Category: Politics
New county panhandling ordinance hurts PNJ sales
The Escambia County Commission is considering a new roadway safety ordinance that would prohibit all groups, including street side hawkers for the daily newspaper, from…
Facts about ESP rate increase
Mayor Ashton Hayward has proposed an overall 6.9% rate increase for Energy Services of Pensacola. The new rate is still much cheaper than Gulf Power…
Mitchell has petition signatures to qualify
Clorissti Johnson Mitchell, who is running for Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, District 3 seat, has met the petition requirement. “I look to have my website…
Foreclosures are up, higher than national rate
According to newly released data from CoreLogic on foreclosures for the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent area, the rate of foreclosures among outstanding mortgage loans is 6.23 percent…
Buzz: Council passed budget
The word I got late last night was the Pensacola City Council passed yesterday Mayor Ashton Hayward’s budget without amendments. There still is one more…
Other Panhandle TDCs have record Julys, too
Escambia County isn’t the only county having a record summer for tourism. Tourist development agencies in Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties all recorded their…
IP merging with Pearl River polluter
The business page of the daily newspaper has an AP article on International Paper merging with Temple Inland, No. 3 corrugated packaging maker in the…
ESP rate could unravel budget
The proposed rate increases for Energy Services of Pensacola appear to be the biggest trouble spot for Mayor Ashton Hayward in getting his budget passed….
Five hour-plus council meeting fails to make daily
I really don’t know exactly when the Pensacola City Council meeting stopped meeting. At 8 pm the group was still discussing. The daily newspaper had…
Archeological artifacts uncovered after BP spill
Public Radio International reported yesterday that after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, archaeologists are finding artifacts that shed new light on the Native American tribes…
Mother Jones: Inside Koch Brothers meeting
The 2012 elections, Charles Koch warned in his followers, will be “the mother of all wars.” Mother Jones has recordings that provide a behind-the-scenes look…
Pensacola City Council to vote on council exec
The Pensacola City Council meets today as its Committee of the Whole. An hour has been allotted on the agenda for the Council Executive position….
TDC emails show a move to secede from Chamber
There appears to be a move to pull Tourism Development out from underneath the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce. The daily interviewed the players…
How wrong the WSJ has been
Paul Krugman takes a shot at the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal whose predictions have included over the years: Clinton’s tax hike would…
Economics Club takes a shift far right
Gulf Coast Economics Club brings in policy advisor, Christian Camara, from right-wing Heartland Institute, which has been backed by the Koch Brothers. The Heartland Institute…
Cronimet to invest $5 million in Pensacola area
Press Release: The Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce announces the addition of Cronimet Corporation to the Pensacola Bay Area. Cronimet plans to add fifteen…
Who lays pipe the best?
Though the industry sometimes touts natural gas drilling as dominated by small businesses, the 10 largest drillers account for one-third of all domestic production. ProPublica…
Blog has record month
We had 27,139 unique visitors. Total visitors (excluding traffic generated by robots) 96,600. Page views 472, 955. Our bounce rate is 6.3 percent. If you…
Downtown moratorium
Tattoo parlors, restaurant chain cannibals, what’s next? Maybe somebody will bring back the Red Garter. For all its parking tickets, the Downtown Improvement Board and…
Firefighters’ Union supports Hayward budget
Press Release: The Pensacola Professional Firefighters support Mayor Hayward and his budget as presented to the Pensacola City Council. Both the Mayor and his union…
