On WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen,” we had 22 guests over four days. The most played podcasts concerned the Mississippi Casino godfather, making our schools safer, Pensacola Sports’ proposal to upgrade Bay Center and build an indoor sports facility, American Magic and Lumpy DeWeese.
Pensacola attorney and developer Charles Liberis was the catalyst for the multi-billion casino industry in the Magnolia State.
Blog notes: Daily Outtakes: Liberis – Godfather of Mississippi casinos. Read more.
Two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting this morning at Apalachee High School in rural Winder, Ga. Nine people were hospitalized. The suspect is a 14-year-old student who will be charged with murder and tried as an adult. Steve Sharp, a retired deputy and former head of security and public safety for the Escambia County School District, discusses the need to better secure schools.
Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry likes Pensacola Sports’ proposal to build an indoor sports facility at Ashton Brosnaham Park.
Blog Notes: The TDC meeting to vote on the proposal is Monday at 3 p.m. Read more.
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves has returned after traveling to Dublin and Barcelona. He gives us updates on American Magic’s performance and a new site for the downtown post office.
Blog Notes: In Barcelona, the mayor was impressed with American Magic’s base camp.
“From a Pensacola level, what was really interesting is that was really the closest experience we’ve had to what a base would look like,” he said. They were pointing out some equipment as we toured the base, things that are coming back into the permanent building (at the Port of Pensacola) that are there right now. And so even from that standpoint, it was really fascinating to see.”
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Gulf Breeze High School grad Liam DeWeese has been named to the FanDuel B-Team for best college football players’ nicknames. The son of Maren and Jeff DeWeese was also the leading solo tackler in the Hatters game this weekend. Next up – Warner University Royals.
This April 21, 2023 podcast still attracts listeners:
On June 13, 2003, Martha Dyer Campbell, 85, was found dead by her sister in the garden room of her big house in the affluent Wilzin Park neighborhood of Greenville, Miss. She had been beaten brutally with a blunt object, and a towel was placed over her head.
Campbell was a well-known community activist who had entertained Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove in the same room nine days before her murder. Her death rocked her family and Greenville, and it remains unsolved.
Journalist Larrison Campbell returned to Greenville 20 years later to reexamine her grandmother’s murder and run down the many rumors about the case, including that her first cousin might have been the murderer.
Her investigation is told in the recently released podcast – “Devil in the Ditch.” She discusses the podcast and her return to her hometown with Rick Outzen, who also grew up in Greenville.