Category: Pensacola
Deadline for Absentee Ballots
Wednesday, Jan. 25 is the deadline to request your absentee ballot to be mailed for the Presidential primary election, Tuesday, Jan. 31. After Wednesday you…
Florida and Pensacola Unemployment rates continue to drop
Florida’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in December 2011 was 9.9 percent, the lowest since April 2009 when the rate was 9.7 percent. This represented 913,000…
Luncheon with Lawmakers, or Tallahassee Wish List
Earlier this month, state legislators from northwest Florida visited Pensacola for a bite to eat and a sit-down with the local business community. The 2012…
Oliver Goes On EDATE With Women
The salad was light and the tea was sweet, but conversation waded immediately into deeper waters: politics. That’s the way the League of Women Voters…
Dirty Smurfs
Escambia County officials have no interest in seeing a recycling center on a collection of remediated Superfund sites. They also don’t want to see any…
Wilson Robertson/Forrest Gibbs hiring – Top Scandal of 2011
The blog readers have spoken – with 863 votes cast. The top local scandal of 2011 was Escambia County Commissioner Wilson Robertson helping his supporter…
The Sam Hall Question
It seems Pensacola City Council President Sam Hall isn’t out of the woods yet when it comes to the free-speech debate he sparked when attempting…
Oil Spill Health Study Comes to Town
Following the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers of various stripes have been studying the disaster’s possible impacts. What did the spill…
New CRA Leadership
Pensacola’s Community Redevelopment Agency has a new chairman and vice chairman. The CRA board—comprised of the Pensacola City Council—chose its new leadership Jan. 9. Councilman…
Darn it, haters wrong again
Last summer, the haters had a field day. Finally–they thought with glee–the Studers were getting bashed by the daily newspaper. The PNJ and the CMPA…
Wake Up with Labor
In conjunction with statewide Awake the State rallies, local labor activists will gather tomorrow at state Representative Clay Ford’s local office. The Northwest Florida Federation…
Oliver says County never contacted about seats
George Hawthorne claimed last week on this blog that Escambia County had been contacted about the stadium seats that the CMPA bought but later sold…
LOL: Daily adopts our style of primary coverage
PNJ executive editor Dick Schneider tells his reader(s) in his Sunday edition that the daily paper will be the source for navigating the political “jungle.”…
For Sale: Pensacola Civic Center
Escambia County commissioners are looking to unload the Pensacola Civic Center. But Commission Chairman Wilson Robertson isn’t getting his hopes up. “Personally, I don’t think…
Buzz: CMPA scraps stadium seating, only gets $1500
The Community Maritime Park Associates had the Blue Wahoos pay over $200,000 to upgrade stadium seats at the Maritime Park. What happened to the seats…
Port as Offshore-Drilling Pitstop?
The Global 1200 is the latest gargantuan fixture up at Pensacola’s port. It’s a whopper of a vessel, with steel braids of cranes and infrastructure…
Video: Rev. Monk in his own words
The latest video on Rev. Monk, his confrontation with Sam Hall and his ministry:
ATU local reiterates request for Hall apology
From: Michael A. Lowery To: atu1395 ; jjerralds ; smyers ; ahayward ; pcwu ; mdeweese ; ljohnson ; bspencer ; rtownsend ; mpratt Cc:…
A More ‘Walkable, Bikeable’ Pensacola
An environmental group will implore the Pensacola City Council to implement policies that foster a more sustainable city. Sustainable Gulf Coast/Pensacola 350 will present A…
Video from Buddy’s: Shows Donson on the ground
We live in the age of smartphones that can record anything. These two videos were taken on Friday after Robert Donson was shot outside of…
