As he geared up for another run of Drive By Truckers shows,including Tuesday, April 10 at Vinyl Music Hall, Patterson Hood spent a few minutes with the IN speaking about his band,…
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Oil Spill Restoration Meeting in Gulf Shores
There’s another chance tonight to comment on initial oil spill restoration projects slated for the Gulf Coast. After a holding meetings in Florida earlier this month, officials presenting the Deepwater Horizon Oil…
Bargain Basement BP-Boom
Still searching for Christmas gifts? How about 3,000 feet of hard boom left over from the 2010 oil spill? The City of Orange Beach, Ala., is auctioning off its surplus boom on…
Problem on Alabama side of Key
Spoke last night with Commissioner Gene Valentino who drove late yesterday an ATV on the beach from Perdido Pass to Eden Condominiums. He said that the Alabama side had “dinner table size”…
Latest BP Update, with subtitles, notes
As of May 18 UNDERWATER —-Subtitle “Don’t expect it to be stopped any time soon.†. The riser insertion tube tool (RITT) containment system is estimated to be collecting and carrying about…
What is the truth?
From News Journal article (“Chemicals will protect the Gulf, Rep. Miller says”): “Adm. Thad Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard, said the spill has become much more difficult to contain. As…
Grover and Goodin met with BP in D.C.
I spoke with Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson this morning about his and Santa Rosa Commissioner Gordon Goodin’s meetings with the Coast Guard and British Petroleum. Congressman Jeff Miller set up the…
The Black Gold Untold
by IN South Alabama correspondent Dawn Butler.. About the size of Pensacola Beach is Dauphin Island, Alabama, where the oil first came ashore in our neck of the woods. Tar balls, the…
Deepwater Horizon – Not the First Gulf Oil Leak
By IN Reporter Ryne Ziemba… Currently, there are roughly 4,000 oil rigs off the Gulf Coast of the United States, with the exception of Florida’s coast which has yet to allow drilling…
Sink’s day in Pensacola
By Sean Boone Federal and state officials were in Pensacola today to address emergency efforts for the Deep Horizon oil spill bearing down on Florida’s coastline. Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink met…
BP Blueprint for Pensacola
After fighting the oil giant for four years, Texas attorney Brent Coon says, “Nobody knows more about BP than we do.†Coon heads Brent Coon & Associates, Beaumont, Texas law firm with…
IN kicked out of DEP/BP meeting
Gov. Charlie Crist is in Pensacola to see firsthand the preparations for the impending oil slick that is approaching Florida. Before Gov. Crist arrived – which was about noon. Members of the…
Another one of Cody’s tricks
That’s what local contractors are telling the IN about Roads, Inc. convincing the Escambia County Commission to rebid the Maplewoods drainage project. Few doubt there was any mistake in the bid made…
Pensacola connection to Rubio
The Miami Herald and St. Pete Times are reporting on the race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate between Gov. Charlie Crist and former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio. They…
Mexican mafia along Gulf Coast
BBC News reported over the weekend that a suspected senior member of one of Mexico’s major drugs cartels, Carlos Beltran Leyva, was arrested in Culiacan, Mexico. Leyva of the Beltran Leyva drug…
Billings case: Friday, July 10 – part 2
FAMILY TIES Friday, July 10 While Sheriff Morgan is holding his press conference, Investigator Lee Tyree is speaking with Kristyn Billings in one of the interview rooms. Kristyn, who graduated from Pine…
Alabama solution to high property taxes
Saw this solution offered by a candidate to stop rising property taxes: “Do away with annual property appraisals.” Now that’s an Alabama solution. Tell the county property appraisers to stop doing their…