Category: News
School board members could lose salaries
Legislation has been proposed by the Senate Education Committee which will eliminate school board members’ salaries for anyone elected, or re-elected, in 2012 and beyond….
School Violence & Crime rankings
At what high school was a student or teacher most likely to be a victim of battery-2009-10: Escambia High School. Which high school was least…
How safe is your child’s school?
The Florida Department of Education tracks crime and violence incidents on the school campuses. If the schools have accurately entered the data into the FDOE…
Tea Party: Statehouse is ground zero
Viewpoint by Katharine DeBrecht from The Tea Party Review: I find this interesting since average Florida citizens funds our state government through sales taxes. The…
Buzz: Hayward to sign Levin firm
Mayor Ashton Hayward is set to hire a group headed by the Levin Papantonio Law firm to represent the City of Pensacola in its claims…
Class-size requirements may be gutted
The Florida Legislature is looking at a way to get around the class-size amendment. Two-thirds of the 849 core classes offered in elementary, middle and…
Amazing Grace on being the fool
Actress, poet and artist Grace Zabriskie spent the past week on the University of West Florida campus as an artist-in-residence. Last night, she fielded questions…
Buzz: Lawmakers worse than Spring Break
The word I get from Tallahassee is that our lawmakers are like college kids on Spring Break, They have no restraints. Lobby money is flowing…
Daily has good Sunday issue, plus ad first
The Pensacola News Journal scores high marks on its news coverage of the state retirement system proposals and the property tax giveaways. It also scored…
Other Local Embezzlement Cases
Tina Mitchell embezzled $856,126 from five local homeowners associations between 2006 and 2009 while she worked as an association representative for Montgomery Management Associates. She…
Thelma Manley: Background on the case
The daily newspaper claims as one of its victories the arrest and prosecution of Thelma Manley. They should. When the Front Porch board members brought…
Buzz: WALL-E quits, moves to court security
The robot nicknamed WALL-E, which is being credited with aiding in the peaceful end of an eight-hour standoff Thursday morning in Cantonment, has quit SWAT…
Apple adds breathalyzer APP to iPhones
Apple has a new application for its highly popular iPhone. The App converts the cellular phone to a breathalyzer. Using the tracking chip in the…
Pensacola hosts USS destroyer…in Mobile
Press Release: The USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) will be commissioned June 4, 2011 at the Alabama State Port Authority docks in a ceremony…
Inweekly server down for maintenance
Crystal Tech, which hosts inweekly.net, is upgrading its servers. Our website should be back up by this afternoon.
Federal Audit: ECUA did not comply with grant requirements
According to a recently released audit, ECUA only spent $1.09 million of a $149.2 million federal grant for Main Street Wastewater Relocation Project with minority-owned…
Thomas: No plan to cut SROs
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas called to say the rumors of him reducing School Resource Officers aren’t true. The District is negotiating its contract with the sheriff’s…
Reply to blocking Rick’s Blog
I received this email from the school district this afternoon: “Ricksblog.biz is not blocked; however, if RicksBlog.biz contains an entry that includes any key/inappropriate word…
Buzz: Thomas may reduce or remove SROs
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas was overheard this past week discussing the school resource officers. He said that he was considering reducing the number of SROs or…
School property remains vacant
NorthEscambia reports the Carver/Century K-8 School, which the school district closed in May 2009, remains empty. After two years, the Escambia County School District has…
