Rick's Podcasts

Take Stock in Children recently welcomed 32 new scholarship recipients at the annual Take Stock Kickoff Dinner.  Fifteen new 7th graders, 12 new 8th graders and five new 10th grade students were added through a special Florida Power & Light donation.  There are now 152 students in grades 7-12 in Escambia County’s program.  Sally Lee discusses the program.

Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves discusses Kaycee LaGarde's departure, the latest on ST Engineering and downtown growth.

University of West Florida Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies and UWF Department of Theatre will present the James Meredith Trial Reenactment and Q&A at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16, in the Mainstage Theatre at the Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola campus. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required for this event. Criminology, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies will be collaborating with the Department of Theatre to put on a trial reenactment of the James Meredith trial. He was represented by Constance Baker Motley and integrated into the University of Mississippi. The performance will include theatre students, legal studies students and local attorneys. The trial will be reenacted from 4 to 5 p.m. A short Q&A and refreshments will follow. The event is generously co-sponsored by the Escambia Santa Rosa Bar Foundation.Direct Marci Duncan discusses the reenactment.

ABC News' Jim Ryan gives an early report on Hurricane Idalia's impact on the Tampa area.

Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore gives a brief update from Lafayette County as Hurricane Idalia passes over.

The full show for Monday, Aug. 28, 2023: Eric Gilmore, Steve Cain and Karen Travers.

In June, Florida House Speaker Paul Renner wrote Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz, asking him to form a committee to assess the consolidation of the state’s 20 circuit courts.  The Florida Justice Association questions the logic of consolidating a court system in a state that is growing exponentially. FJA chair Steve Cain shares his thoughts.

Hurricane and tropical storm watches have been issued for nearly every inch of Florida’s west coast as Idalia gathers strength in the Gulf of Mexico and moves north. Tampa Bay could see half a foot of rain as Idalia moves inland as a Category 3 storm late Tuesday or early Wednesday.  Jim Ryan shares the latest.

Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore shares the latest info before he heads to Tallahassee to help with the hurricane recovery.

The 3M board of directors approved a $6 billion settlement for its defective earplugs that damaged the hearing of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military and veterans. Attorney Bryan Aylstock, whose firm, Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, tried several of the cases in federal court in Pensacola announced the settlement on WCOA this morning.