Rick's Podcasts

Rick's Podcasts

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Rick's Podcasts episodes

  • Episode 2531: Stanford coach breaks wins record
    Tara VanDerveer, the Stanford women's basketball head coach, passed retired Duke legend Mike Krzyzewski with her 1,203rd career victory yesterday.  UWF women's basketball coach, Stephanie Yelton, discussed being recruited by VanDeveer when she was in high school. 
    9 min
  • Episode 2530: Charter School Moving
    State Rep. Alex Andrade discusses HB 109 regarding cities converting public schools to charters. He also talks about an amendment that would force shrinking school districts to sell property that they have been holding for years.
    8 min
  • Episode 2525: Year of the Dragon Celebration
    The Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida (JAS) will usher in the “Year of the Dragon” with its 30th annual Japanese New Year Celebration on Sat., Jan. 20, 2024, at the Wright Place in downtown Pensacola. Festivities will take place from 12 noon until 4 p.m. and will include performances by the popular Matsuriza taiko drummers, Japanese dancing and children’s performances, martial arts and sumo demonstrations, music, food vendors, and other cultural displays, plus a silent auction.To learn more, visit visit jasnwfl.org or facebook.com/jasnwfl.
    6 min
  • Episode 2523: Pen America's Katie Blankenship on book ban case
    In an important victory for students, parents, authors, and the First Amendment, on Jan. 12,  Federal Judge T. Kent Wetherell rejected a bid to dismiss a lawsuit challenging decisions by the Escambia County School Board to remove or restrict access to hundreds of library books. Pen America's Katie Blankenship discusses the importance of the ruling and the case.
    15 min

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Author and newspaper publisher Rick Outzen explores the news behind the headlines with newsmakers and the journalists that cover them.