Category: News
Pensacola Five Flags Rotary installs 2015-2016 Officers and Board of Directors
Pensacola Five Flags Rotary Installs 2015-2016 Officers and Board of Directors Press Release: Pensacola Five Flags Rotary Club recently held its annual Change of Command…
Escambia County Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Program Returning
Press Release: The Escambia County Low-Cost Spay-Neuter program is returning, this time at the Pensacola Humane Society’s Barbara Grice Memorial Spay and Neuter Clinic. Beginning…
Fountain blames demise on local media and bloggers who ‘repeatedly crossed line and bullied public employees…’
Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Chief Operations Officer, Tamara Fountain, resigned this morning. She also sent a letter to the Pensacola City Council saying, “It has been…
COO Fountain resigns
Press Release: The City of Pensacola announced today that Tamara Fountain would step down as Chief Operations Officer in order to pursue other opportunities. During…
Choral Society looking for executive director
The Choral Society of Pensacola is now hiring an Executive Director. The Executive Director acts as a liaison between the organization and the press, sponsors,…
Hiring Fountain makes sense if…
From the perspective of education and work history, Mayor Hayward’s hiring of Tamara Fountain as his Communications Administrator, at a salary above the market, doesn’t…
Gaetz family shows how to correct a misstatement….quickly and with humor
From The News Service of Florida: Everyone knows that Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, likes to tell tales and that some of them might have a…
Podcast: Rep. Jolly talks about his U.S. Senate bid
Congressman David Jolly (R-Clearwater) is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated next year by GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio. We had him on…
PBR: Olson has his own cover-up
While his co-leader, COO Tamara Fountain, is battling to keep her job, City Administrator Eric Olson has some explaining to do about the Planning Department…
PNJ editorial focuses the resume issue back on Mayor Ashton Hayward
The daily newspaper has a strong editorial coming out tomorrow. It is available online now: “City blind to bigger picture.” The editorial board points out…
Resume-gate: How a snafu became a full blown crisis on the 7th floor of City Hall
On July 24, Mayor Ashton Hayward is interviewed by WEAR TV reporter Amber Southard about his restructuring of his administration and the qualifications of his…
Barry pre-files for second term
Press Release: Today, District 5, Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry announced his candidacy for re-election in November 2016, and filed paperwork with the Supervisor of…