The New Orleans City Council is considering a recommendation to rename 37 streets, parks and public spaces honoring white supremacists after its Street Renaming Commission submitted its final report this week. “…meaningful…
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Orange Beach chef named James Beard Foundation semi-finalist
Bill Briand, the executive chef of Fisher’s Upstairs at Orange Beach Marina, has been named a semi-finalist for the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef in the South. Briand spent seven years with…
Sheen Seen in Gulf
After spotting a sheen in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, a federal agency has required to Royal Dutch Shell to send down a remote submersible to check the sea floor for leaking…
All Aboard?
Will Amtrak’s Sunset Limited passenger train service once again travel through Pensacola? City officials would like to see that happen. During today’s Pensacola City Council Committee of the Whole meeting, council members…
CMP: Stop the pettiness and bullying
Pensacola had a head start over the rest of North America 451 years ago. When DeLuna founded Pensacola, there was no New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans or Orlando…just Pensacola. When the…
Beast Corps: Cabinet visits Escambia County
From Beast Corps correspondent Franklin Hayes: As the largest potential economic disaster loomed in the Gulf of Mexico just a few miles off the coast of Pensacola Beach, the Sunshine State’s sitting…
Coastkeeper update
Press release: Flow rate update, with information from the Incident Command: The National Incident Command’s Flow Rate Technical Group (FRTG) has developed an independent estimate for the rate at which oil is…
Editorial: Gulf ports ready for more business
The Mobile Press Register published an editorial on bright futures of Central Gulf ports, Central Gulf ports ready for the future. Guess which Gulf Coast port isn’t mentioned in the editorial.
Race for Containers
The Panama Canal is expanding—a $5.25 billion project– to all allow the largest container ships to cut through to the eastern side of North America and, according to AP, may cut into…
Nagin – unifier or divider
I’ve watched with curiosity the reactions in the white community to having Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, speak in Pensacola at the Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce’s City to…
FEMA didn’t learn from Ivan
Saturday, Washington Post published an article on yet another FEMA failure – rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The massive federally funded program for rebuilding Louisiana homes is short nearly $3…
New Orleans looking at healthcare
New Orleans has a real health care problem with the poor and uninsured. Prior to Katrina, the state had a really screwed up system that pushed all the poor and uninsured to…