The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to…
BP Tops $200 Million In Claims
BP Release: Payments to residents and businesses of the Gulf Coast reached $201 million today as BP continued to increase its outreach to thousands of people who have filed claims related to…
Evers Releases Statement On BP Fix
PRESS RELEASE Statement by Representative Greg Evers on Reports that the BP Deepwater Horizon is Capped Baker, Fla. – Representative Greg Evers (R-Baker) today released the following statement regarding news reports that…
Affiliated Baseball Parks – Single A
The naysayers like to make a big deal out of the Pensacola Pelicans aren’t an affiliated team. Of course they can’t be playing in the tiny UWF ball park, that is even…
Where are the financial reports from the AA Chamber?
The Gulf Coast African-American Chamber is upset about the Escambia County Commission rejecting their funding request. It goes before the Pensacola City Council on Monday. The City has asked for financial statements…
The Daily Beast: Cautious Optimism In the Gulf
The Daily Beast asked that I give their readers some feedback from Pensacola on the new containment cap of the Deepwater Horizon well. Cautious optimism was the general consensus. Read more. Read…
Pelicans on 10-game win streak
Manager Talmadge Nunnari and the Pensacola Pelicans are at again. They are rolling, finally, and climbing in the standings of the American Association. Their most recent sweep was of the Ft. Worth…
Plethora of Political Forums
Monday, July 19: Republican candidates for Escambia County Commission, District 2, will be held at 7 p.m. July 19 at the Perdido Bay Community Center, 13660 Innerarity Point Road. The candidates are…
BP Temporarily Clogs Leak
The AP is reporting that BP has stopped the flow from the ruptured well, but it looks to be only a temporary fix. Story
Sewage Plant In Training Stage
ECUA spokesman Jim Roberts confirmed with IN that the new sewage treatment plant in Cantonment is training workers to operate the 29 systems that it will be running. “This is a very…
Public dollars to build stage for hotel???
Am I the only one who sees the insanity of using public dollars to build “an outdoor stage, with a video screen and all the bells and whistles” at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville…
Now Coast Guard wants to fix VoO
USCG Commander Joe Boudrow announced yesterday plans to form a working group to improve the Vessel of Opportunity Program (VoO) in Florida, which employs boat owners and their crews to help in…
‘Sorry Ain’t Enough’
As BP sought to test whether a new capping device could fully control the oil gusher that the company and its partners created in the Gulf of Mexico seabed nearly three months…
Murzin Asking For Public Opinion On Drilling
State Rep. Dave Murzin (R-Pensacola) is asking his constituents how they feel about the proposed constitutional offshore drilling ban Governor Charlie Crist has recently endorsed. “Do the citizens of Florida feel there…
Chamber Candidate Forum
July 2010 Candidate Forums The Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a series of candidate forums in July 2010 to be moderated by Rick Outzen. The next candidate forum is…
Hands Across Capitol Against Drilling
From Emerald Coastkeepers WHEN:   Tuesday, July 20, 2010 WHERE: The Capitol Courtyard (between the old and new Capitol) Tallahassee, FL TIME:    11:30 am EST Please join Crude Awakening, Hands Across The Sand,…
BP Ties To Terrorist Release?
“A group of U.S. senators asked BP to stop all drilling operations in Libya and cooperate with an investigation into its possible involvement with the release of the Lockerbie Bomber, who has…
Relief wells had problems with blowout preventers, too
Reuters is reporting: In a 29-page memo to Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), U.S. Interior Secretary Ken said “performance problems” with the blowout…
Feds send BP bill – $99.7M
The federal government has its fourth bill for $99.7 million to BP and other responsible parties for response and recovery operations relating to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This is the fourth…
Allen and Chu delay cap tests
From a press conference yesterday – Admiral Thad Allen, National Incident Commander: “Today I met with Secretary Chu, Marcia McNutt and other scientists and geologists as well as officials from BP and…
