UWF hires USM official for first Chief Diversity Officer
This notice was sent to the University of West Florida staff: I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Kim LeDuff as the university’s new…
Local Food World stores sold to Greer
The judge in Belle Foods’ bankruptcy case has approved the sale of seven stores to six buyers. According to bankruptcy court filings, Food World stores…
RFP-Lite, or ‘Meander, Meander, Meander’
By mid-September, the Escambia County Commission should be selecting the search firm that will be helping to select a permanent county administrator. The board decided…
BP CEO wants to get back to business as usual. Not so fast, Dudley
BP CEO Robert Dudley laments what he sees as public hatred for oil companies in the United States and claims other nations love the oil…
Searching for the Searcher and the Campfire Sing-Along
It is unclear exactly what they will do later today, but Escambia County commissioners appear poised to formally request that a wider net be cast…
Chamber surveys market for aviation/aerospace workers
Press Release: In an effort to establish a workforce case for the aviation/aerospace industry, the Greater Pensacola Chamber has launched a campaign to attract, recruit…
Revenge of the BP Barbies
In the weeks after Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, but before the oil and tar balls began washing ashore, BP sent out into the…
Impasse broken, Touart writes he does not want any of Sheriff’s budget
The daily newspaper’s headline on jail transfer workshop held yesterday is “Escambia County Jail talks hit impasse.” We wrote that Interim County Administrator George Touart…
Touart Transfer Plan Calls For Sheriff To Give Up 40 Percent Of His Administrative Staff…or does it? (update)
By Jesse Farthing Most difficult tasks have checklists. That’s the way all parties can make sure deadlines are met in an orderly fashion. That’s not…
Are You Ready to Rumble? Stand Your Ground: El Baby Gaetz vs. The Unchained (see poster)
SaintPetersBlog.com is having fun with the proposed debate on Stand Your Ground between Rep. Matt Gaetz and executive director of the Dream Defenders, Phillip Agnew….
Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company sets out on its own
Press Release: The Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company (SetsCo), until this year a part of Pensacola Little Theatre’s Treehouse Theatre division, has incorporated as a non-profit…
Randy Hammer retires
Randy Hammer, former executive editor of the Pensacola News Journal, has announced his retirement as president and publisher of the Asheville Citizen-Times, which is also…
