Here is an editorial that appeared in alt-weekly The Arkansas Times on 6/8/06 about Little Rock and its weak mayor system. Much of it applies to Pensacola Our minor mayor Published 6/8/2006…
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Little Rock votes for strong Mayor
Little Rock voters on Tuesday approved measures making the mayor’s job full time and granting him veto power over the city’s Board of Directors. The vote settles years of debate over whether…
Close public libraries
Today’s Pensacola News Journal reports that the City of Pensacola, who runs the public library system for Escambia County, is considering further cuts ($972,000) to the library budget. The cuts would shutdown…
Another bad indicator for Escambia County
Last year the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce issued its Prosperity Pensacola report that had several indicators by which we could benchmark the community’s progress. One indicator was Births to Teen…
Pensacola misses most literate list
No surprise here. Central Connecticut State University compiles the list. A total score is tallied for each city across six different literacy categories: Booksellers; Educational attainment; Internet Resources; Library Resources; Newspaper Circulation;…
FOX News caught changing Wikipedia
On the website – Geek are Sexy – Brian Boyko writes on an news story that is tearing through the blogosphere – Fox News has been changing entries on the Wikipedia website…
What is the legislature thinking on insurance
Does big insurance control the state legislature? First we have special session to deal with property insurance that in the end did nothing. Insurance companies still raised their rates and cancelled policies….
IN disappears from Blanchard Judicial Center
We have had several people who work at the Blanchard Judicial Center call to tell us our papers have vanished from the racks on the first and second floors. They have been…
Pensacola Sam’s Warehouse gets new paint job
…that’s how our local economic news compares to the surrounding counties. Notice any difference? Who is at the helm of our economy? When will county and city officials get engaged? The issue…
New Mobile, Ala steel plant may increase revenue $3.7 million
Mobile Press Register reports: Southwest Alabama cities and counties can expect about $3.7 million a year in extra tax revenue from the ThyssenKrupp steel mill in northern Mobile County, according to a…
Destin continues to grow
The Daily News reports that more businesses are opening in Grand Boulevard in the Destin/Sandestin area. The first store at the Howard Group’s 52-acre Grand Boulevard development opened its doors in March….
Ax the Homestead Tax files PAC organization papers
Press Release: The citizens’ constitutional petition initiative to amend Florida’s constitution by replacing the current property tax system with a sales tax-based system took another step forward when Ax the Homestead Tax.com…
Sen. Martinez in town
– and Commissioner Mike Whitehead hasn’t challenged him to a fight. Sen. Martinez tours JACC U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) was in Pensacola in the early morning hours of Monday 13 August…
County land sale buzz
From a concerned citizen: Can you look into why the county is selling what they call surplus land at the Equestrian Center? The land in question is 18 acres of the Equestrian…
Nothing gets done
The county salary database has now been used over 22,000 times. As much as the county leaders want to complain about how unfair it was for the IN to publish the salaries,…
Rove resigns
Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August. Mumbles something about a rats leaving a sinking ship. No word about whether he…
Escambia County population growth slows
The New York Times did an this week on how the demographics are changing for counties around the country – Minorities Now Form Majority in One-Third of Most-Populous Counties. Escambia County has…
Gannett denies sale
Yesterday the IN Daily News reported (Gannett Selling?)on buzz on the Wall Street Journal that Gannett (owner of the Pensacola News Journal, Bella, Pelican, Home & Garden, Gosport, et al) is preparing…
Presidential polls
The Kitchens Group – Florida political consulting, marketing and polling firm – has released a Florida poll showing party frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are virtually tied at about 41-40, assuming…
Guiliani names local chairman
GOP presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani has named Kristi Emmons his campaign chairman for Escambia County. Greg Evers was named the Santa Rosa County chair earlier this summer. It appears all the local…