Today Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward, joined by Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan and Councilmen John Jerralds and Brian Spencer, announced the demolition of the old Blount Junior High School that has been…
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Florida Tax Watch projects 150,000 more jobs
Florida Tax Watch report the state’s employment situation has looked brighter over the last twelve months (from June 2010 to June 2011) than any previous period since the Great Recession officially ended…
Additional request from Deweese: details on mayor’s office budget
Council President Maren Deweese sent an additional request to City Finance Director Dick Barker on Saturday morning, August 20: Follow up to Council’s request for the detailed breakdown of the Mayor’s proposed…
DOJ investigating early BP spill estimates
Early in the BP oil disaster in 2010, I wrote about how my sources were telling me that the BP disaster was at a much larger scale than the 1,000 barrels a…
Hayward: ‘Tear down this school’
Press Release: Hayward Announces Plan to Demolish Old School – Sheriff Cites ‘Positive Change’ for Community – Fulfilling a campaign promise to crack down on blight and improve neighborhoods, Pensacola Mayor Ashton…
GCCF releases report on first year
Press Release: Today, Kenneth R. Feinberg, Administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, released an executive summary looking back at its first year of operation with an update on claims statistics, successes…
Gulf Power rate hike goes before board today
The Public Service Commission will consider today approving Gulf Power Co.’s interim rate hike request of $38.5 million. The request is part of a $93.5 million permanent rate hike requested in July…
Poll confirms Hayward popularity
Press release: According to a recent study conducted by Open Market Research, nearly 62% of likely voters have a favorable opinion of the manner in which Mayor Ashton Hayward is managing the…
Former City official is new Destin City manager
By a unanimous vote last night, the Destin City Council selected Maryann Ustick – former City of Pensacola assistant city manager and current acting city manager in North Las Vegas – to…
Mayor Hayward attacks blight
Mayor Ashton Hayward wants to attack one of the biggest blights in Pensacola – W.A. Blount Junior High School. The building, which was in built in 1930, has been closed nearly 30…
Pratt focuses on organizational chart, programs and policies
True to her analytical background, Council member Megan Pratt focused her city budget inquiries on the city’s organizational chart, programs and policies. They don’t appear to involve any changes in the dollars…
Human remains found, search for clues begun
Escambia deputies have launched an investigation after the discovery of human remains on Sunday afternoon. On August 21, at around 12:24 p.m., deputies were called to the Marcus Pointe Apartments, located at…
UWF welcomes 12,021 students
UWF meets goal of 12K students on campus a year ahead of schedule. – Press Release: The University of West Florida (UWF) welcomed to campus 12,021 students today, a full year ahead…
When all the streets are bad(lands)
Press release: The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, along with several other agencies, will conduct an “Operation Clean Sweep†event on Thursday, August 25, 2011 to clean up the Miller and Baars Street…
Myers proposes over $2 million in cuts, rollback to 2009 levels
Council member Sherri Myers has proposed $2.05 million in cuts to the FY 2012 City of Pensacola budget, according to an email that she sent today to City Finance Director Dick Barker….
This day in blog history
A year ago, Marty Donovan and the Tick Tock Gang were looking for somebody to take their anti-Maritime Park Petitions: File under “It never endsâ€. In 2008, Land Capital & Scott Davison…
Why did PNJ place pressure on 3rd graders?
Today’s front-page headline of the Pensacola News Journal states the third graders face “crunch time” because this is the first year that these eight and nine year olds will have to take…
Buzz: Gaddafi dead?
Per Twitter: “Mu’amar Gaddafi, leader of Libya for 42 years, has been shot DEAD in vicinity of Rixos Hotel.” There is no confirmation on any of the news sites.
Amazing insights into Libya battles
I’ve been following the rebel battles in Tripoli via Al Jazzera and Twitter. Al Jazzera has a live blog from its correspondents. Power and communications lines have been cut by government forces,…
Go, Judy, go
Press Release: UWF President appointed to NCAA Division II Presidents Council – University of West Florida (UWF) President Judith A. Bense has been elected as the Region 2 representative of the National…