CNBC recently ranked America’s top states for business in an annual special report. Florida tied with Tennessee for 18th —ten spots higher than last year’s ranking. Florida scored its highest marks for…
Category: News
Century: Did you know?
The town of Century has 12 paved roads…and five streets are getting resurfaced, in addition to seven that were just completed, according to NorthEscambia.com. The resurfacing project will cost the town just…
Accident in UWF lab
Buzz: Building 58 on the UWF Pensacola main campus is currently closed due to an incident in a chemistry lab. Two people were injured and are being transported to a local hospital….
Hayward wants to cut tax rate
During the 2010 campaign, Ashton Hayward announced that he wanted to rollback the millage rate if he was elected. Today, he has issued a press release stating that is what he will…
Disparity Contract signed
Mayor Ashton Hayward signed on July 6 the contract for the disparity study. MGT of America, Inc. will be paid $249,942, in eight installments. MGT has provided a work plan of tasks…
Why Marie Young abstained from vote on aide’s husband
Last week, Commissioner Marie Young abstained from voting on a motion to ask the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office to help enforce a cease and desist order against a burrow pit owned by…
BP knew Costner idea a bust
We know that much of what BP did last summer was all “ponies and balloons.” Publicity stunts to prop up stock prices and quell the masses. The Guardian reports that experts say…
INDaily online – July 12 edition
This online paper recaps the posts to inweekly.net and this blog for the past 24 hours. It also includes the top news headlines. INDaily is updated every morning at 7 a.m. You…
Nelson’s Me 2 Press Conference
While Sen. Marco Rubio was in Pensacola garnering attention while listening from local and state officials about the BP disaster, Florida’s senior U.S. Senator, Bill Nelson, was holding his own press conference…
County redistricting plan nearly complete
The Escambia County Commission and School Board left yesterday’s joint meeting with proposed redistricting maps that will see District 4 (Grover Robinson) and 5 (Kevin White) have the biggest increases, 1,133 and…
Buzz: Morgan gets petitions signed
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan has met the petition requirement for qualification to be on the 2012 ballot for Sheriff. There were 1,996 validated petitions needed to qualify. He is the first…
False GOP Narratives
Last fall, I had lunch with Peter Beinart at the Acme Oyster Bar in New Orleans. He is one of the brightest young journalists on the national scene. Peter is associate professor…
Chamber Names Senior VP for Economic Development
Press Release: Scott Luth has been named Senior Vice President for Economic Development for the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, Jim Hizer, chamber president/CEO, announced today. “Scott and I worked together…
Stafford offers city redistricting ideas (map)
The City of Pensacola has 51,923. The Ideal District is 7,418 people. Supervisor of Elections David Stafford has drawn up a possible new configuration of the city districts that spreads out the…
Evers Announces District Town Hall Tour, guns optional
Senator Greg Evers (R-Baker) today announced the dates and times for his Senate District 2 town hall meetings for the month of July, 2011. The purpose of these town hall meetings is…
Feel crazy? Call UF, Thank BP
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a University of Florida-led team more than $6.5 million to study the environmental and psychological effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on communities along…
INDaily- July 11 edition online
This online paper recaps the posts to inweekly.net and this blog for the past 24 hours. It also includes the top news headlines. INDaily is updated every morning at 7 a.m. You…
Bo’s Bridge is broken
St. Pete Times zeroes in on the Garcon Point Bridge, commonly known in other parts of Florida as “Bo’s Bridge” because for Florida House Speaker Bolley “Bo” Johnson pushed its funding through…
No surprises in Miller’s financials
Congressman Jeff Miller filed his 2010 financial disclosure report in May. Assets: $1.06 million-$1.69 million –mostly land in Santa Rosa County. He bought May 2010 25 acres on Molino Bridge Road in…
Port: ‘Belly Button’ Rainmaker
The Port of Pensacola has its supporters for it remaining an industrial port. Both here in Pensacola and at the state level. On June 21, the Pensacola City Council sat through a…