Category: Politics

The Escambia Board of County Commissioners voted today to name Jack Brown, Taylor County administrator, its new county administrator. Though the final vote was 5-0,…

Last month I had the opportunity to view the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street” (WWS). What I was hoping to see was a continuation…

Coming out of its ‘shade’ meeting, the Escambia County Commission voted to go back to court and ask ECUA to be the joint receiver of…

The Escambia County Commission will discuss today a settlement with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice that will split the shared detention costs. The Department…

Are you familiar with the term “mark-to-market” accounting? Okay…. mosey back into Google and look it up. This term represents where some economists want to…

Judge Gary Bergosh heard arguments for nearly five hours on a temporary injunction request by Robert de Varona, the airport’s food concessionaire, to prevent the…

Grab your favorite search engine (Google always works for me) and type in “55 trillion”. A Bloomberg article dated 10-18-11, featuring writers Bob Ivy, Hugh…

Note: Steve Barnes sends in articles occasionally for this blog. His focus has been sports, but he sent me this on Robert de Varona’s final…

Jesse Rigby of Clark Partington Hart called to confirm there is no deal between his client, Robert de Varona, and the city of Pensacola. He…

Just got off the phone with Robert de Varona. There is no deal with the city. “There is no agreement at all,” said Varona. “This…

Mayor Ashton Hayward warned the Pensacola City Council that the city would be sued if it didn’t give the concessions contract to OHM Group. Apparently…

by Mark Taylor There is not much I despise more than a bully. We’ve all been around them, in school, at the playground, and maybe…