Category: Politics
Real News podcast: Tropical Storm Fred
Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore talks about the county’s preparations for Tropical Storm Fred. Currently the storm is expected to make landfall Monday…
Under 18 COVID hospitalizations added to dashboard
Escambia County today enhanced the COVID-19 dashboard at myescambia.com/covid19dashboard to include a breakdown of adult and pediatric hospitalizations data provided by local hospitals. It now also displays…
Real News podcasts: Robert Bender and David Stafford
Escambia County Commission Chairman Robert Bender talks about the Tourist Development Council and his first term in office. Our tourism economy has thrived this year….
Real News podcast: UWF President Martha Saunders
Dr. Martha Saunders shared the University of West Florida’s plans to curb COVID-19 cases on its campus on NewsTalk 1370 WCOA yesterday. “I would certainly…
Breaking: Reeves plans to file for mayor on Sept. 1
D.C. Reeves, The Spring CEO and co-owner of Perfect Plain Brewing Company, announced on NewsTalk 1370 WCOA’s “Real News” this morning that he plans to…
Meet mayoral candidates this morning
On Monday, I interviewed former Pensacola City Council President Jewel Cannada Wynn is running to be Pensacola’s next mayor. Listen to podcast. This morning on…
Real News podcast: Community Health CEO Chandra Smiley
On NewsTalk 1370 WCOA, I talked with Chandra Smiley of Community Health Northwest Florida about how she and her staff have been combating COVID-19 with…
City tightens COVID rules
In response to a rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the Pensacola area, the City of Pensacola is implementing new restrictions and guidelines…
Real News: Jared Moore on Maritime Park
City Council President Jared Moore has been vocal about what he doesn’t like about Carson Lovell’s vision for Lots Four and Five at the Community…
Blue Angels license plates available
Scott Lunsford, Escambia County Tax Collector, announces that the new Blue Angels specialty license plates will be issued during a special Saturday event on August…
Will Gov. DeSantis hand out $1K bonus checks to Escambia Co. deputies
Gov. Ron DeSantis has called a 2 p.m. presser at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. Why? Earlier today, he handed out $1,000 bonus checks to…
By the Numbers: COVID-19 Deaths
By The News Service of Florida Note: Gov. Ron DeSantis will not release COVID deaths by county. The only resource we have is CDC, and…
Maritime albatross
In the lava hot real estate market, the city of Pensacola has prime shovel-ready land on the bay of which only two parcels have b…
Morning radio got real today
This morning, NewsTalk WCOA 1370AM launched my new show, Real News with Rick Outzen, which will air Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. It’s…
BCC has legal opinion – 401(a) legal
Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers last month proclaimed the county’s 401(a) program was illegal and all the commissioners who selected must return to the Florida…
Check out August 5 Inweekly
COVID Déjà Vu Dammit, we thought we had the COVID-19 pandemic under control. People were getting vaccinated, and locally, new cases had dropped to an…
Rogers helped Underhill get an Ethics Commission opinion
The daily newspaper believes that County Attorney Alison Rogers  committed a crime when she didn’t get the Escambia County Commission to vote for her to…
Stop the lynchings
Counter to the daily newspaper’s diatribes, County Attorney Alison Rogers did nothing more than help one of her commissioners get an advisory opinion last March….
HR director tried to throw Bergosh under the bus
Commissioner Jeff Bergosh says a series of emails between former HR director and a claims specialist were done to cover the director’s mismanagement of a…
COVID cycle holding true
We learned last year that COVID cases follow three or four weeks after spreader events. On June 5, 2020, Gov. Ron DeSantis relaxed restrictions and…
