Category: Politics
CMPA meeting highlights (video)
Two interesting exchanges from the CMPA board meeting last week. The first is board member Grace McCaffery questioning whether Board member Katie White should abstain…
Unanswered MPDP questions
CMPA attorney Ed Fleming has one month to complete his investigation into the contract performance and contract formation of Maritime Park Development Partners, the developer…
MPDP: “Betrayal and Disappointment”
The one person that has been consistently mentioned in both the Request for Qualification and Request for Proposal is Cynthia Griffith, Saxet Realty. Her role…
Another problem for MPDP, Davison
The development agreement between CMPA and MPDP has an assignment clause: “Article XVIII, Section 18.01 Assignments. The Developer shall have not have the right to…
MPDP partner’s Brass Real Estate lost project in Corpus Christi
Who is Rick Rodriguez and Brass/Magi? The daily newspaper in Corpus Christi, TX ran this article. The article (Oct 2009) says Rodriguez was new to…
Davison surprised by Buckley comments
PNJ reports MPDP VP Scott Davison gave it a letter from Michael Buckley of Halcyon, LTD that Davison says gave him permission to include Buckley…
No death penalty for Coldiron or Stallworth
PRESS RELEASE: The Office of the State Attorney announced today that it will no longer seek the death penalty for Wayne Thomas Coldiron or Donnie…
Thomas must give back grant funds
The Escambia County School Board will discuss at its Dec. 14 regular meeting the audit of the Restorative Justice Grant, the $945,000 three-year grant that…
Nodine Trial: Victim’s sister got a text
The murder trial of Steve Nodine, former Mobile County Commissioner and frequent VIP visitor to Pensacola, got off with a bang yesterday. Susan Bloodworth, the…
Ford to head House Energy and Utilities Subcommittee
Press Release: This afternoon Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon announced the chairmanships for the Subcommittees for the 2011 Legislative Session. State Representative Clay Ford, District…
Santa Rosa FCAT GPA 3.67
Milton High jumped from a D to A school based on FCAT scores. Jay & Gulf Breeze maintained their A’s. Central maintained its B. Pace…
Escambia County has slight in high school FCAT grades, thanks to Northview
Escambia County high school FCAT grades dropped at Escambia High (from C to D) and Pine Forest (from C to D). Northview High jumped from…
Niceville High exchange student sent home
As a joke international exchange student Jawdat “J.D.†Kasab wrote “Death to America†on a board inside a Niceville High School classroom. He not only…
Gulf Power uses ECUA water
Press Release: Gulf Power using millions of gallons of reclaimed water from ECUA Millions of gallons of reclaimed water now are flowing from ECUA to…
MPDP Out of Compliance with EBO
Promises Kept or Broken – Part IV The problems with the Maritime Park’s EBO Agreement program and the failure to live up to the Covenant…
EBO Minutes: Fishing expedition by Fleming
EBO Minutes: Fishing expedition by Fleming Posted on December 2, 2010 The Equal Business Opportunity Committee of the Community Maritime Park Associates, Inc. was called…
MPDP: Davison’s words don’t matter
Promises: kept or broken? — Part 3 Maritime Park Development Partners responded in a letter to the CMPA EBO Committee on Oct. 7 to the…
2010 IN Turkey Awards
On Thanksgiving Day, the Winners & Losers staff sat around on their couches with bloated bellies and texted in their suggestions for the 2010 IN…
Another EBO complaint
Tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. the CMPA’s EBO Committee will hear a report from the EBO Compliance Officer Lou Ray on a complaint by GB Green…
MPDP battles EBO complaint
Promises: kept or broken? — Part 2 The man who drafted the Equal Business Opportunity agreement between Community Maritime Park Associates and Maritime Park Development…
