Hulk Hogan, the 12-time world heavyweight champion wrestler, and the crew for his VH1 show “Hogan Knows Best” invaded Panama City Beach on Wednesday. The Hulkster navigated the maze Wednesday at Coconut…
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Lucy Morgan on Double Dippers
Here is my interview with Lucy Morgan, political reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, on her investigative report on double dipping elected officials. Here is the download: Morgan.mp3. You will need iTunes…
Newsweek spotlights Pensacola couple
From Newsweek.com: The Acevedos’ story begins in 2005 when Angie, a systems specialist, and her husband Raul, a Navy chief petty officer, purchased a home in Pensacola, Fla. The couple was careful…
Real issues vs. false ones
The concern of Councilman Marty Donovan over city hall security is another distraction from real issues. It also proves my theory that government always finds money for what it wants. At the…
Notes: Council Committee of the Whole
March 24 Pensacola City Council Committee of the Whole notes: In the end, the Committee of the Whole approved the budget for the Charter Review Commission, but earlier in the afternoon the…
Double dip reporter on radio
I will have Lucy Morgan, former Tallahassee bureau chief and political writer for the St. Petersburg Times on IN Your Head Radio today from 1-2 p.m. on NewsRadio 1620. Lucy is reported…
Our Officer School opens in Newport
From the Newport paper: Newport welcomes return of Navy’s Officer Candidate School 01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, March 23, 2008 Now that it has returned to its birthplace at Naval Station Newport,…
Miller’s wish list
Congressman Jeff Miller lists his funding requests that he has submitted to the House Appropriations Committee on his website. Okaloosa County does very well – $95.535 million with $74.45 million for Eglin…
Local double dippers
The St. Pete Times has reported that a growing number of elected officials are quietly taking advantage of a loophole carved into the state retirement law a few years ago that allows…
PNJ website navigation
I think I figured out how to find the local news on the new pnj.com. Try clicking on News in the top navigation bar, then local. Not sure if this is all…
IN keeps rolling
The IN is on an unprecedented roll right now. Ad revenues are still up 48% over last year – we will have the best first quarter in the nine-year history of the…
Why Jewel gave EWB zero
Pensacola City Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn said Friday she expected more from E.W. Bullock Associates officials in their presentation for the Energy Services of Pensacola contract, especially since the agency had done ESP’s…
Widow on radio again
Today, I am on the road. At News Radio 1620, we will replay my interviews with Tania Julin, one of a group of widows who is suing Chiquita Brand for supporting the…
Feedback
How do you like our coverage of the city council and county commission meetings? We are going in a different direction than Gannett and the PNJ. They have the sizzle with their…
Notes: BCC 3.20
Commissioner salaries were still on the agenda: Board of County Commissioners Regular Meeting 20 March 2008 1. Call to order at 5:32 p.m. 2. Invocation – Commissioner Whitehead. 3. Pledge of Allegiance…
Notes: Agenda Review 3.20
Board of County Commissioners Regular Meeting Morning Agenda Review Called to order at 9:03 a.m. All County Commissioners were present except for Commissioner Marie Young. Young arrived at 9:30 a.m. Items to…
ECUA blocking curbside recycling
Everything with Emerald Coast Utility Authority is a negotiation. Cleaning up the water that it supplied the to Gulf Breeze in the 1990s; the IP pipeline to clean up Perdido Bay; Relocation…
Cannada-Wynn gave EW Bullock zero
At last week’s Pensacola City Council meeting, Leroy Boyd of Movement for Change and others made a big deal about E.W. Bullock being awarded the marketing contract for Energy Services of Pensacola…
pnj.com
The new pnj.com website is locking up my Foxfire browser. Understand my computer isn’t the latest model and I do have a number of spam blockers and filters that stop macros. But…
Notes: Joint City-County meeting 3.18
Joint Meeting of the Escambia County Board of Commissioners and the Pensacola City Council 18 March 2008 Hagler Mason Conference Room, City Hall Note: This meeting was primarily for discussion between the…