Author: Rick Outzen
Ax the Homestead Tax files PAC organization papers
Press Release: The citizens’ constitutional petition initiative to amend Florida’s constitution by replacing the current property tax system with a sales tax-based system took another…
Sen. Martinez in town
– and Commissioner Mike Whitehead hasn’t challenged him to a fight. Sen. Martinez tours JACC U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) was in Pensacola in the…
County land sale buzz
From a concerned citizen: Can you look into why the county is selling what they call surplus land at the Equestrian Center? The land in…
Nothing gets done
The county salary database has now been used over 22,000 times. As much as the county leaders want to complain about how unfair it was…
Rove resigns
Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August. Mumbles something about a rats leaving a…
Escambia County population growth slows
The New York Times did an this week on how the demographics are changing for counties around the country – Minorities Now Form Majority in…
Gannett denies sale
Yesterday the IN Daily News reported (Gannett Selling?)on buzz on the Wall Street Journal that Gannett (owner of the Pensacola News Journal, Bella, Pelican, Home…
Presidential polls
The Kitchens Group – Florida political consulting, marketing and polling firm – has released a Florida poll showing party frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani…
Guiliani names local chairman
GOP presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani has named Kristi Emmons his campaign chairman for Escambia County. Greg Evers was named the Santa Rosa County chair earlier…
Lessons from County Salaries
What I saw when I reviewed the Escambia County salaries was: 1. We have a great deal of duplication between constitutional officers. Our first step…
Record Day for Inweekly.net
Our website – inweekly.net – had the most visitors in single day, 9322, on Thursday. This shatters our previous record by nearly 2000! We received…
Who makes what?
The Independent News felt that while we’re debating our county budget and whether or not we should consolidate both between constitutional officers and with the…
Hall has a myspace
Apparently freshman Pensacola city councilman Sam Hall was once a deejay. Check out www.myspace.com/pensacolalive365
Sign of the times
Nine Mile Road mainstay is closing after 50 years. Ray Cranford’s Barbecue just hasn’t recovered from Hurricane Ivan and has been losing money. Folks, the…
Surprise, surprise. Miller says we are winning war
Our Congressman Jeff Miller and five other members of a U.S. congressional delegation spent Monday meeting with the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David…
GB tables accident surcharge
The Gulf Breeze City Council had a change of heart at its regular council meeting last night and voted to table an ordinance designed to…
Edwards campaign strategy
…or “How to attack Hillary Clinton’s lead and show you’re a viable candidate.” Democratic presidential contender John Edwards is criticizing former President Clinton, arguing that…
Fewer voters in Florida
The state voter rolls show that we have few people registered to vote in Florida than we did three years ago. Why? In 2005, the…
County Budgets are online
Escambia County has its proposed budget up on the web – Proposed Budget for FY 2007/2008 – $415,581,059. Santa Rosa County’s link is 2007-2008 Tentative…
New INweekly website
Check out new website. We’ve added several new features, including daily news, A&E, Music and Film/TV reports. Plus, you can check on the blog, too….
