In response to an Emerald Coast Utilities Authority’s (ECUA) Board directive, the ECUA recently finalized a ten-year compressed natural gas (CNG) agreement with Energy Services of Pensacola (ESP) As part of the…
Voter registration lawsuit filed
Tallahassee, FL – Today attorneys for the League of Women Voters of Florida, Rock the Vote, and the Florida Public Interest Research Group Education Fund [“PIRGâ€] filed suit in federal court in…
Scott recommends FAMU president t/b placed on suspension
After returning from a trade mission to Israel today, Governor Scott was briefed by members of his senior staff regarding the latest developments in the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) investigations….
Urgent Need for O Negative Blood in Pensacola
Pensacola, Florida December 14, 2011 –Northwest Florida Blood Services announces an immediate need for O Negative blood donors. Holiday season emergencies, accidents and surgeries are showing increased usage of O Negative blood…
Pensacola Business Challenge Orientation is Tonight
Any future entrepreneurs or businesses who want to participate in the Pensacola Business Challenge are invited to a free orientation tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Rhodes Building located at 41 N….
Buzz: Camelot student stabs teacher
We received a phone call last night that a 12-year-old student at Camelot Academy, the school district-endorsed charter school for problem kids, stabbed a teacher with a pencil, requiring medical. Unlike West…
Viewpoint from Holly Shelton, www.PearlHarborInitiative.com
Regarding Troy Moon’s story in the Pensacola News Journal on December 7, 2011 about Pearl Harbor Survivor, Earline Williams, I read with interest until I got to the paragraph; “There will be…
State Attorney clears TDC
State Attorney Bill Eddins has cleared the Escambia County Tourist Development Commission of any Sunshine Law violations regarding a series of meetings held with hotel owners on the bed tax and the…
“Tebowing”
What is Tebowing? (vb) to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different. Join the craze at http://tebowing.com/
Video: Gingrich keeps his perch on top of GOP polls
Newt Gingrich continues to lead Mitt Romney in the polls, but the race for the Republican nomination is not over yet. CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford talks to Jeff Glor and…
Buzz: Sexual battery at West Pensacola Elementary
The cover-ups continue in the Escambia County school system. A female child was allegedly inappropriately touched by an older student at a bus stop. The third grader tried to tell the bus…
State lawmaker continue to screw with public education
Next to guns, the favorite target of lawmakers is public education. Every year Florida legislator tinker with what has to be taught in school—while still stressing FCAT and making it illegal for…
Trojan man under attack
An antitrust investigation to determine if an unlawful monopoly exists in the condom industry was back on track after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said that Church…
Safety Board recommends no cellphones while driving
The National Transportation Safety Board is suggesting a nationwide ban on all cellphone use while driving. The board called distracted driving the new DUI and says a ban would help limit accidents….
Federal Budget Infographic
The federal government’s budget deficit for fiscal year 2011 was $1.3 trillion; at 8.7% of gross domestic product (GDP 2011: $15 trillion)–which is the sum of all income earned in the domestic…
No we’re not kidding Part 2
 55 year old Florida woman thinks  Joran van der Sloot is “very sweet†and compares his plight to that of poor innocent dolphins that died in the BP oil spill. She dips…
NHL players talks about his sexual abuse
NHL star Sheldon Kennedy told a U.S. Senate panel today that of the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of his coach as a junior player. It took him ten years…
No, we’re not kidding….
Tuba thefts are rampant in California. … According to the LA Times
Gas Cash
Although the Pensacola City Council approved the borrowing of $5 million for improvements and purchases for its natural gas infrastructure, it was not without some back-and-forth and an accusation of “bait and…
Gulf Power exec to chair Great Northwest
(Northwest Florida) Dec. 13, 2011—Florida’s Great Northwest, the regional economic development organization for the 16-county Florida Panhandle region, announces the following Officers, Board of Directors members, and Executive Committee members for 2012….
