Press Release: Members of the Sheriff’s Gang Unit arrested two local gang members yesterday after a reported drive-by shooting. On Tuesday, November 30, at around 3:00 pm deputies responded to a reported…
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Another EBO complaint
Tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. the CMPA’s EBO Committee will hear a report from the EBO Compliance Officer Lou Ray on a complaint by GB Green Construction regarding subcontract Heaton Brothers Construction. When…
Second body identified
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has identified the second body found in a wooded area off of Nine Mile Road near the University of West Florida campus – Debra Ann Jones. A…
MPDP battles EBO complaint
Promises: kept or broken? — Part 2 The man who drafted the Equal Business Opportunity agreement between Community Maritime Park Associates and Maritime Park Development Partners says that Scott Davison has never…
Buzz: Serial killer on the loose
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office has found the bodies of two women, one a convicted prostitute, in a wooded area just south of Nine Mile Road, off of Jernigan Road. Both bodies…
Bell to retire from PPD
Press Release: When Pensacola Police Sgt. When Pensacola Police Sgt. Robert Bell retires Wednesday (Dec. 1), the local Fraternal Order of Police Lodge will lose its longest serving president. Bell, 54, is…
Post Black Friday, Post Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday
Sacred Heart & IN are supporting Florida Backpacks for Kids Program at the Bay Area Food Bank. For $110, you can provide enough food to fill a backpack and feed an Escambia…
Davison pay unclear
I spent an hour this morning reviewing the invoices that have been submitted to the CMPA for the maritime park. According to the MPDP invoices, Scott Davison was paid $85,004 from August…
Buzz: County shake-up?
The Escambia County Complex is buzzing rumors that one of the commissioners is considering resignation. Who? & Why? —are the questions. Insiders are tight–lipped, but confirm this is more than a rumor….
New Outrage in the Gulf
My latest article for The Daily Beast is on a new report that shows Congress bears substantial blame for the weak response to largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Funds authorized since…
Land Capital/Davison has $7M+ judgment against them
The default judgment for the garnishment has been apparently set aside, according to my sources (Davison Default Judgment Disposition, but there is an even bigger default judgment in Arizona against Scott Davison…
2010 Pelican Drop Schedule
2010 EVENT SCHEDULE CAT Country/International Paper Stage (Intendencia St) 5pm to 8pm- Children’s Pelican Celebration • At the stroke of 8 pm the Pelican will rise and light • up along with…
MPDP has $300K+ default judgment
It’s Case No. 2010-CA-1657 – a default final judgment by Wells Fargo Bank vs. LCG Mesa, LLC and Scott Davison. Maritime Park Development Partners is being hit with the default judgment for…
Buzz: Former St. Pete mayor advising Hayward
Former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker has been advising Pensacola Mayor-elect Ashton Hayward. In a telephone interview, Hayward said that he has had several conversations with Baker, who was elected St. Petersburg…
Buzz: It’s FSU, not UF
Expect the PNJ to get phone calls today about its Notebook column on the front page of the Sports section. The title is “UF win was extra special for seniors.” Florida State…
Promises: kept or broken?
The Community Maritime Park Associates board agreed to a Covenant with the Community which promised the park would be the most inclusive project in the city’s history. That Covenant has been supplanted…
Buzz: Gang war brewing?
The shooting at the Moorings Apartments on Old Spanish Trail Friday evening, Nov. 19 that killed Prentiss Mitchell may be tied to the November 6 drive-by shooting on Texar Drive of Joel…
Gulf partially closed to shrimping
Mobile Press Register reports that NOAA has closed 4,200 miles of Gulf to trawling for royal red shrimp. Why? A shrimper found tar balls in his net Saturday. The royal red shrimp…
No Peek Promotion
I love this promotion that The Oar House is running. Beginning 12/1/10 thru 2/28/11, the restaurant will pass out more than 1,500 No Peek Envelopes with over $10K in prizes. To get…
Rejected
SUPERINTENDENT REFUSES FINAL OFFER FOR BROWNSVILLE SCHOOL The pastor of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church had to give it one more try on Friday, Nov. 12. He knew that the Superintendent of Schools…