The average pay for a department head or director in both Escambia County and the City of Pensacola is over $90,000. Question: How many department head and company managers in the local…
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Slowdown tax reform
The state legislature acts like the property tax and property insurance problems happened unexpectedly overnight. State economists were pointing out the coming train wreck early last year. However, it was an election…
Hot Seat: Gene Valentino
My IN Your Face TV interview with Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino: PART 1 PART 2 The IN media empire continues to grow.
Q100 – Friday morning
Filling in for John Stuart from 6 to 9 a.m. Listen in. Should be fun.
Van Camp files
Escambia County Jeff Van Camp has filed for Santa Rosa County sheriff. The election is next year. Van Camp will do very well in south Santa Rosa County. He will not have…
Talking Points
From my WUWF TV show – IN Your Face TV. Topics: Access Escambia, Benny Washington, City Sanitation, Private Landfills and Operation Brownsville Click here to view
Guantanamo as seen by Aussie reporter
Karen Greenberg of the Australian paper “The Age” took part in U.S. tour of the Guantanamo prison. She reveals in this artilce that the US military has created its own newspeak about…
Stem cell research – next Tallahassee battle?
This is your science lesson for the day: The Miami Herald reports that GOP lawmakers attended a private lecture by a Utah professor on stem cell research: As many as 25 House…
County pay raises
How was the $3.477 million pay raise implemented for Escambia County workers? General workers, levels A & B: Â Â Â $2,440,701.10 (70% total pay increase) Immediate supervisors, level C:Â Â $747,915.70 (22%) Senior managers,…
Miller gets Golden Mouse
…couldn’t resist the headline. The Web site of U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL-01) was honored recently by the Congressional Management Foundation, for being one of the best in Congress. The site, www.house.gov/jeffmiller,…
House leaders tell school district to raise taxes…
While Gov. Crist and Republican lawmakers are beating their chests proclaiming property taxes should be cut, House Republican leaders are telling school districts to raise their tax rates. From the Miami Herald:…
Prison break star dines at Global Grill
Wentworth Miller, co-star of Fox TV series “Prison Break”, dined at Global Grill last night with two friends. All wore hats to disguise themselves and sat in the back area of the…
City rules for county neighborhoods
The daily newspaper has an article on attempt in Scenic Hills subdivision to create an Enhanced Neighborhood Protection zone whereby they can: Restrict any outbuildings or sheds to not be visible from…
Shot or Not
From the Orlando Weekly: No one will argue cervical cancer isn’t deadly. The disease, which killed 30 percent of the 11,000 U.S. women it affected last year, ranks as one of the…
More seats for Dierks Bentley
GREAT NEW SEATS JUST RELEASED OFF STAGE LEFT AND STAGE RIGHT. Modern Day Drifter Dierks Bentley will team up with special guest Eric Church will bring his Locked and Loaded Tour to…
Friends response to CRA debate
Friends of the Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park The Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees continues to make great strides on the waterfront park that we all worked so hard…