Is BP punishing Charter Boat leaders?

One of my sources for my article on the Vessels of Opportunity for The Daily Beast was Scott Robson, president of the Destin Charter Boat…

Continue Reading

Special EC County Commission Meeting

Press Release: The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners will hold a special meeting on Thursday, June 10 at 8:45 a.m. to handle issues relating…

Continue Reading

BP hires unemployed to work beaches

Actual Press Release [I kid you not]: Date June 5, 2010 MOBILE, Ala. – The Unified Command in Mobile announced today the first deployment of…

Continue Reading

Rants & Raves

Because we have been so tight for space in the paper, we’ve not run Rants & Raves for the past month. Here are some the…

Continue Reading

Commissioner says don’t believe BP

I returned to the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center for the first time in four weeks…and I got some memorable quotes and answers that reputed…

Continue Reading

More BP globs headed our way

From The Ledger: Oil Crisis Focus Now On Tactics Pushed by the strong prevailing wind and currents, the globs of today will become the tar…

Continue Reading

OIL IMPACTS BON SECOUR NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Press Release – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Tar balls of weathered oil began washing up along Gulf beaches at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge…

Continue Reading

Escambia EOC Update #36

Press release – Saturday, June 5 – 5:30 p.m. – Update #36: # The beaches at Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key remain open. # For…

Continue Reading

BP Claims chief here on Sunday

While most of Pensacola is in church tomorrow, BP Chief Claims Officer Darryl Willis will visit the Escambia County EOC (6575 North “W” Street, Pensacola)…

Continue Reading

“What we’re going to be dealing with the rest of the summer”

The Mobile Press Register isn’t covering up the magnitude of the oil disaster: The slick that struck there was spotted early in the day by…

Continue Reading

Media Roundup 6.05.10

We are in Day 46 of the BP Oil Disaster and 16 days before the Pensacola City Council meets again to express its “outrage.” cfnews13.com:…

Continue Reading

Gaetz report

The following is the Friday report from State Sen. Don Gaetz. The only exception I have is that we were told that BP initially responded…

Continue Reading