Category: Pensacola

The other bit of news that I’m hearing through the grapevine is that BP will be expanding its operations at Bayou Chico and moving more…

To get elected Mayor of Pensacola, Mike Wiggins and Ashton Hayward will need between 10,000 to 15,000 votes, based on the voter turnout over the…

Charles Bare, who received 1,763 (13.6 percent) votes in Tuesday’s primary, has issued a statement supporting Mayor Mike Wiggins as Pensacola’s first strong mayor. In…

Conventional political wisdom says that an incumbent must have 45 percent of the primary vote to win a run-off. If this holds true, then Mike…

Last night proved to be a closely fought election for many local seats. The IN talked with several candidates and their campaign heads after last…

At the end of business (which is 5 p.m. for everyone but the Tick Tock Gang) yesterday, Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells sent an apology…

We keep hearing from Marty Donovan, Byron Keesler and C.C. Elebash that people do not want the maritime park and its stadium. Yet they never…

Jamie Page attended yesterday’s press conference held by the Donovan/Nobles gang where they essentially cried that they shouldn’t be penalized for not knowing how to…

City Manager Al Coby tells IN his decision not to accept a petition to stop the construction of stadium for the Community Maritime Park is…

Once again operating under his own rules, realtor Marty Donovan will have an attorney deliver 3,916 petitions on Monday morning August 23 at 8:15 to…

When the first proposal for the Trillium property across from Pensacola City Hall went to referendum what did then-Councilman Marty Donovan say: “The citizens earned…

While researching another topic I came across what then-Councilman Marty Donovan said when Adm. Jack Fetterman first presented the maritime museum (the one Marty now…

Marty Donovan and his naysayers had told city staff that they would deliver their petitions to Pensacola City Hall at 8:30 p.m. I went to…

During tonight’s City Council meeting, Mayor Mike Wiggins recommended a motion to discipline City Attorney Rusty Wells by fining him three days pay for inappropriate…

[JP-Facebook-Like] The News Journal has done its research and weighed in on the Wells’ email issue. “No doubt some will say it’s too harsh to…

What does the employee manual say about computer usage, emails and internet ( page 23): Computer Usage City owned computers are used throughout the organization…

This morning one odd thing about the City Council and the Wells Debacle hit me. Why didn’t Mayor Wiggins know about the emails prior to…

As of the end of the day on Aug. 15, 2,964 had voted in the primaries. In 2008, 1,949 voted in the first week. Here…

According to Escambia Supervisor of Elections David Stafford,  2,105 people in the county have voted since Monday (as of the end of yesterday). There were…