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Hayward’s District 7 Town Hall
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward will host a town hall in District 7 next week. Here is the city press release: Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward will continue his popular series of “Taking City Hall to the Citizens” town hall meetings with a meeting in District 7 on Monday, April 15. The meeting [...]
Fire Boat One
There will soon be a new boat on the local waterways—the Pensacola Fire Department’s Fire Boat One. The department, along with Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Pensacola City Council, will host a christening ceremony for the vessel tomorrow morning. Fire Boat One—which will be used to fight [...]
Oliver Maritime Report missing from CMPA agenda
Consultant Randy Oliver released last month his report on the Maritime Park finances. Oliver met with the CMPA board, but no action was taken. He has had discussions with Scott Remmington, attorney for the Blue Wahoos. The team is waiting for some proposal from the mayor, who paid for the [...]
Mayor sandbagged Wahoos on Oliver Report
Weeks ago, I wrote about how Nate Monroe "happened" to get an advance copy of consultant Randy Oliver's report on the Community Maritime Park before CMPA chairman Collier Merrill and his board, Pensacola City Council and the Blue Wahoos had an opportunity to review it. Those close to the mayor [...]
Stand down, fumbles and Act II this week
Last week was one of those rare weeks when news seemed to come from every direction. We had Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll, the first African-American female to ever hold that position, resign hours before Attorney General Pam Bondi and other law enforcement agencies announced nearly 60 arrests [...]
Camelot’s Town Hall
Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers will host a town hall March 19; the forum will focus on the development of Camelot Park. Here’s the city press release: Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers will hold a town hall meeting next week for residents of the Camelot Neighborhood to [...]
Another Hayward staged showdown on YMCA and CMP
The stage is set for another melodramatic showdown. This one is on whether the YMCA will be allowed to lease a parcel at the Community Maritime Park for its new $10-million downtown facility. Alas, as of this writing, no one is sure where Mayor Hayward stands on the lease or even if the [...]
Where is Mayor Hayward?
Today, Nate Monroe has a column in the daily newspaper regarding the new YMCA. One sentence early in the article struck me: "But it will be up to council members to decide if those financial benefits — as well as others that advocates of the waterfront Y have argued would materialize — are [...]
Reynolds forgot about this email
The cover up is always worse than the original actions. And the trouble with lies, it's hard to keep up with them. While City Administrator Bill Reynolds was quick yesterday to place blame on former Chief of Staff John Asmar for Derek Cosson's anonymously posting on this blog and other websites, [...]
ATU 1395 video to City Council
The city council will discuss the new gas tax today:
Asmar steps down as Chief of Staff
City of Pensacola Press Release: The City of Pensacola announced today that John Asmar would step down as Chief of Staff and Special Counsel in order to devote more time to his private law practice. Asmar was a member of Mayor Ashton Hayward’s transition team and joined the Office of the Mayor [...]
Who at City Hall is anonymously pushing mayor’s political agenda?
Somebody is using the Pensacola City Hall’s server to promote Mayor Ashton Hayward’s political agenda on this blog, using a variety of names. Some of are clearly fake. Some of the comments attack the Pensacola police and the city council. Derek Cosson, the mayor’s public information [...]