It’s official. “Real News” with Rick Outzen and Sena Maddison on WCOA is the fastest-growing station – for all formats, AM or FM – in the Pensacola area, nearly doubling our listener audience since the fall of 2022, which is the largest jump of any local station. Thank you.
You can listen online at wcoapensacola.com. If you want to advertise, email me at rick@inweekly.net. I will hook you up with an account executive. We are filling up our ad spots very quickly as we head into the holiday season.
UWF Argos Win Game, Make Playoffs
The Argos easily crushed Chowan University in a 52-6 victory on Senior Day at Pen-Air Field to end the regular season by sealing another spot in the NCAA Division II playoffs, which begin next weekend. Read more.
The UWF football team was selected to participate in the 2023 NCAA Division 2 Football Championship and will travel to No. 2 seed Delta State on Saturday, Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. in Cleveland, Mississippi.
The Argonauts are making their fifth appearance in the NCAA Playoffs and have a 12-3 all-time record, making them the winningest team in D2 history at .800. UWF won the 2019 national championship and was the 2017 national runner-up. The Argonauts advanced to the national semifinals a year ago after winning the Super Region 2 title for the third time in five seasons. Read more.
GOP House Rescues Salzman
State Rep. Michelle Salzman’s flippant outburst didn’t please Florida House leaders, but the Republicans have rallied behind her. Few believe that she understood the impact of her “All of them” when she heckled Rep. Nixon last Tuesday.
However, no one has told me that she didn’t say it or given me the same version that she told Andrew McKay.
The House leadership’s response to Salzman’s attention-getting stunt is very different from how Rep. Mike Hill, her predecessor, was treated when he agreed with a supporter who said homosexuals should be put to death. Read more.
Peter Schorsch, publisher of some of Florida’s most influential new media websites, wrote a scathing viewpoint calling for GOP leaders to deal with Hill, saying that the Escambia County lawmaker is single-handedly “distracting Florida voters from the significant achievements of a new administration and reinvigorated Legislature with his repugnant actions.”
Salzman has become a distraction, but she will keep her committee assignments.
