The Florida Department of Education has been grading the school districts based on their FCAT scores since 2003-2004 school year. In 2009-2010 school year, Escambia County Public School District had one of…
Scott finds FDOT project he likes
Press Release: Directs FDOT to amend work plan to include $77 million for the port Miami – Standing before a crowd of hundreds at the Port of Miami today, Governor Rick Scott…
Stallworth gets hung jury
At 11 p.m. on Thursday, Judge Nick Geeker released the jury in the Donnie Stallworth trial. The former Air Force staff sergeant was on trial for the murder trial of Byrd and…
Does FCAT measure the merit of teacher?
I think not. FCAT may measure the effectiveness of entire school district, but not a particular teacher. There are too many variables as School Board member Jeff Bergosh points out in his…
Buzz: “Amazing Grace” coming to UWF
Buzz: Grace Zabriske, actress, poet and artist, may be coming to the University of West Florida. She may interaction with students and faculty of the Departments of Art, Theatre and English (Creative…
PNJ changes website, so do other Gannett papers
The News Journal will be touting its new website. It is merely the new Gannett template Rochester Ashville Jackson Ft. Myers Lafayette (green version)
FCAT scores to determine teacher pay
Yesterday, I interviewed a parent who pulled his son out of Escambia County Public School District because he felt all the teachers had been doing since December was teach the FCAT (Florida…
Buzz: CMPA board members resigning
Bentina Terry and Grace McCaffrey have apparently resigned from the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees.
Hayward begins West Side Development
Press Release: Hayward To Begin West Side Improvements, ESP to Purchase Pipeline As part of Mayor Ashton Hayward’s 20 Solutions for 2011 and other public campaign pledges, Hayward is submitting to City…
Tea Party Rally
The Pensacola Tea Party is hosting a demonstration Saturday to protest the restrictions placed on drilling oil in the United States. Supporters will gather from 10 a.m. to noon on the public…
Buzz: Movement on West side plan
There is a buzz that Mayor Ashton Hayward will be making an announcement soon on a project for the west side of Pensacola. Not sure when it will be made or all…
Bright Futures may be cut again
Bright Futures, the merit-based college scholarship program for Florida high school graduates, may be cut yet again from $3,750 a year to $2,900. This scholarship program was born out of the Florida…
Century community center site of double shooting
NorthEscambia.com reports that Century’s Habitat building, the site of a double shooting early Saturday morning, was rented at the time by a Century woman for the purpose of a “Teen Partyâ€. The…
PNJ goes after Sue Straughn
It’s unusual for the daily newspaper to mention other media, but the PNJ editorial board went after popular TV anchor Sue Straughn in their Tuesday, March 1 editorial for serving on the…
Sheriff Morgan questions Scott’s budget
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan has written Gov. Rick Scott making it clear that he believes the newly-elected governor has been getting “less than stellar advice†on his first budget. Morgan told…
Searching for missing man on UWF campus.
Law enforcement and volunteers continue to search the nature trails on the UWF main campus today for missing Pensacola man William “Billy” Shores. Shores’ vehicle was found abandoned on the campus on…
Tar balls still on our beaches
Sunday’s article on BP cutting back on its clean-up work crews on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key upset locals. I was sent these photos of tar balls and dead birds. The last…
How Boeing beat Northrup Grumman
From The Herald (Everett, Wash.) comes an interesting take on the keys to Boeing winning the $30-billion Air Force contract that the Gufl Coast region needed so badly. Everett is the home…
Alarming child death statistic
Miami Herald reports that over the past six years, 41 percent of all children who died of abuse or neglect in Florida had been the subject of at least one prior contact…
Buzz: Functional consolidation talks begun
County Administrator Randy Oliver and Commissioner Grover Robinson told me that they held an informal meeting with Mayor Ashton Hayward on possible areas of consolidation.
