Posts Tagged ‘Rick Outzen’
Outtakes: Too Many Rapes
By Rick Outzen Interviewing rape victims is tough. It’s something I’ve done too often in my career. Five years ago, our newspaper interviewed Shauna Newell (Independent News. “Shauna’s [...]
Outtakes: UCF Nightmare Too Close to Home
By Rick Outzen The phone call was one I never thought I would get from my youngest daughter. “Dad, I’m okay. The campus security has the gunman. He’s dead,” my daughter Claney, a coed [...]
Outtakes: New Lions Arise
By Rick Outzen A hundred African-American men walked on Friday, Feb. 15 the streets of the Montclair neighborhood picking up trash and letting residents know that they aren’t alone. The walk [...]
Outtakes 1/24/13
Busting The Prodigal Myth By Rick Outzen Over the years, the Independent News has written about the talent drain as young people leave the area for better paying jobs and more [...]
Outtakes 2/23/12
END PLANTATION POLITICS by Rick Outzen When this paper takes stands on issues, particularly ones that I know will ruffle feathers, I am guided by these words of Dr. Martin Luther King, [...]
Outtakes 7/7/11
GROWING PAINS Watching the Pensacola City Council adapt to the new city charter has been painful. For nearly 80 years, city government was run by a staff that answered to a council that had ballooned [...]
Tarnished Turnaround
Warrington Middle Puts Malcolm In The Middle By Rick Outzen Last year was to be the school year Warrington Middle School turned around. In fact, that is what Superintendent Malcolm Thomas [...]
Outtakes 4/7
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT Children have the fundamental right to attend a school that is safe. Unfortunately, the Florida primary and secondary education system is myopically focused on test scores. Good [...]
Outtakes 10.28
SURVIVAL OF HOPE Recently I had a heated discussion with a friend over the future of America and whether Americans are too stupid to ever improve. His arguments mirror the prevailing thought of these [...]
Outtakes 10.21
WHAT IF As the November 2010 Election Day approaches, Pensacola is firmly entrenched as the economic engine of the Gulf Coast. The hope and dreams that its citizens had for the past decade exceeded [...]
Hangout '13: Angels on the Main Stages 
Hangout '13: NOLA at Hangout
Happenings 5/16/13
Hangout '13: Kickoff the Party With Lotus
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