Category: Politics
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…
Gingrich gets major NH endorsement
New Hampshire’s largest newspaper endorsed Newt Gingrich in the Republican presidential race on Sunday, giving the former House speaker a boost in a state where…
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…
Gingrich draws fire for immigration approach
In the latest Republican presidential candidate, much of the attention focused on the latest frontrunner, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Jan Crawford reports on some…
Black Friday Parking
For those looking to head downtown for your Black Friday shopping, you may be concerned about parking. You can spend you change at the stores…
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…
Video:The Women Herman Cain Hasn’t Sexual Harassed Speak Out
From Funny or Die: He’s always checking if we have breast cancer Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Ad – watch more funny videos
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…
Bus workers union releases grievances
Open letter to Escambia County Commissioners: Dear Commissioners – please see the attached grievances filed by ECAT employees just in recent days. Please note that…
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…
Gingrich: Get any job that teaches you to show up on Monday
Today at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Newt Gingrich proposed radical new ideas to solve poverty in America, including changes in child labor laws, getting rid…
