Tabatha Fields The Corsair Pensacola State College will be sponsoring the third annual Money Matters conference Monday, Dec. 3, at noon through Monday, Dec. 10. The online conference is designed to teach students innovative ways about making money instead of losing money. Also, it will help students learn how to handle their finances as well...
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County contemplating gas tax to fund bus system
Brian McLellan The Corsair The Escambia County Commission is expected to vote on Nov. 19 on a measure that would add a four-cent gas tax county wide in order to fund the Escambia County Area Transit. According to the Pensacola News Journal, the vote, scheduled one day before Commissioner-elects Lumon May of District 3 and...
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At the finish line
Tabatha Fields The Corsair With election time here, and almost gone, Americans will be casting their votes to determine who will be the 45th president of the United States. Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are in a close race to the finish line. According to the Huffington Post, “On October 30, 2012 Obama led...
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Romney rallies Pensacola
Allyson Doty The Corsair Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney campaigned at the Pensacola Civic Center downtown Pensacola Saturday Oct. 27. Doors opened at 9:15 a.m. where thousands of people came to hear what Romney had to say about his campaign. Two hours later, the civic center was almost full. There was a section of people wearing...
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Pretty in pink
Tabatha Fields The Corsair In spite of the cold weather, limited parking, and heavy traffic, thousands of pink-adorned breast cancer survivors and supporters showed their care for breast cancer awareness at the 10th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk early Saturday morning in Pensacola. People in the Cordova Mall parking lot registered for the...
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Are students with eligibility going to vote?
Brandi Meriwether The Corsair Are Students with eligibility going to vote in the upcoming election? With the 2012 election quickly coming our way, most students are paying close attention to politics and the presidential campaign. This is going to be a very important decision for students. Students with new eligibility are struggling to decide if...
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Pensacola State College: New center in Century
Tabatha Fields The Corsair Despite a gray cast of clouds, and rain that soon followed, the ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour of the new Pensacola State College center in Century, Fla., was a success. Students, mayors of the community, clergy members, staff, board members, and excited citizens of the community eagerly waited to partake in...
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Are students voting?
Tabatha Fields The Corsair The Escambia County Elections staff visited Pensacola State College Monday, Sept. 17, to encourage students to vote. There was a table outside the student center with pamphlets containing information on voting, and there was a small book adorned with the United States flag on the cover entitled, The U.S. Constitution-...
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Bright future scholarship ice cream social
Tabatha Fields The Corsair A crowd of 200- 250 Pensacola State College students attended the “Bright Future Scholarship Ice Cream Social.” There were only three lucky winners: Montel Michael, John Slay, and Shani Walker. John Slay, one of the scholarship winners said, “I was shocked when my name was called. I won a $100 gas...
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Pensacola State College announces new job opportunity
Tabatha Fields The Corsair “Marshall’s. Now hiring for over 90 Retail Positions” is the message Pensacola State College students received via Pirate Mail Sept. 9, 2012. Hundreds of Pensacola State College students, and people that were not students waited patiently to be interviewed with hopes of being hired for one of the 90 positions...