Fear reigns in C.C. Elebash’s opinion in the PNJ (Cancel the baseball stadium). The viewpoint is filled with coulds, maybes and unsubstantiated conclusions – very similar to the Save Our City campaign…
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City fails disparity test
The draft of the MGT Study of the City of Pensacola’s Procurement and Small Business Enterprise (SBE) Program is close to being released. We received a copy of the draft and the…
Maren DeWeese is upset!
Council member Maren DeWeese is upset with Commmunity Director Thaddeus Cohen’s decision to not fund neighborhood projects tfor which neighborhood associations raised money in anticipation of matching funds from the city. According…
Library scramble
Next week the Pensacola City Council will consider issuing a RFP for the downtown library that is currently proposed to be built on the site of the old Spring St. fire station….
You can be a movie star
Got this email from Carol Kahn Parker: Seeking extras for THE NEW YEAR, an independent film being shot in the Pensacola! It is a low, low budget film that is considered a…
CMPA board positions
Mayor Mike Wiggins and Council member Megan Pratt have been nominated to fill John Fogg’s seat on the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees. Wiggins has told me that he doesn’t…
Spooneybarger makes comeback
Pressbox.com has an article on the Pensacola native Tommy Spooneybarger’s comeback after two Tommy John surgeries. Spooneybarger pitched professionally for the first time since 2005. He played last summer for Single-A Aberdeen….
Buzz: Coby no longer interim
Mayor Mike Wiggins stunned yesterday’s crowd at the city council meeting when he referred to Al Coby as the city manager. “Al agreed to stay on, not as interim city manager –…
Council committee assignments
FINANCE COMMITTEE Jewel Cannada-Wynn, Chair Mike Wiggins, Vice Chair Sam Hall John Jerralds Ronald Townsend P.C. Wu NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES Sam Hall, Chair Maren DeWeese, Vice Chair Jewel Cannada-Wynn Larry B. Johnson Megan…
Hard hiring freeze in school system
This memo has been sent out to school administration and principals: TO: ALL PRINCIPALS AND DEPARTMENT HEADS FROM: DR. ALAN SCOTT, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT KEITH LEONARD, DIRECTOR JERRY CAINE, MANAGER DATE: January 12,…
Oops, no public forum
The Pensacola City Council held two council meetings yesterday. One to honor the outgoing council and to ratify all their actions over the past two years; the other to swear in the…
Sacred Heart hurt by budget cuts, too
Mike Burke, Director of Marketing & Public Relations at Sacred Heart Health System says. “If the proposed budget cuts go through, Sacred Heart’s reimbursement would be cut by 4 percent or another…
No more preaching in Santa Rosa schools
We wrote about this suit last September. Press Release: Federal Judge Orders Santa Rosa School District to Discontinue Religious Advancement United States District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers granted a preliminary injunction…
State budget cuts hurt Baptist Hospital
The special session has come up with a budget that will reduce Medicaid reimbursement to area hospitals. We’ve asked both Baptist and Sacred Heart how they will be impacted. Kerry Vermillion, chief…
Old City Council leaves office
Today, 52 years of government experience left the Pensacola City Council. Everyone was there to honor the old guard and welcome the new council members. Everyone, except Marty Donovan, who Mayor Fogg…
IN goes to Obama Inauguration
Reporter Sean Boone and Production Manager Joani Delezen will be reporting from Washington, D.C. on Barack Obama’s Inauguration. We received tickets from Congressman Jeff Miller.
Economic Development update
From Charles Wood, Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce: * Pensacola Unemployment 7th Lowest in State – For the month of November, Pensacola’s unemployment rate was 6.7%, that means out of 23…
Pensacola Wish List
Councilman Sam Hall passed on this wish list that Al Coby sent to the Florida League of Cities and to Miller and Nelson: Curbside Recycling (Acquisition of Containers) $1,000,000 CMP (Remediation/Sitework/Utilities/Landscaping) $18,712,824…
Traffic tickets go up in lean times
When government revenues dry up, police write more speeding tickets, according to the Charlotte Observer. After analyzing 14 years of data, two economists found that for every 1 percent drop in government…
No Obama wish list here
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes that Broward County has submitted its wish list for the Obama Economic Stimulus package to its Congressional delegation. How came we heard nothing from our Escambia and…