Something you won’t find in the local daily today: The Observer reported in its Sunday edition that Wachovia Bank laundered billions of dollars for the Mexican drug lords. A 22-month investigation by…
GOP continues to mix God and Politics
New York Times: Revitalizing the Religious Right was the agenda for a special meeting held in Iowa last month. The program, sponsored by the Iowa Renewal Project, featured four possible Republican contenders…
State Roundup: Sunday editions
Miami Herald: Florida Republicans are on pace to dismantle regulations, cut jobs and adopt significant changes to Medicaid and abortion rights — because they have the votes. Read more. Sun-Sentinel: Since state…
Daily has good Sunday issue, plus ad first
The Pensacola News Journal scores high marks on its news coverage of the state retirement system proposals and the property tax giveaways. It also scored a first—a news section that has a…
Other Local Embezzlement Cases
Tina Mitchell embezzled $856,126 from five local homeowners associations between 2006 and 2009 while she worked as an association representative for Montgomery Management Associates. She pleaded guilty in February 2010 to three…
Thelma Manley: Background on the case
The daily newspaper claims as one of its victories the arrest and prosecution of Thelma Manley. They should. When the Front Porch board members brought them the story in 2007, the paper…
Buzz: WALL-E quits, moves to court security
The robot nicknamed WALL-E, which is being credited with aiding in the peaceful end of an eight-hour standoff Thursday morning in Cantonment, has quit SWAT and asked to be transferred to court…
Apple adds breathalyzer APP to iPhones
Apple has a new application for its highly popular iPhone. The App converts the cellular phone to a breathalyzer. Using the tracking chip in the phone, the App determines if you are…
Rubio in the limelight
Florida’s junior U.S. senator, Marco Rubio, is taking led on the federal debt debate. According to the New York Times, in the space of 24 hours, Rubio penned an opinion article opposing…
Pensacola hosts USS destroyer…in Mobile
Press Release: The USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) will be commissioned June 4, 2011 at the Alabama State Port Authority docks in a ceremony co-hosted by the City of Pensacola and…
Inweekly server down for maintenance
Crystal Tech, which hosts inweekly.net, is upgrading its servers. Our website should be back up by this afternoon.
Federal Audit: ECUA did not comply with grant requirements
According to a recently released audit, ECUA only spent $1.09 million of a $149.2 million federal grant for Main Street Wastewater Relocation Project with minority-owned contractors and only $4.9 million with women-owned…
Thomas: No plan to cut SROs
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas called to say the rumors of him reducing School Resource Officers aren’t true. The District is negotiating its contract with the sheriff’s office. “I intend to put the same…
Reply to blocking Rick’s Blog
I received this email from the school district this afternoon: “Ricksblog.biz is not blocked; however, if RicksBlog.biz contains an entry that includes any key/inappropriate word then that entry is blocked for our…
Buzz: Thomas may reduce or remove SROs
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas was overheard this past week discussing the school resource officers. He said that he was considering reducing the number of SROs or eliminating them entirely from schools. Budget will…
School property remains vacant
NorthEscambia reports the Carver/Century K-8 School, which the school district closed in May 2009, remains empty. After two years, the Escambia County School District has been unable to find a buyer for…
Escambia: unhealthy place
WEAR TV 3 reports: In the Annual County Health Rankings put out by the University of Wisconsin, Escambia ranks 47th out of 67 counties for the second year in a row. Okaloosa…
Okaloosa sheriff’s employees get sentenced
Daily News: Okaloosa County sheriff’s employees Mike Coup, Sandra Norris and David Yacks were sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for their roles in the agency’s bonus kickback scan… more.
Rhee strikes back at USA Today
Taking a lesson from Jeff Bergosh, former chancellor of D.C. schools Michelle Rhee says USA TODAY’s investigation of erasures found on standarized tests is an insult to teachers and children who worked…
Buzz: Rick’s Blog blocked by School District
The Escambia County Public School District has now blocked my blog on its server. Apparently criticism will not be tolerated.
