Category: Politics
Gulf Coast African-American Chamber down to one member?
Ok, let’s just say it. There is no Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce. There is a Florida corporation, but it appears to only have…
oh, was that mic on?
RAW VIDEO: President Obama was caught on a live mic yesterday, telling Russia’s President Medvedev (and Vladimir Putin) that after the election, he will have…
Too many can’t afford to rent
My latest column for Florida Voices: Too Many Floridians Cant Afford To Rent | Rick Outzen | Florida Voices Too Many Floridians Cant Afford To Rent | Rick…
State of the Black Chamber
What is the Gulf Coast African American Chamber of Commerce? What does it do? Who does it? These were some of the questions explored during…
Viewpoint: Bare Knuckle Politics Leaves No-Fault Consumers Defenseless
Guest Viewpoint from Robert Heath: Suppose that you are stopped at an intersection, minding your own business, when you are suddenly hit from behind by…
Dolphins in Bayou Texar
It’s not something you see everyday. Pensacola City Councilman Larry B. Johnson had never seen it before. “I’ve lived on Bayou Texar since 1989,†the…
Pensacola Beach traffic up
Bob Sykes Bridge had a banner weekend – up 5,023 cars over last year and up 10,441 over 2010: 2010 Fri 3/26 13,907 Sat 3/27…
US Airways connects Pcola w/DC
TEMPE, Ariz., March 25, 2012 – Today US Airways launched daily, nonstop service from Pensacola, Fla. to Reagan National Airport. Customers in Pensacola will have…
New Campaign Finance Website Launched
The Federal Election Commission unveiled a redesigned website portal today to streamline the retrieval of campaign finance disclosure information. The disclosure portal provides a single point of…
An Evening of Opportunity
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority will present a free “how to do business†event Thursday, March 29. The meeting will be at the Sanders Beach-Corinne Jones…
Hawthorne’s City Council Address
After allowing him his few minutes of public comment at the microphone, the Pensacola City Council continued to the next speaker without comment. Gulf Coast…
Sen. Gaetz: 2012 Legislative Session Report
Balanced budget, no tax increases The most encouraging news to come out of the 2012 session of the Legislature is that, unlike other large states,…
Occupying the Court
Two people who were arrested outside Pensacola City Hall last year will be heading to court soon. Dr. Melody Castro and Rev. David Burden were…
Meeting Meltdown
Officials from the city of Pensacola, Escambia County and Gulf Breeze stepped into a room yesterday to discuss natural gas franchise rights. It did not…
Hawthorne: An Olive Branch or Baseball Bat?
He knows he’s going to speak before the Pensacola City Council tomorrow. He’s just not sure exactly what he’ll say. “I have an olive branch…
Messer’s Tired of Dancing
Pensacola City Attorney Jim Messer’s trigger finger is getting itchy. Tiring of what he once referred to as a “dance,†the attorney asked the Pensacola…
The Dead End Debate
Empty seats at yesterday’s Pensacola City Council Committee of the Whole meeting were few and far between. Most of them were filled with someone there…
Jerralds: Hawthorne is ‘pissing in the wind’ and ‘full of shenanigans’
Despite a request by Gulf Coast African American Chamber of Commerce Chairman George Hawthorne, the Pensacola City Council did not address Councilman John Jerralds’ recent…
Hawthorne makes emergency request to be added to City Council agenda
A letter from George Hawthorne regarding Councilman John Jerrald’s meeting on Hawthorne’s Gulf Coast African-American Chamber of Commerce: March 18, 2012 Honorable Sam Hall City…
Jerralds vs. Hawthorne and the Battle Over the GCAACC
By the time Pensacola City Councilman John Jerralds called the police, George Hawthorne had summed up the Friday afternoon meeting as “odd†and “ludicrous.†“George,…
