Author: Rick Outzen
Taxes for cars, not economy
People have asked me why can’t Escambia County follow the lead of Sarasota County and fast-track its Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) budget to jumpstart…
ECUA blocking curbside recycling
Everything with Emerald Coast Utility Authority is a negotiation. Cleaning up the water that it supplied the to Gulf Breeze in the 1990s; the IP…
Notes: Commission budget workshop Mar. 19
Board of County Commissioners Public Hearings Preliminary Budget Workshop Fiscal Year 2008/2009 Countywide Budget 19 March 2008 Call to order at 8:35 a.m. Grover Robinson…
Cannada-Wynn gave EW Bullock zero
At last week’s Pensacola City Council meeting, Leroy Boyd of Movement for Change and others made a big deal about E.W. Bullock being awarded the…
pnj.com
The new pnj.com website is locking up my Foxfire browser. Understand my computer isn’t the latest model and I do have a number of spam…
Notes: Joint City-County meeting 3.18
Joint Meeting of the Escambia County Board of Commissioners and the Pensacola City Council 18 March 2008 Hagler Mason Conference Room, City Hall Note: This…
More on Charter Review
We also received this email report on the meeting: “Sharon Barnett from the League of Women Voters made a very good point that I think…
Border patrol expert on radio
I will have Zack Taylor on IN Your Head Radio today. Mr. Taylor is a charter member of the National Association of Former Border Patrol…
Find the news on pnj.com
We have a new contest at the IN. Find the news on pnj.com. See the videos. See the photo galleries. See their blogs and forums….
Notes: Charter Review Mar. 17
Much of Monday night’s Charter Review Commission meeting centered around questioning City Manager Tom Bonfield on his duties, ethics, his relationship with the council, and…
Pensacola Beach No. 7
From Visit Florida: Four Florida Beaches Named Best in the U.S. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (March 17, 2008) – Four Florida beaches are being recognized as best…
More Julin and Chiquita Brand lawsuit
The NY Times picked up this story today. The radio interview was powerful. Julin talked about the incident and how it tested her faith. Read…
Radio: Tania Julin, Mark Rich’s widow
On IN Your Head Radio, I have Tania Julin, the widow of Mark Rich. Rich was one of three missionaries – Mark Rich, Dave Mankins…
559 days since CMP vote
It has been 559 days since Pensacola voters approved the Community Maritime Park – or 1 year, 6 months, 12 days. 559 days can be…
Pensacola loses again…to Dothan
Developer Ronnie Gilley plans to build a Branson, Mo. type entertainment complex near Dothan called Country Crossings. It will be on 766 acres on U.S….
More prison, more tax dollars
There is a price for tough law-and-order policies. The Daily News reports that “state officials estimate Florida’s prisons will swell to 100,000 inmates by year’s…
Moby fails to see how growth works
Mark O’Brien doesn’t understand how growth works. It’s this statement in his Sunday column that has got me thinking: The pooh-bahs of Pensacola can promote…
PNJ posters to answer for attacks
The most foul posters to the PNJ website may have themselves with more legal troubles than they ever counted on. This time it won’t be…
City Council attendance
The Pensacola City Council held 21 regular meetings in 2007. Mike DeSorbo missed 4. Marty Donovan and John Fogg missed 3 each. Ronald Townsend, Jewel…
