Author: Rick Outzen
Wiggins gives Pensacola Promise the cold shoulder
After listening to hours on schools, bathrooms for Roger Scott, freedom of speech lawsuits and wage/benefit comparison studies, Mayor Mike Wiggins shot down Council member…
Enterprise lasts under 10 minutes
Go, P.C.! Go! The only bumps in the road were Diane Mack asking about using local contractors for airport demolition of existing rental car service…
Neighborhood committee lasts an hour
Fairly heavy agenda. Sam Hall did a good job of keeping it moving. Other than the Roger Scott Tennis bathrooms, the other big item was…
Tennis bathrooms win over youth soccer
The Neighborhoods committee approved the reallocation of LOST funds from youth soccer fields to bathrooms for the new clay courts at Roger Scott Tennis Center….
OMG: City Council spends 20 minutes discussing schools
For the past 20 minutes, the Pensacola City Council has spent time convincing each other that the Escambia County School Board should give the city…
Dogtrack can increase ante
The Florida House and Senate did agree on a gambling agreement with the Seminoles. One benefactor of the agreement, if it’s signed by Gov. Crist,…
Kids Soccer lose LOST funds
In the Neighborhood Service agenda is a recommendation to take $200,000 of the Penny for Progress funds (Local Option Sales Tax) that had been planned…
Big day for City Council
What will the Pensacola City Council do about pensions? City Manager Al Coby has recommended a study of wages and benefits. Price tag $25K. Will…
Bingo parlor never came to planning board
On my earlier post, I wrote that the bingo parlor had been approved by the planning board. It was not. The plans never came before…
Meanwhile another shooting
This time at the Red Roof Inn – in the Third World location formerly known as University Mall area. WEAR TV reports the shooting happened…
DOJ: ECSO is 20 years behind
At the Lake Charlene Homeowners Association meeting, Sheriff David Morgan said a Department of Justice investigator told him that the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office is…
“Bloods are here”
Sheriff David Morgan told a homeowners association on Saturday afternoon that the national gang founded in Los Angeles –The Bloods— is in Escambia County. Bloods…
Another city study for $25K
Pensacola City Manager Al Coby is recommending to the city council a $25,000 comparative study of the city’s compensation, benefits and pension plans. The city…
Judge approves decree on Santa Rosa schools
Press release: In a consent decree approved today by a federal judge in northern Florida, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Florida…
Joint county-city meeting date set
The next joint meeting of the Escambia County Commission and Pensacola City Council has been set for May 19 at 4 p.m. No agenda has…
Some seniors may not graduate
At least 170 Escambia County high school seniors may not receive their diplomas this spring after failing portions of the 10th-grade Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test…
Littlejohn to leave PSO
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra has named Christina Littlejohn, director of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, as its new executive director.
Sims arrested, charged with stealing $70K
Former president of the Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce, Darnell Sims has been arrested for fraudulently obtaining almost $70,000 in state funds intended for…
Bruno’s closing
The sign is up on the Gulf Breeze store. Publix know rules the local grocery market. The Food World locations in Pensacola will remain open.
Morris liked cars
Former Okaloosa County Sheriff Charlie Morris like new cars, according to the Daily News. Morris went through 41 vehicles during the 12 years he spent…
