Category: Politics
City has budget shortfall – $5 million
EMAIL RECEIVED FROM SAM HALL: All: I received a phone call today from Tom Bonfield. The City is expecting a $5.4 million shortfall this year….
Brownsville is tough to clean up
Operation Brownsville isn’t the first attempt by Sheriff Ron McNesby to clean up that area. However, it may be the most intensive. (You will need…
State property tax solutions have problems
Gov. Crist’s idea of doubling homestead exemptions has a heavy price tag for local governments – $608.6 BILLION. He has already backtracked some and said…
Brownsville case for Annexation
If Brownsville was inside the city limits of Pensacola, would it have been allowed to deteriorate to level it was before Operation Brownsville? No, the…
Operation Beat David Morgan?
I’ve been hearing and reading on the PNJ website that the real impetus for Sheriff Ron McNesby’s 30-day effort to clean up Brownsville was a…
Local GOP splintered
There is no organized local Republican Party – yes. the women meet, but they don’t have much say in who runs or doesn’t run for…
Oops, Whitehead forgot these
In the daily newspaper, Commissioner Mike Whitehead defended his and his fellow Escambia County Commissioners’ decision to not rollback taxes when they had $31 million…
PNJ Sunday Paper Review
Woke up early with too much time on hands: At the crossroads – Washington bureau chief Larry Wheeler writes of the gov’t red tape involved…
CMPA, Community wins
Community Maritime Park Associates (CMPA) board approved the master developer request for proposal and hired a search firm to do a national search for an…
