Category: Pensacola

Mayor Ashton Hayward takes city hall to the west side where he is holding his second town-hall meeting with citizens living in the neighborhoods surrounding…

Mayor Hayward has issued the Request for Proposal to lease out the third floor of City Hall –which has long been vacant. According to the…

Press Release: Hayward Makes $800,000 in Budget Cuts, Spares Police and Fire Departments Fulfilling a campaign pledge to cut unnecessary spending at City Hall, Pensacola…

Press Release: A 10-year-old girl who claimed last month that a Spencer Bibbs Elementary School music teacher molested her has been charged with filing a…

In February 2003, City staff presented to the Pensacola City Council a reported titled “Profile of Pensacola: Demographic, Housing and Economic Characteristics.” The City Council…

The Pensacola City Council agenda for the May 9 Committee of the Whole has been posted and Council President Maren DeWeese has left off the…

The stadium is going up:

The future of the Port of Pensacola could be hotly debated this year. Mayor Ashton Hayward has appointed a Port Advisory Committee and City Council…

From William Young, III-Founder of Aquarium for Pensacola: Our economic strength and future lives, breathes and grows by virtue of our clean beaches and Gulf…

All three CMPA board members will be recommended for additional terms to regular council meeting for approval: Dick Baker, Collier Merrill and Juanita Scott. City…

Council members Jewel Cannada-Wynn, Ron Townsend and John Jerralds expressed their concerns about the proposed apartments for the Maritime Park. They asked for assurances that…

New school schooled the Old School in the Pensacola mayor’s race. It was Lumon May, LuTimothy May and the young African-Americans that delivered Hayward a…

The Pensacola City Council will have two new city council members: Brian Spencer and Sherrie Myers. Both ran aggressive door-to-door campaigns. Spencer beat incumbent Jewel…

Ashton Hayward has indeed won, 10,645-9,837, a hard-fought mayoral race over veteran incumbent Mike Wiggins. Both sides worked hard to get their messages out. Each…

In the Sunday, Oct. 31 edition of the News Journal. columnist Mark O’Brien accused mayoral candidate Ashton Hayward of schilling for the Levin firm: “Hayward’s…

Mike Wiggins is a nice guy. Nearly everyone, including the supporters of Ashton Hayward, will tell you that. He is the perfect mayor…for the old…

Here are the portions from the Oct. 21 interview with Ashton Hayward that we didn’t have space to include in the issue: IN: Do you…

The interviews with mayoral candidates Mike Wiggins and Ashton Hayward went on for over two hours. We didn’t have the space to include all of…

Yesterday I had two questions submitted from the public. Both were pointed and only for one candidate. One question was to be directed to Wiggins,…

Last night was the final political forum for the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. It was on the mayor’s race. WUWF-TV televised it, 1620AM…