Category: Buzz
Buzz: DIB tickets funeral
The buzz around downtown is the Downtown Improvement Board meter brigade actually ticketed a funeral procession. There is also talk of a possible lawsuit against…
Buzz: Hayward delivers hot water
Yesterday Mayor Ashton Hayward ordered that the hot water be turned on at Pensacola City Hall. Apparently some time ago, former City Manager Al Coby…
Buzz: Communications consolidation will work
How can Mayor Hayward be so sure? Because it has been done successfully in Mobile, Ala. Hayward had lunch yesterday with Mike Dow, the strong…
Buzz: GBMS out at 1:30 pm next school year
The daily newspaper wrote about the Santa Rosa public schools dropping a period for both the middle and high schools. The savings will help the…
Buzz: Morgan to file today
The buzz is Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan will file today to run for his second term of office.
Buzz: Hubbs-Sea World touring city
Officials from Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute are in Pensacola today looking at possible locations for their new research center.
Buzz: New Pensacola Bay Bridge
There will be a new Pensacola Bay Bridge. In the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a push for a second Pensacola Bay Bridge–one that…
Buzz: Okaloosa School layoffs
From Okaloosa County readers: Gee it is certainly funny that there has been no mention in any paper or on the local news about the…
Buzz: Psst, oil is still on the beach
Email from a reader: “at the beach 2day by firehouse, frikin oil everywhere, but its all gone,no oil. BULL!”
Buzz: Gingrich will announce Wednesday
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will announce his his campaign for the Republican nomination for president on Wednesday via Twitter and Facebook.
Buzz: Former Police Chief calling council
Buzz: I’ve heard from two sources that former Pensacola Police Chief John Mathis has been calling Pensacola City Council members regarding the upcoming discussion on…
Buzz: NorthEscambia shows Patel-Rocker connection
William Reynolds has covered the proposed electric car plant that was supposedly headed to Century? Patel was behind that and cut Rocker in financially on…
Buzz: Rocker got Patel UWF spot
The power broker for appointments from Gov. Rick Scott isn’t Jim Reeves, Lewis Bear, Collier Merrill, Garrett Walton or even Clay Ford. It’s Art Rocker,…
Buzz: Picking Team hampered
Narrowing down all the names submitted for Pensacola’s new Double AA baseball team was hampered by trademarks. We asked Quint Studer, team owner, about the…
Buzz: Washington High to lose another dean
Booker T. Washington High School had four deans two years. Last fall one dean was cut. The word we’re getting is another dean will be…
Buzz: ECSO hitting wall on school investigations
Buzz: Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan has ordered a review of all the reports from his deputies regarding incidents at the schools. The word I’m…
Buzz: Battle over interim city attorney
Mayor Ashton Hayward wants to hire the Messer Law Firm as the interim city attorney for $10K per month. Jim Messer is a former assistant…
Buzz: BOCC considers arming code enforcement
At today’s workshop, Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino proposed letting the code enforcement officers carry concealed weapons.
Buzz: Plea deal in Tate case
My sources tell me that the 16-year-old suspect in the March 1 sexual assault at Tate High School will plead guilty on Monday, April 11…
Buzz: Eddie Todd to step down from CMPA chair
The original board members of Community Maritime Park Associates (post-2006 referendum) continue to fall. CMPA chair Eddie Todd is expected to step down at today’s…
