Attorney Fred Levin sent late yesterday a letter to the News Journal and Inweekly in support of Mayor Ashton Hayward and requesting that we print it in its entirety. Levin is longtime…
Category: Politics
And the walls come tumbling down
The PNJ is reporting that Pensacola City Councilman Charles Bare will call for a vote of no confidence in city administrator Eric Olson to be taken at next week’s city council meeting….
Sallis signs voting conflict form
Planning Board member Scott Sallis has signed a Form 8B – Memorandum of Voting Conflict. It is for the vote that occurred on July 14. The conflict is the measure before the…
What is Hayward’s role in ‘outrageous and chilling’ behavior of his City Administrator
Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, told Inweekly that City Administrator Eric Olson crossed the line when he called the boss of Melanie Nichols, president of the North Hill Preservation…
Backroom briefing: Jury still out on Justices and Legislature
Weekly political notes from The News Service of Florida By BRANDON LARRABEE AND JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA In the ongoing case of the Florida Legislature v. the Florida Supreme…
Olson and the email trail that indicates Nichols was targeted
City Administrator Eric Olson did not send a mandate to his department heads about how to reply to emails sent from government accounts until July 7, five days after he called the…
Bill proposed to overhaul Florida medical marijuana laws
From The News Service of Florida: More than a year after lawmakers approved allowing limited types of medical marijuana to be sold in Florida, a House Republican filed a bill Thursday that…
Planning board members say they relied on city staff
Planning Board member Scott Sallis read a written statement into the record at the Aug. 11 board meeting. He said that he voted on the his client’s item in July because of…
Medical marijuana signatures piling up
From The News Service of Florida: Backers of a ballot proposal to legalize medical marijuana are moving toward getting a key Florida Supreme Court review, with nearly 22,000 valid petition signatures submitted…
PNJ editorial blisters Olson for bullying, Hayward for his silence
The News Journal asked the First Amendment Foundation about City Administrator Eric Olson ordering city employees to not read emails from government accounts. FAF President Barbara Peterson was also asked about Olson’s…
City Hall: The Wobbly Wheel of Pensacola
Pensacola is an exciting place to live. Downtown Pensacola is booming and more development is on the way. The YMCA of Northwest Florida this morning held a groundbreaking for its new downtown…
Lt. Gov. Lopez-Cantera objects to U.S. embassy opening in Havana
Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who is running for the U.S. Senate, issued this statement: “The Obama Administration’s refusal to invite pro-democracy leaders to Friday’s U.S. Embassy ceremony in Havana is a…