Category: Pensacola
DIB on MURAC Report
The Downtown Improvement Board is embarking on a search for a new permanent executive director. When the board began discussing the recently released report from…
Councilman Pays for Party
Gallery Night will run until midnight. At least this month. During this morning’s Downtown Improvement Board meeting, Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer ponied up $2,500…
John Jerralds uses megaphone to get votes for Hugh King and himself
City Councilman John Jeralds has parked his jeep at Macedonia Baptist Church and is using a megaphone to shout at voters. He is soliciting votes…
DIB to Discuss Gallery Night, MURAC
The Downtown Improvement Board may be having some meaty conversation during its meeting tomorrow morning. The agenda includes a discussion on Gallery Night logistics, as…
Third Party Mystery, or Larkin’s Leftover Leak
Last week, Rob Larkin, Esq., a Tallahassee attorney handling the contract negotiations between the city of Pensacola and local police union, said a city councilman…
City Council to Look at Libraries
The Pensacola City Council has scheduled a Special Committee of the Whole meeting. The subject of the meeting is the West Florida Public Library’s budget…
MURAC’s Final Plan
The Mayor’s Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee has been at work since February. Today it approved its final report, a document chock-full of recommendations concerning downtown…
Treading Uncharted Waters
By Jeremy Morrison… Members of the Pensacola City Council have some questions following the local police union’s request to investigate Mayor Ashton Hayward following an…
Final Urban Advisory Committee Meeting
The Mayor’s Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee will hold its final meeting tomorrow. Since February, the group has met in an effort to draw up a…
Mayor’s Gallery Night Statement
The mayor issued the following statement today, following the local police union’s request last week that the Pensacola City Council investigate him for misuse of…
Hayward pushes EDATE renewal
On Nov. 6, Pensacola voters will be asked to renew the Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemption. Mayor Ashton Hayward has sent out this viewpoint…
No Statement from Mayor on FOP’s Accusations
A day after the local police union requested that the Pensacola City Council investigate Mayor Ashton Hayward for misusing his office to intimidate officers, a…
Readers tell what happened at Gallery Night
We asked readers for their takes on how the Pensacola Police Department handled the re-opening of Palafox at 9 p.m. at the end of the…
Peacock Disputes FOP’s Statement
Downtown Improvement Board member John Peacock is disputing the local police union’s version of a Gallery Night incident it brought before the Pensacola City Council…
City Explores Charter School
Should the city of Pensacola start a charter school? It’s a question the Pensacola City Council may decide to start exploring tonight. “It’s really saying,…
Pensacola Veterans Memorial Park Foundation shows no receivable or income from VFW Post
In 2004, the Vietnam Veterans Wall South Foundation filed a report with the state to change its name to Pensacola Veterans Memorial Park Foundation (Wallnamechange)….
Exclusive: Military feared Wall South funds would be diverted to a drinking hooch. They were right
The former treasurer of the Wall South Foundation says that Commander of the Defense Commissary Agency that raised half million dollars for the ongoing maintenance…
Mack, Nelson Rally Local Supporters
Both candidates for Florida’s U.S. Senate race made their way to Pensacola this week en route to Election Day. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) started off…
City Council’s Back
After a lengthy break due to technical difficulties at city hall, the Pensacola City Council will meet today for its Committee of the Whole. The…
Crime, Code Enforcement and District 6
By Shelby Smithey… Crime and code ordinances were hot topics at Mayor Ashton Hayward’s “Taking City Hall to the Citizens†town hall meeting last night…
