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Pensacola City Council proves helplessness

Remember the outrage over the BP boom cleaning operations in Bayou Chico. City Attorney Rusty Wells gave the Pensacola City Council memo on how they…

Nodine sits in jail

…and, according to the Mobile Press Register, the Feds want to keep him there. The former Mobile County Commissioner resigned this past week to avoid…

City Attorney memo: City Council has some control over BP boom ops

Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells has sent the City Council a memo, “Pensacola-Based Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cleanup Measures,” that while the City can’t stop…

Panhandle prefers Rubio

According to the latest Listener Group poll: Marco Rubio and Republican newcomer and governor candidate Rick Scott are the two leaders in a survey recently…

Marco Rubio coming to Pensacola

Press release: As one of our great supporters, we just wanted to make sure you knew about Marco’s event near you tomorrow, Thursday, May 20th….

What Miller should be saying

Fox News’ Shepard Smith closed Friday evening’s “FOX Report” with a sharp commentary directed at BP CEO Tony Hayward. Smith, Ole Miss grad who grew…

Miller wants EPA to speed up dispersant approval

“Our” Congressman Jeff Miller isn’t pushing for stricter safety regulations for BP. No, Miller is upset with EPA. In his newsletter, Miller writes “the EPA…

Buzz: Buffett coming to Pensacola Beach

There is talk on Pensacola Beach that the Indigo hotel is been scratched and will be replaced by Margaritaville – resort run by Jimmy Buffett’s…

Frank Lay is retiring

We have the invitation for the celebration of Pace principal Frank Lay’s retirement on May 21….no word on who will do the invocation:

Deepwater Horizon Business Impact Survey #2

Press Release: Florida emergency management and economic development staff are gathering information from businesses impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Please take a moment…

The Mindshare approach

BP’s marketing and public relations firm, Mindshare, has a case study of its website that touts what the company does. Making BP’s media dollars work…

Transparency Challenge for District 2

The race in the Republican primary for Escambia County District 2 is a dogfight. The top candidates – incumbent Gene Valentino, former County Administrator George…

Buzz: Murzin to enter Commission District 2 race

Before the day ends, we hear that State Rep. Dave Murzin will drop out to his State Senate race against Greg Evers and Mike Hill…

Okaloosa frustrated, too

The Daily News reports that officials in Okaloosa County are just as frustrated with BP’s Unified Command post as we are here. Read Okaloosa officials…

Escamia County gets approval for Local Action Plan

Commissioner Grover Robinson just called to say the Unified Command Post in Mobile and the Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection have signed off on Escambia…

Oh yeah, I was booted from another meeting yesterday

This is my fault. Apparently at the Escambia County EOC the media must stay in a closed off meeting room away from the elected officials…

DEP holding up Escambia County oil spill plan

I did receive a phone call from an Escambia County official late last night. He told me that the word from the Unified Command in…

AWOL Elected Officials

LIST OF MISSING ELECTED OFFICIALS Commissioners Marie Young, Wilson Robertson, Kevin White Pensacola City Council, expect for P.C. Wu, Larry Johnson, Diane Mack and Mayor…