We were initially told the School District has two offers for the Brownsville Middle School building. Now it looks like there hasn’t been any serious offers on the table yet. Here is…
Questions Suttles should have been asked
BP COO Doug Suttles flew into Pensacola yesterday. He visited Ft. Pickens to watch workers clean up a relatively light mess on the beach there. He went to the Santa Rosa Island…
Special City Council Meeting With BP
Tomorrow, the Pensacola City Council will hold a special committee of the whole meeting at 5 p.m. at City Hall that will allow residents to voice concerns and ask questions about BP’s…
SRIA closes Pensacola Beach
Gulf Closures on Pensacola Beach Significant quantities of emulsified oil are in the near shore waters and coming ashore along much of the Gulf front on Pensacola Beach. This has necessitated that…
Two Buyers For Brownsville Building?
Escambia County School District Assistant Superintendent for Operations Shawn Dennis told the IN today there are currently two “potential buyers†lined up for the abandoned Brownsville Middle School building. “I’ve seen one…
News: Deepwater Horizon uncapped – gushing freely
Via Mother Jones: After an accident involving the containment system, the Gulf gusher is spewing oil at full force yet again. Here’s the breaking news blast from the Washington Post: Adm. Thad…
Spirit Airlines Using Oil As Promotion
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…
