Category: Pensacola
How did Marty & Charlie try to defeat the park in 2006?
While working on another a project, I came across the mailer that Marty Donovan, Charlie Fairchild and Save Our City mailed out before the 2006…
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty…
Plethora of Political Forums
Monday, July 19: Republican candidates for Escambia County Commission, District 2, will be held at 7 p.m. July 19 at the Perdido Bay Community Center,…
Chamber Candidate Forum
July 2010 Candidate Forums The Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a series of candidate forums in July 2010 to be moderated by…
Donovan/Nobles petition will cost City $12M
Ed Gray, head of the Capital Trust Agency-CDE, made it clear today that if the multi-use stadium is pulled out of the Community Maritime Park…
Maritime Park Design-Build Contract
The Donovan/Nobles political action committee, Park Yes Stadium No, the purpose of its petition is reconsideration of the measure as follows: “That City Council approve…
If Marty and Jack didn’t like the stadium…
The right to petition a Pensacola City Council decision is not one that should be taken lightly. If the citizens have voiced their concerns in…
Donovan/Nobles PAC is formed
It’s Park Yes Stadium No. And here is the website: http://www.parkyesstadiumno.com/ City Attorney Rusty Wells, according to PNJ reporter Jamie Page, has determined the former…
Email on BP in Bayou Chico
To the Pensacola City Council (which doesn’t meet again until July 19): I live in a townhouse on Mahogany Mill Pond, and I am very…
Donovan/Nobles petition, where is it?
Has anyone been asked to sign the Marty Donovan/Jack Nobles petition to rescind the Design-Build contract? Has anyone knocked on your door? Has a tent…
Should We Close Our Waterways?
At last night’s special City Council committee of the whole meeting, one of the issues discussed by members was the possibility of closing inshore waterways…
Buzz: Locals want to expand BP presence in Bayou Chico
A local company, Bayou Chico Properties, LLC, will be approaching the Pensacola City Council tonight about letting BP expand its operations to their property on…
Buzz: Where’s Mike?
For the past two days, I’ve been asked why hasn’t Pensacola Mike Wiggins spoke out against the petition drive by former councilmen Jack Nobles and…
CMP 101
The blog has grown beyond Northwest Florida. We are approaching a million page views a month. Some of the new readers have been drawn here…
Fairchild calls City Council “spineless”
More emails from Pensacola’s one and only PAC man, Charlie Fairchild: ________________________________ From the web designer Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:44 PM To: Farichild…
Charles Fairchild, secret partner with Donovan & Nobles
I acquired these emails from Save Our City & No Boss Mayor co-founder Charlie Fairchild to an out-of-town web designer. Looks like Charlie, Marty and…
Memories of Marty and Jack
Having studied area politics for the nearly 30 years I’ve lived here-the past 11 as publisher of the IN, I have two distinct memories of…
CMP: Stop the pettiness and bullying
Pensacola had a head start over the rest of North America 451 years ago. When DeLuna founded Pensacola, there was no New York, Boston, Chicago,…
BTW: NMTC tax credit payback is $19M
I’ve checked with city officials. The multi-use stadium is part of the NMTC contract that has been executed. The $12M has already been received. If…
Sunnyside of BP
Pensacola’s unemployment has continued to drop and we have lower unemployment than the rest of the state. Expect the rate to continue to drop as…
