Santa Rosa teachers were mailed pink slips last week as Santa Rosa County School District tries to cope with shrinking budget. The teachers without tenure are being told that their contracts will…
Category: Escambia County
Gas prices rise
Gasoline prices jumped 9 cents last week. The average price for a gallon of regular, unleaded gasoline in Florida was $2.09 on Sunday, compared with $2 a week ago. The national average…
Elebash misstates facts in viewpoint
C.C. Elebash misstates the facts in his March 28 PNJ viewpoint, “Start slow with park infrastructure “: “The CRA would now have negative cash flow if its bonds had been sold in…
Elebash costs fire pension $3 million
I’m not serious, but that would be how Elebash, Fairchild and others would be spinning the losses of the City Fire Pension, if Quint Studer had been the one that voted to…
Elebash wants CMP, not stadium
Surprise, surprise. In his viewpoint in the PNJ today, C.C. Elebash wants the park infrastructure- roads, utilities, grading and environmental work-done, but nothing else on the CMP property. This creates few jobs…
Council passes Curbside recycling
Last the Pensacola City Council approved curbside recycling. Congratulations to last year’s Leadership Pensacola class who took this on as a project. They have succeeded in getting both ECUA and the City…
Anti-CMP experiment shows why P’cola moves slow
I thank my regular blog readers for indulging me in my week-long experiment with the anti-CMP cult. Since 2005, we have had a small group of naysayers out to stop the Community…
More Prostitution arrests (photos)
Prostitution Arrests in Brownsville Area On March 23rd into the early morning hours of March 24th, Escambia Deputies conducted another Prostitution sting in the area around Brownsville. The sting netted 15 total…
Mythbusted: Independent Baseball Thrives
Mythbusted: Independent Baseball Thrives Posted on March 24, 2009 The anti-CMP cult like to scoff at the Pensacola Pelicans because they aren’t affiliated with a major league baseball team. They call them…
Locals out of work, Birmingham firm recommended
A email received today: Thank you for your recent article. My husband, a local architect, is now out of work as one of the casualties from the decision made by our City…
Economic Development: who will be in charge
Politics may take over Economic Development in Escambia County. Some may argue that it already has, but now we have two options facing us. Mort O’Sullivan, chairman of the Pensacola Chamber of…
Council meeting lasts eight hours
The Pensacola held its committee meetings from 3:15-11:00 p.m. yesterday. The city staff appears to be out to wear down, The curbside recycling presentation took 90 minutes. The SBE discussion took 90…