Category: Pensacola
Draft minutes of Sept. 19 CRA meeting released
City Administrator Bill Reynolds,as per our public record request, sent the Independent News the draft minutes of the Sept. 19 board meeting of the City…
Occupy:City Tightens Up Security at City Hall
I drove by City Hall this morning and saw a handful of stalwart Occupiers huddled together under a few blue tarps at the corner of…
Chair fails to put minutes approval on CRA agenda
I was reviewing the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting of the City of Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency ( CRA112811mtg-1). The chairman, Councilwoman Megan Pratt, has failed…
Name for Pratt and Bray’s actions
The hiring and payment of an attorney without the approval of the board of the City of Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency is an ultra vires…
CRA Damage Control: CRA attorney reaches out to his ‘clients’
The person that Councilwoman Megan Pratt hired to be the attorney for the City of Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency has emailed all the CRA board…
Feeding Occupy Pensacola
OP Press Release: Everybody’s Kitchen Bus Joins Occupy Pensacola Pensacola, Fla. Nov. 26 2011 – Occupy Pensacola is now receiving support from Everybody’s Kitchen Bus…
Sarcasm – Key to Problem Solving
Smithsonian Magazine reports that studies show that sarcasm enhances problem solving. An inability to understand it can be an early warning sign of brain disease,…
What was the Sept. 19 CRA motion?
Though the Pensacola City Council and the Community Redevelopment Agency are, by their own rules, to follow Robert’s Rules of Order, rarely does it really…
Pratt interlocal agreement promotes Bray to CRA executive
The interlocal agreement that Councilwoman Megan Pratt and her attorney Doug Sale have created for the City of Pensacola’s CRA and the City of Pensacola…
Interlocal Disagreement, or How to Cook Thanksgiving Leftovers
The Community Redevelopment Agency of Pensacola will have more than leftover turkey waiting for it after Thanksgiving. There’s a whole can of worms on the…
Occupy’s Bedside
Gary Paull, Jr. was sleeping late this morning. As late as he could, anyway, on a cot outside Pensacola City Hall. Occupy Pensacola lost its…
Sam I Am The President
Pensacola City Council members voted for their new leadership on tiny, folded ballots this morning. Let’s throw their cards on the table. Councilman Sam Hall…
Hall elected Pensacola City Council prez
Sam Hall is the new Pensacola City Council president. Ronald Townsend is the vice-president. Official statement from Mayor Ashton Hayward, “I want to congratulate City…
Governance by Assumption
The Pensacola City Council and its Community Redevelopment Agency are legislative bodies. They act based on their votes. Chairpersons aren’t given executive powers. Those only…
Runaway CRA spending
The chairman of Community Redevelopment Agency for the City of Pensacola has run up legal bills with the help of the former CRA administrator without…
Haters
The FBI released its list of last year’s hate crimes. While the City of Pensacola did not report any hate crimes, Escambia County reported three….
Take Me to Your Leader
Before settling into the Thanksgiving holidays, the Pensacola City Council will select a new leadership to take it through the next year. Council members choose…
The Angry Parade
It’s becoming a regular thing, the protest parades down Palafox. A few weeks ago, the organic outcries were somewhat warm and fuzzy with a snare…
Officials Occupy Meeting, Briefly
Occupy Pensacola’s sit-down with city officials was a breezy affair. A chilly exchange lasting but a few moments. “What just happened here?†said Nicholas Alford,…
Pensacola downtown gets kudos from NY Times
The article is titled “Cola Buzz:” Pensacola is the first stop on what some disparagingly call “the Redneck Riviera.†But a few miles inland from…
