Trump’s name has legal trouble
Buyers of apartments in the Trump International Hotel and Tower Fort Lauderdale thought Donald Trump was the developer. He was a mere licensor who was…
Anti-climate change report retracted
The journal Computational Statistics and Data Analysis has pulled a report by Edward Wegman that condemned scientific support for global warming. Its analysis was an…
New UWF VP
Press Release: University of West Florida President Judith A. Bense this week announced the appointment of Matthew D. Altier to vice president for administrative services,…
Drink Beer, Save the Coast
Press Release: SweetWater Brewery and Goldring Gulf Distributors are teaming with Emerald Coastkeeper’s and Mobile Baykeeper’s to raise money to help with Gulf Coast restoration…
Local GOP to caucus
Press Release: – The Escambia County Republican Executive Committee announced today the date and location to select delegates from Escambia County to participate in the…
FDOE raises school grading scale
The State Board of Education yesterday approved a plan to slowly bump up A-to-F grading standards, so schools will need to do better to earn…
PYP Whitepaper: BP Oil Spill’s impact on Tourism
Press Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. (May 17, 2011) – On April 20, 2010 the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and leaked…
What election fraud?
My May 12 Outtakes, “Fixing Elections,” focused on what I considered the changes to Florida’s Election laws–changes I believe had little to do with improving…
What is best school district in Florida Panhandle?
Not Santa Rosa or Okaloosa….it’s Walton County. The State Board of Education approved the designation of 13 Florida school districts as 2011-12 Academically High Performing…
Pictures of 2011 Mississippi River Flood
A friend sent me a link to this website, Lloyd’s Donaldson Point River Watch. It shows three pictures of the same house – 2007, 2008…
Buzz: Hubbs-Sea World touring city
Officials from Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute are in Pensacola today looking at possible locations for their new research center.
Audits reveal mortgage companies may have committed fraud
Huffington Post reports a set of confidential federal audits conducted Department of Housing and Urban Development’s inspector general accuse the nation’s five largest mortgage companies–…
Haliburton Engineer refuses to testify
Bloomberg is reporting that Jesse Gagliano, a technical adviser who was Halliburton’s cementing engineer on the Deepwater Horizon rig, evoked the Fifth Amendment when he…
