Pensacola Tech Park to get first building

The Space Florida board approved yesterday the Memorandum of Understanding between Space Florida, the Pensacola Industrial Development Corporation as landowner/land lessor, and prospective tenant organizations,…

Continue Reading

Visit Pensacola Board meeting today

Readers have asked that I post when the Visit Pensacola meets today. Visit Pensacola Board of Trustees Feb. 5 3 p.m. Hagler/Mason Meeting Room Second…

Continue Reading

Latest Market Research on Pensacola Tourism

Visit Pensacola meets today. In its agenda packet is the marketing research update on tourism for this past fall. The top 10 Visitor Origins for…

Continue Reading

Founder/CEO of National Energy USA to speak to Gulf Coast Economics Club

The Gulf Coast Economics Club is proud to announce our Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014 program: Mr Dave Robau, founder and CEO of National Energy USA….

Continue Reading

Varona makes offer to stay open while city completes new RFP process

Robert Varona, whose contract for food concessions at the Pensacola International Airport expires on March 31, has sent the following letter to Mayor Ashton Hayward…

Continue Reading

Dollar General on Spanish Trail dead issue

Greg Rettig, who organized the grassroots effort to prevent Dollar General from building a store on Spanish Trail and Summit Blvd, posted on his Facebook…

Continue Reading

Panhandle Tiger Bay Club Presents Michelle Hurdle and The Status and Future of Airbus in the Area

Economic Development spirits were flying high in Alabama after the global aerospace giant, Airbus, chose Mobile’s Brookley Aeroplex for its first U.S. airplane assembly plant….

Continue Reading

Leadership Pensacola seeks nominations

The Pensacola Chamber Foundation has announced that Jan. 31, through Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, nominations will be accepted for the 50 available slots in next…

Continue Reading

DIB meeting rescheduled to Monday

We received an email from Ron Butlin, DIB executive director: Due to some schedule conflicts the DIB’s meeting regularly scheduled for Tuesday February 4 will…

Continue Reading

House of Sticks: Everything in Moderation

Remember that old line our parents used to throw at us before we engaged in a little beer drinking? The concept certainly applies to the…

Continue Reading

New Tax Watch study looks at value of economic development projects for local communities

The new Florida TaxWatch Report, “Diversifying Florida’s Economy Through Local Economic Development”, has an impact analysis of common economic development projects. It focuses on three…

Continue Reading

BP has new target to avoid paying claims

BP has found a new target to avoid paying claims resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster: court-appointed administrator Patrick Juneau. Juneau evaluates the compensation…

Continue Reading

No IN Your Head Radio today, taking a sleet day

With the roads icy and bridges closed, IN Your Head Radio will not be on the air today. We will be back tomorrow.

Continue Reading

Florida Chamber leads discussion on how Jacksonville can be global leader

Experts on transportation, planning and business development will discuss the importance of keeping Florida – and particularly the Jacksonville region – positioned as a global…

Continue Reading

Two losses

Two media stories caught my attention this morning. Corbett Davis resigned from the Downtown Improvement Board. He was the board’s chairman and his leadership will…

Continue Reading

Scott finds more corporate fees to cut in 2014-15

Gov. Rick Scott released another component of his election-year proposal to cut taxes and fees by $500 million, this time by seeking to slash $33…

Continue Reading

AG Secretary Putnam leaves for Panama

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam leaves today for Panama City, Panama, on a three-day mission that will include seeking to expand Florida growers’ access to the…

Continue Reading

South Walton featured on Emeril’s TV show this Sunday

Chef Emeril Lagasse Samples Restaurants in South Walton County on Latest Emeril’s Florida TV Episode -Local FRLA Restaurants in Sandestin, Seaside, Seagrove and Santa Rosa…

Continue Reading

Scott proposes $30 million to train workforce in STEM fields

By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida Workforce training in science and technology fields would get $30 million from Gov. Rick Scott in the…

Continue Reading

House of Sticks: Origin of Derivatives

One can trace the origin of derivatives, for the purpose of the future delivery of a product, to Mesopotamia circa 2000 BC. The actual trading…

Continue Reading