Independent News‘Business’ Archives
Official announcement on O’Sullivan Creel merger
The certified public accounting firms of Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, LLC, Wilson, Price, Barranco, Blankenship & Billingsley, P.C. and O’Sullivan Creel, LLP are pleased to announce the joining of their firms effective January 1, 2012. This strategic move takes three significant firms, [...]
Buzz: O’Sullivan Creel merges with Alabama firms
O'Sullivan Creel announced this morning that it is merging with CPA firms from Montgomery (Wilson, Price, Barranco, Blankenship & Billingsley) and Birmingham, Alabama (Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino). More later.
RE Power Team joins Pointe South
Press Release: Pointe South Real Estate is expanding to occupy a new office in Pensacola at 280 Airport Blvd, as they join forces with the successful, local broker team of Robin Spence and Heather Gray. Pointe South has operated for 16 years in Perdido Key and with this addition, can better serve [...]
Wake Up with Labor
In conjunction with statewide Awake the State rallies, local labor activists will gather tomorrow at state Representative Clay Ford’s local office. The Northwest Florida Federation of Labor/Central Labor Council will lead the local Awake the State event. The rally will run from 4 to 5:30 p.m., [...]
Gulf Power rate hearing on Tuesday
Gulf Power is back before the Public Service Commission on Tuesday for its rate increase. Last week, the utility filed a request that its transmission plan be kept confidential, claiming the report would expose vulnerabilities of its lines to potential wrongdoers. Read 00070-12-2. The rumors of [...]
Oliver says County never contacted about seats
George Hawthorne claimed last week on this blog that Escambia County had been contacted about the stadium seats that the CMPA bought but later sold of scrap. County Administrator Randy Oliver sent me the following email which states the county's Park & Recreation Department was never contacted [...]
Would you trust BP to drill in the Arctic Circle?
Not me. BP--which has come to stand for Bulls$%t Petroleum-- has proven that it is a serial polluter (if not a serial killer). According to news reports, BP, Shell and Cairn Energy are on the draft list of companies to be called to give evidence to the British Government's Environmental Audit [...]
For Sale: Pensacola Civic Center
Escambia County commissioners are looking to unload the Pensacola Civic Center. But Commission Chairman Wilson Robertson isn’t getting his hopes up. “Personally, I don’t think we’re gonna get a sale-offer for $10 million,” Robertson said. Recently, Commissioner Gene Valentino had a [...]
Ice Flyers add local owner
Press Release: The Ice Flyers ownership group, headed by Tim Kerr, added a new member to the group prior to the season. Greg Harris joins the organization as a minority owner and Alternate Governor. He moved from Canada down to the Gulf Coast at the start of the season and has been actively [...]
Unemployment Ticks Down to 8.5%, Tea Party apologizes to Obama
...not really... A burst of hiring in December pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in nearly three years, giving the economy a boost at the end of 2011.(Jan. 6) Source: Associated Press
Hayward holds PNJ Port Photo Shoot. No gunshots fired
After reading the press release, PNJ story and our reporter's notes, I find myself asking, "Where's the beef" Months after the Port Advisory Committee releases its report, Mayor Ashton Hayward tells us what? He will push for an expansion of Off-Shore Inland's presence, boot CEMEX and look for money [...]
Port as Offshore-Drilling Pitstop?
The Global 1200 is the latest gargantuan fixture up at Pensacola’s port. It’s a whopper of a vessel, with steel braids of cranes and infrastructure stretching to the clouds. The ship is used to service offshore oil rigs and its looming, industrial hulk of a presence—the skyline of a working [...]