Category: News
Looks like May, Robertson and Barry will be elected to Escambia County Commission
The leads that Wilson Robertson, Lumon May and Steve Barry have are nearly insurmountable, according to Commissioner Grover Robinson who is at Supervisor David Stafford’s…
Lumon May has huge margin out of early voting
Lumon May 9.272; Tiffany Washington 2573; Hugh King 858; and Dooley Johnson 203
Doing political commentary on WCOA tonight
In the WCOA studio with Don Parker and Brian Newkirk, we will start broadcasting election coverage at 7 p.m. We will have ABC coverage on…
DIB on MURAC Report
The Downtown Improvement Board is embarking on a search for a new permanent executive director. When the board began discussing the recently released report from…
Reports From the Polls
Standing outside Precinct 34 earlier today, Phil Hall, an observer with Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), said everything was going well. There had been an issue…
Councilman Pays for Party
Gallery Night will run until midnight. At least this month. During this morning’s Downtown Improvement Board meeting, Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer ponied up $2,500…
State Education Board votes to keep A.A. Dixon open
At today’s State Board of Education meeting in Boca Raton, the board unanimously voted to grant the appeal of termination by A. A. Dixon Charter…
Poll worker almost keeps wife of candidate from voting
Early today, a poll worker at Precinct 56, Escambia County Environmental/Health offices by Legion Field, was aggressively questioning the signatures of African-American voters. The wife…
Is Romney GOTV more high tech than Obama
A reader called to say that the Romney Get Out The Vote (GOTV) effort in Escambia County is more sophisticated than what observers are seeing…
John Jerralds uses megaphone to get votes for Hugh King and himself
City Councilman John Jeralds has parked his jeep at Macedonia Baptist Church and is using a megaphone to shout at voters. He is soliciting votes…
Gulf Breeze, Fla voting disaster
The Santa Rosa County precinct 22 in the Gulf Breeze Recreation Center is a voting disaster. We have a reporter that the precinct did not…
UWF Downtown Lecture looks at security and transparency in digital age
By Shelby Smithey… Jocelyn Evans, chair of the University of West Florida Department of Government, will discuss how technological advances and terrorist attacks have affected…
And Touart may have tried to get Valentino back
In 2010, Commissioner Gene Valentino was indicted for soliciting campaign funds from his commissioner’s office. His supporters believed that his opponent in the GOP primary,…
BTW: Valentino was part of 2007 sting operation to catch Touart
Commissioner Gene Valentino blamed the media for forcing George Touart out as the county administrator. The commissioner has conveniently forgotten that he was part of…
There is still a lot of voting to be done today
In 2008, 154,864 votes were cast in Escambia County in the presidential race. John McCain got 59 percent of them; Obama 40 percent. During the…
Tell us what you see at the polls
Voting will be heavy today. In Gulf Breeze at the South Santa Rosa Recreation Center, over 150 voters were in line this morning at 7….
County Names New Fire Chief
On Friday, November 2, 2012, Acting County Administrator Larry M. Newsom appointed Patrick T. Grace to serve as the new Escambia County Fire Chief. Grace…
The facts about 2007 ouster of George Touart
History tends to be rewritten by politicians to fit their current agendas. What really happened in August and September of 2007 when George Touart stepped…
DIB to Discuss Gallery Night, MURAC
The Downtown Improvement Board may be having some meaty conversation during its meeting tomorrow morning. The agenda includes a discussion on Gallery Night logistics, as…
Third Party Mystery, or Larkin’s Leftover Leak
Last week, Rob Larkin, Esq., a Tallahassee attorney handling the contract negotiations between the city of Pensacola and local police union, said a city councilman…
