Press Release: Pensacola, Florida: The Devilliers Cultural Heritage Museum will host Devilliers Night, Friday, May 28, 2010 by featuring the superb Neo-Soul Gospel group ‘KMM’ (Kingdom Minded Minstrels) and Christian Poet, ‘Wizdom’….
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Crist withholds funds for Panhandle
Gov. Charlie Crist will be on Pensacola Beach tomorrow for an appearance on Fox & Friends around 7:15 a.m. Shortly after that national TV appearance, Crist will announce that none of the…
IN May 27 issue
COVER STORY THREE’S COMPANY Less than a year ago Governor Charlie Crist was thought by many political analysts to be a shoe-in for Mel Martinez’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. OUTTAKES ALAS, PENSACOLA…
BP protest May 27
Hear Our Voice To Save Our Coast is holding a demonstration Thursday, May 27 at 6 p.m. on Palafox between Main and Government streets (guess that’s Ferdinand Plaza area) protesting BP’s tactics…
Buzz: Insider look at pnj.com stats
Gannett Blog got the secret web stats for pnj.com and other Gannett websites (see spreadsheet): Pensacola FL Unique Visitors April 2009: 469,880 Nov 2009: 444,952 Dec 2009: 449,245 Jan 2010: 453,487 Feb…
Tar balls on Pensacola Beach
We are getting reports that tar balls have washed on to Pensacola Beach. Fox 10 is reporting three were found by a Gulf Breeze family at Fort Pickens. The Coast Guard reports…
BP contractor caught using illegals
News Herald reports: “Bay County sheriff’s deputies arrested as many as 11 people Wednesday — all but one of them thought to be illegal aliens — in a sweep at Panama City…
Grover: We will test waters
Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson called late yesterday afternoon to tell me the county will be testing the area waters regularly on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key. “We have the baseline measurements…
Perdido Key Chamber hosts weekly BP meetings
Press release (note the new chamber slogan at the end): As we continue to say, our beaches are beautiful, our water is clear and we are open for business! However, we are…
Move EOC to Beach, Key or Downtown
BTW: I am boycotting the EOC – a facility set up miles away from our beaches, a facility that was built to be a bomb shelter to withstand hurricanes, a facility with…
Erin Brockovich is coming to Pensacola
Press Release: Levin, Papantonio has invited the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. (www.weitzlux.com) to join noted environmental advocates Erin Brockovich and Carol Moore to help those affected by the epic…
Outtakes: The Real Pensacola Tea Party
Can history repeat itself? Will Americans again rise to overthrow an oppressor that has threatened their freedom and quality of life like they did at the Boston Tea Party. Despite what Glenn…
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…
Buzz: Late night phone calls
My phone rang several times late last night on several topics. Here the rumors that seem to have some legs – but understand they are only buzz and haven’t been proved…yet 1….
Oceanographer Estimates Higher Rate of Leak
By IN reporter Ryne Ziemba.. Prof. Ian McDonald, professor of Oceanography at Florida State University, spoke last Saturday, May 8 at a public forum at the Hilton Garden Inn on Pensacola Beach….
Latest on BP Oil Spill
The oil spill is now 129 miles from the city of Pensacola. Based on the latest projection from NOAA, Escambia County is not anticipating any direct oil impact in the next 48…
BP ad runs in Sunday Pensacola News Journal
Pensacola’s daily newspaper fulfilled the Gannett mission of being a marketing solution…this time for British Petroleum. The ad, titled “The Gulf Oil Spill Response,” tells readers that -“BP has done and continues…
Buzz: Pelicans for Pelicans
The Pensacola Pelicans, the area’s minor league baseball team, is working on a special fundraiser with its league, American Association of Independent Baseball, to help rescue and treat Pelicans and other birds…
Exclusive: BP screwed up Exxon Valdez cleanup, too
I have been trying to get a handle on what we can truly expect from British Petroleum with this Gulf oil spill. Earlier in the week, I interviewed attorney Brent Coon, who…
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…
