Spirit Airlines is using promotion on its website that relates the oil crisis on the Gulf Coast to oiled beauties on the beach. The promo called “Check Out The Oil On Our…
Buzz: Pensacola Beach has issues
We are hearing the clean-up crews at Pensacola Beach don’t have enough rakes to clean up the brown tar balls. There is no way that they can pick up the mess with…
Pensacola Beach turns brown (photos)
From readers:
Health advisory for Pensacola Beach
Escambia County Health Department Pensacola, FL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 23, 2010 1235 CDT HA002 Health advisory issued for portion of beach due to oil spill PENSACOLA — Effective immediately, in response…
Beach Update June 23 –not good
Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key Update Wednesday, June 23 – 12:30 a.m. – Update #20 If you see tar or oiled debris on the beach. DO NOT PICK IT UP. Report it…
Buffett Tickets Gone
The Jimmy Buffett and Friends benefit concert scheduled for July 1 in Gulf Shores is officially out of tickets. Tickets for the free show were completely gone within minutes of Ticketmaster distributing…
News: South Alabama – Sharks, Oil and BP
Mobile Press Register: Story 1: Fort Morgan-A two-inch layer of submerged oil hugged portions of the Gulf seafloor off the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge on Friday, a week after a smothering…
Judge who banned ban owns Haliburton stock
Nothing is ever clean when it comes to this BP oil disaster that is entering its ninth week. Canadian Business Online is reporting that U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, a 1983 appointee…
Gannett outsources comment moderation
The Gannett blog reports that Gannett has started outsourcing the moderation of the comments readers post on its websites. Gannett may have finally conceded that its newspapers and TV stations are too…
BP disaster photo you must see
From Discovery’s Bad Astronomy website and courtesy of NASA and the MODIS Rapid Response Team: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/22/damn/
Exclusive: Behind the scenes of BP Suttles visit
I missed Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer, yesterday. The visit was a surprise that had Santa Rosa Island Authority and Escambia County officials scrambling most of Monday night. BP wanted to…
Roundup: Gulf Coast BP disaster coverage
Daily News (FWB): While large amounts of tar balls continued to wash up on Walton County beaches Tuesday, Okaloosa County’s oil forecast for the rest of the week is “looking pretty good, 
Buzz: Where’s Mike?
For the past two days, I’ve been asked why hasn’t Pensacola Mike Wiggins spoke out against the petition drive by former councilmen Jack Nobles and Marty Donovan. He might not want to…
Pensacola Beach fouled
At 11:08 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, I received this email from a visitor from Dallas, Tex.: I benefited from your blog reports of Pensacola Beach. Tonight it was fouled badly from the…
CMP 101
The blog has grown beyond Northwest Florida. We are approaching a million page views a month. Some of the new readers have been drawn here because of The Daily Beast and my…
Sen. Gaetz gives Disaster Update
For Immediate Release June 22, 2010 4:30 p.m. CST Latest Oil Spill Developments Dear Neighbor, As dime to five inch-sized tar balls and tar “patties†continue to slowly inundate the Northwest Florida…
PYP affirms support of maritime stadium
Press Release: Pensacola Young Professionals today affirmed a decision made in 2006 to support the Community Maritime Park. Kristine Karsten, President of Pensacola Young Professionals, met with vice-presidents, team chairs and members…
Newsweek Ranks PHS 21st In Nation
Newsweek Magazine ranked Pensacola High School 21st in the nation in its annual high school evaluation. This ranking was determined by comparing the number of International Baccalaureate students and Advanced Placement exams…
Black Water (BP Version)
Gulf Oil Spill Doobie Brothers Parody by Steve Goodie:
Support Sea Turtle Restoration Project
BP has already killed countless sea turtles in its careless and cruel operations managing the Gulf oil spill, and we must send a strong message to local, federal, and BP officials that…
