Escambia County Commissioner Wilson Robertson will host a town hall meeting tomorrow night. The meeting will include a discussion about the upcoming Merlin Road drainage project and will conclude with an open…
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Life After Randy
With Randy Oliver gone, the Escambia County Commission must now decide who will take the reins as County Administrator. “I really can’t tell you for sure,†said Commission Chairman Wilson Robertson recently….
Weighing Randy
The Escambia County Commission will be publicly evaluating the performance of County Administrator Randy Oliver at its meeting this week. Afterwards, the board may vote to terminate the administrator. Commissioner Grover Robinson…
The Randy Conversation
The parameters of a discussion regarding Escambia County Administrator Randy Oliver’s contract remain a mystery. The county commission is scheduled to take up the matter during tomorrow’s work session. “I guess we’ll…
Escambia County Commission, District 1
The Escambia County Commission, District 1 primary race has two candidates trying for the seat. One is the commission’s current chairman, Wilson Robertson, who’s hoping for a swan song. The other is…
Commissioners Face Gibbs Alone
Three Escambia County Commissioners facing individual lawsuits may be on their own. The lawsuits stem from decisions each commissioner made in an official capacity. “I don’t know how the board plans to…
Chairman Wilson on Bay Bridge Toll
The Escambia County Commission didn’t score any points in Tallahassee when it recently formalized its opposition to imposing a toll on the Pensacola Bay Bridge in order to fund work on the…
Dirty Smurfs
Escambia County officials have no interest in seeing a recycling center on a collection of remediated Superfund sites. They also don’t want to see any little blue men on the properties. In…
Commissioners at the Rodeo
After losing his job following a brief and controversial stint with the Escambia County Equestrian Center, Forrest Gibbs is suing three county commissioners. The officials, he contends, interfered with his job and…
Commissioner Grinch
Before getting down to official business, Escambia County Commission Chairman Wilson Robertson took a moment to crush a child’s vision of Christmas and blow the whole Santa-scam out of the water. Commissioners…
Another view of Monday’s meeting
We asked one of our college interns/free lancers to attend the Monday meeting on consolidation to offer up what she saw and heard. Some of this didn’t make the PNJ report: About…
Two More Years
The state legislators should table the Consolidation Plan until the proposal is fully discussed by the voters and modifications made to it based on the voters’ input—not based on the demands of…