Mabus report fails to recommend BP Go Zone
The U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, held a press conference at Sanders Beach today to tout his plan for the recovery of the…
Escambia County children living in poverty percentage soars
The percentage of children under age 5 living below poverty level soared in 2009 from 29.3 to 38.6 percent. The state percentage is 24.8 percent,…
Local income falls for third consecutive year
Household incomes fell in Escambia County for the third consecutive year and are barely ahead of the 2005 figures, according 2009 American Community Survey which…
BP’s Safety Division
According to the NY Times, Â BP will soon add a safety division to better prepare for such disasters as the Deep Horizon explosion. BP Managing…
Missing Child Not Seen In Years
ECSO Press Release: On August 30, 2010 the Escambia Sheriff’s Office responded to 6101 Chicago Ave in reference to a missing person. Contact was made…
Once upon a time, Rusty Wells moonlighted, too
The daily newspaper is questioning the (unofficial or official?) policy that allowed firefighters to conduct their side businesses while on duty. The PNJ asks in…
Meet MacArthur Foundation winners
The Washington Post has a slideshow of the 23 individuals who won MacArthur Foundation fellowships ($500K). They include three physicists, three denizens of Cambridge, a…
Florida second in gun smuggling category
Hugh Wiggins, who has been indicted in Mississippi for being an accessory after the fact in the Billings’ murders, smuggled the weapons used in the…
News: baby fish proliferate
Mobile Press Register reports that scientists have found baby snapper, trout, grouper and grunt everywhere. Early results from an annual count of juvenile fish in…
“You, me, be drug free!â€
It may be grammatically incorrect, but the Superintendent Malcolm Thomas’ administration has the slogan for its new drug awareness campaign: “You, me, be drug free! 
Southwest to buy Air Tran
Press Release: Southwest Airlines [NYSE:LUV] announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of AirTran…
Feds load up for case against BP
Feds are preparing their cases against BP, Transocean and Haliburton. Read Times Picayune (cool graphic).
Pensacola orphan soars to success
I came across this obituary of a Pensacola orphan that was an aviator and contemporary of Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran. She was orphaned and reared…
Is Oil Really Breaking Down?
A Greenpeace boat is housing a team of researchers near the site of the Deep Horizon disaster. The group is hoping to discover if the…
Rubio: 2010’s Katherine Harris?
That’s what political consultant Chris Ingram calls GOP senate candidate Marco Rubio on his blog, Irreverent View. Ingram writes that Rubio “told me of a…
What they say
In 1994, Republicans released their “Contract with America.” In 2006, the Democrats pushed a “New Direction for America.” The recently-released “Pledge to America” is the…
Okaloosa TDC cancels BP debit cards
Less than one week after launching its BP-funded debit card program to attract tourists, Okaloosa County TDC has had to cancel it. The Okaloosa County…
Scanners help meth dealers
Several of the local media have been fighting with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office over the county purchasing a $12.5 million communications systems for use…
News: Feinberg says he’s faster now
Mobile Press Register: Oil spill claims czar Ken Feinberg said Tuesday that he is “satisfying his worst critics†by speeding up his review process, pointing…
Mack speaks out against ECUA hike
Pensacola Councilwoman Diane Mack is recommending business owners speak against the proposed ECUA rate hikes for water and sewer: “At a time when small businesses…
