Explore ranked Pensacola as the #4 U.S. destination for book lovers, thanks to the Books By the Bay Festival and Open Books. Scott Satterwhite, co-founder of the independent bookstore, discusses the importance of books in Pensacola.
Quote: “We’re often gauged by our politicians who don’t necessarily represent the people’s wills as a whole. Book banning, book restricting and all, however they want to phrase it, it is historically been very unpopular, but often we just get represented by a handful of folks who don’t necessarily represent the desires of the people.”
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High school athletes can take advantage of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) since the Florida Department of Education and Florida High School Athletic Association approved allowing NIL deals on July 24. Madrina Ciano has been working with local high school students to help them build their brands.
Quote: “The first thing is to work with them on getting their social media up to speed and what that looks like and the music they should put on there, the words that they should say, the image that they should project. And that’s part of it, too – to get them to identify who are they, what is their niche, what makes them stand out.”
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Last Thursday, Grace McCaffery spoke to the Pensacola City Council and shared the latest on the Chilean workers terminated by ST Engineering this summer.
Quote: “There’s some psychological things that we need to deal with right now. When I reported to the city council last week, I let them know that just coming into the meeting I learned that one of the spouses had a heart attack from the stress. And so that’s the level of anxiety that they’re having and the children are being affected as well. When they came here, they sold everything that they had to come here because the company doesn’t pay for their relocation expenses…And so now being told that they have to go back, they’ve got nothing back to.”
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Levin Papantonio’s People’s Law School returns in September. The sessions are every Thursday evening in September from 6–8 p.m., at the Sanders Beach-Corinne Jones Resource Center, 913 South I St. Brenton Goodman shares the details. To register for the session, visit levinlaw.com.
Quote: “They’ll be able to learn for two hours. And in fact, if they come to each event, if you come to all four events, we give you a certificate at the end and you’ve graduated People’s Law School.”
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And the full show: Sena Maddison, Scott Satterwhite, Grace McCaffery, Ines deLa Cuetara, Steven Portnoy, Brenton Goodman, and Madrina Ciano.
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