Former Pensacola Mayor John Fogg has withdrawn from the mayor’s race, according to the Supervisor of Elections office. The inside scoop is that fundraising hasn’t gone well for John and he didn’t…
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Wiggins skewered on Daily Show forum
Pensacola Mike Wiggins is getting compared to Jaws’ Mayor Vaughan by a blogger on the Daily Show forum. Read more.
City manager passes on BP surety bond
Pensacola City Manager Al Coby is not recommending that City Council require BP to put up a surety bond to cover any city expenses or environmental damages and remediation costs associated with…
City hires Hatch Mott
Mayor Mike Wiggins announced at the June 7, 4:30 p.m press conference at the EOC that the City has hired Hatch Mott MacDonald to monitor BP’s Bayou Chico boom containment operation. The…
Special EC County Commission Meeting
Press Release: The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners will hold a special meeting on Thursday, June 10 at 8:45 a.m. to handle issues relating to the oil spill. The meeting will…
Pensacola City Council proves helplessness
Remember the outrage over the BP boom cleaning operations in Bayou Chico. City Attorney Rusty Wells gave the Pensacola City Council memo on how they could require a security bond from BP…
City Attorney memo: City Council has some control over BP boom ops
Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells has sent the City Council a memo, “Pensacola-Based Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Cleanup Measures,” that while the City can’t stop BP from setting up its boom cleaning…
Fickled anti CMP arguments
If you read my prior post, particularly the litany of quotes from C.C. Elebash, it will become very apparent at how fickled his arguments have been: At one point, he wanted us…
Promise is DOA with Entrenched Eight
Sadly but as anticipated, eight Pensacola City Council members voted against Pensacola Promise yesterday….more accurately they voted to study it more, which is the much-used tactic by the City Council when it…
Buzz: Lewis to file against Hall
Although nothing has been posted on the Supervisor of Elections website, Christopher J. Lewis is rumored to be running against Councilman Sam Hall for the at-large council seat to be vacated by…
Campaign Trail: Pcola mayor race, Hayward raises $10K
Press Release: April 8, 2010 (Pensacola, FL) – In a remarkable show of campaign support, political newcomer Ashton Hayward on Thursday reported nearly $10,000 in campaign contributions raised in the first week…
MPDP Hoars out construction
Yesterday was the moment of truth for Scott Davison and his employer Maritime Park Development Partners. Could they deliver a letter of intent for a performance bond for the project? The answer…