The sad song of tests plays on
- April 13, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
Test scores are being used to take control over schools away from educators and classrooms and put it in the hands of bureaucrats and corporate test-makers.
BRIEFCASE: Ideaworks gets top marks for tourism marketing
- April 13, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / economy
Project Greenshores a finalist in national contest
- April 13, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
Bank of Pensacola will finance new YMCA
- April 13, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
The YMCA of Northwest Florida's Board of Directors chose Bank of Pensacola to provide financing for the new, $16 million downtown YMCA.
Lawmakers tweak extended foster care law
- April 13, 2015
- / Margie Menzel
- / government
Lawmakers are working on changes to a two-year-old law that extended foster care in Florida from ages 18 to 21 and sought to give kids more time to prepare for independence.
Drone camera bill lifts off in Senate
- April 13, 2015
- / Jim Turner
- / government
The Senate has launched a measure that could open airspace for private drone users, while seemingly more-restrictive proposals are ready to go to the House and Senate floors.
Lawmakers reel in cash before session starts
- April 13, 2015
- / Jim Saunders
- / government
Florida lawmakers are barred from raising campaign cash during the legislative session.
NASA’s Stennis Space Center gives SpaceX’s Mars plans a boost
- April 12, 2015
- / Lisa Monti
- / economy
SSC plays a key role in a highly successful, innovative commercial space company, testing parts of the powerful engine that will one day boost the company’s massive Mars Colonial Transporter.
Katie Higgins, first female Blue Angels pilot, takes to the sky in C-130 'Fat Albert'
- April 12, 2015
- / Ron Stallcup
- / community-dashboard
