Author: Rick Outzen
Panama City may get port tenant
Panama City has an Intermodal Distribution Center to go with its port. It’s an industrial park near Hwy 231 for companies who agree to use…
County buys land for westside park
The Perdido Bay Youth Sports Association will get its ball park. Escambia County commissioners on Thursday approved, by a 4-1 vote, the purchase of 217…
PNJ reports Touart wants better pension
Three days have you read it here on the blog, Pensacola News Journal reports Touart fighting for his pension. The county commissioners didn’t take the…
Springdale ballpark to open April 2008
In Springdale, Ark., a referendum passed on July 11, 2006 to build a baseball park by extending a 1% sales tax. The vote was close…
Baseball in Billings
Here is how another city moved quickly to get its baseball park built: In Billings, Montana, city residents passed a referendum for a new park…
Mobile job market bright
From Mobile Press Register Mobile area employers expect 2008 to start much stronger than 2007 in terms of hiring, according to the results of the…
Possible Touart game plan
I’ve been trying to figure out what is the Touart game plan with this last minute move to get on the 12/13 BOCC agenda: 1….
Atty says Touart still county employee
Former (?) County administrator George Touart’s attorney has sent a letter to Escambia County Commissioner Mike Whitehead that says Touart was never terminated by the…
Draft RFP for CMP developers
Here is the draft for Request for Proposal for the master developer of the Community Maritime Park: rfpmaritime-park.pdf Enjoy!
Fred Thompson on IN Your Head Radio
The Fred Thompson campaign team working with NewsRadio 1620 to get presidential hopeful Fred Thompson on the show today. We have a shot to get…
Hall ignores emails
Last week, a big show was made to send Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall emails in support of the Community Maritime Park. The Friends of…
Council moves ahead on CMP, sort of
Notes on the Pensacola city council’s discussion on the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park at its committee of the whole meeting: The Vince Whibbs…
Springfest and PLT crap out
The Pensacola City Council wasn’t in the holiday spirit at its Committee of the Whole meeting yesterday. SpringFest board president Bobby Marcus was eager for…
WEAR TV 3 crime report
Now that the local Sinclair-owned television station has expanded its news coverage, we are getting even more crime stories. “If it bleeds, it leads” is…
Beach turnaround
While I have criticized the SRIA and county for being so slow to do anything about parking and the feds for not completing roads to…
Beach access vs. tourism
Walton County is trying to figure how to balance tourism with public access. In Escambia County, we handle it by having overcrowded parking for locals,…
Disney coming to Panhandle?
News Herald reports: Planners met with Washington County commissioners last week to discuss the future of 50,000 acres of undeveloped land long rumored to be…
Pelican/IN promotion wins award
The IN sponsored this promotion FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 5th, 2007 Cleveland, OH – For the seventh consecutive year industry website Gameops.com has announced its…
PNJ misses Pearl Harbor Day
Maybe it is in their print edition somewhere, but I can’t find where the Pensacola News Journal wrote anything in today’s issue about Pearl Harbor…
County commission studies justice system
At last, the Escambia County commissioners recognize that there just may be a problem with the local criminal justice system. Usually I hate studies (this…
