Inside Gingrich campaign meltdown
The Daily Beast has the inside scoop on why Newt Gingrich’s top aides bolted en masse Thursday, leaving his campaign in tatters. Peter J. Boyer…
School Board to air thoughts on superintendent
Here is something that will never happen in Pensacola, but it should. The St. Pete Times reports that the Pinellas County School Board wants to…
Palin vs. Bachmann
The GOP presidential primaries could be a lot of fun, especially as the candidates try to out do each in catering to the Tea Party…
Rick Scott – Job-a-nator
Is Gov. Rick Scott taking credit for jobs that he did little for the that to land? St. Pete Times thinks so. It reports Gov….
Okaloosa County Tax Collector resigns
Chris Hughes has announced his resignation as Okaloosa Co. Tax Collector. For the past 4 years, Hughes has been in trouble. A Florida Department of…
Obama-care could be in trouble
LA Times: Skeptical questions from three federal judges in Atlanta suggest they may be ready to declare unconstitutional all or part of the healthcare law…
OPEC talks collapse
Reuters reports that OPEC talks broke down in acrimony on Wednesday without an agreement to raise output after Saudi Arabia failed to convince the oil…
Is it time to dissolve SRIA?
The Santa Rosa Island Authority survived two efforts in the Aughts –or what some in Pensacola are starting to call the “Bull$#% Decade”–to abolish it….
Maritime Park Aerials
The park is moving along. Blue Wahoos will be playing next spring.
Miami mayoral candidates distancing themselves from Scott
The St. Pete Times Buzz reports that the two (Republican) candidates running for Miami-Dade mayor sought in a debate Tuesday morning to distance themselves as…
Obama loses May bump in polls
The latest polls are showing that the bounce in the polls that Obama received after the death of Osama bin Laden in early May has…
Barbie, it’s over
That’s the slogan for a new Greenpeace campaign against Mattel. The LA Times reports: Activists rappelled down the face of the 15-story El Segundo headquarters…
Evers, billboards and public record issue
The Florida Times-Union reports that Department of Transportation officials, Sen. Greg Evers and others knowingly allowed a billboard company to build signs without necessary permits….
FCAT Science scores a mixed bag
You have to love how the daily newspaper spins the FCAT scores of the Escambia Public School District, without any critical analysis. The paper ignores…
Buzz: County may privatize juvie
Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver told the IN yesterday that he is looking into privatizing the county juvenile detention. The state is charging the county…
Early learning critical to reading improvement
I received this email from the head of the Early Learning Coalition: Rick, I believe the facts in your 6/2/11 Buzz article are correct. However,…
Escambia County avoids budget crisis
Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver stopped by the IN offices to discuss the 2011-12 budget. The good news is the budget is balanced without a…
Warrington Middle’s turnaround still hasn’t happened
Warrington Middle is still struggling. The one bright spot was its FCAT reading score for its eighth grade– 8 percent more scoring 3 or higher….
Escambia Middle Schools have similar results in reading
Warrington Middle finished at the bottom Sixth Seventh Eighth Total STATEWIDE AVG. 67 68 55 190 BROWN BARGE MIDDLE SCHOOL 94 95 84 273 RANSOM…
Four Escambia Middle Schools best state average in math
Escambia County has nine public middle schools. Four of them beat the state average for students who scored 3 or higher on the math portion…
