What’s It Like to Run a U.S. City Now? The New York Times asked 16 mayors, including Pensacola’s D.C. Reeves about President Trump, immigration and their lives outside City Hall.
He told them that it was “it’s probably too early to say that there’s a distinct difference” between the Biden and Trump administrations.
Has he had changed his routines because of political violence? “Nothing permanent yet, but I’m certainly watching it.”
Best book they had read recently: “A Land Remembered” by Patrick D. Smith. “It’s a novel, but it’s kind of on the history of Florida.”
And bragged about our seafood.
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“A Land Remembered” is excellent.
This publication has run a story talking about how good the job market is in Pensacola. The job market is terrible. Simply put if someone wants to work, and wanting to work, they are out of work even though they want to work and make clear they wish to be employed, then its a terrible job market. Anyone who wants to work should be able to work according to knowledge, skills and abilities.
Anyone who wants a job in Pensacola must be able to get one, till this occurs, we have a terrible job market.
Thanks for being able to read through the typos to thoughts Lars. (I at least kept my promise not to open laptop.) I echo your sentiment exactly, of being so hopeful about the impact of his intelligent and energy. How can someone sleep at night pretending everything is normal when the national and state Gestapos are working in tandem to broadcast the third concentration camp coming to the Panhandle. I keep waiting for some sign that people are going to start waking up, and instead we get a hard toggle to appeasement and self interest. The time has passed for “let’s stick to local politics which aren’t about parties.” You either appease people dragging migrants and immigrants off to concentration camps or you don’t. It really is that simple.
Ms. Pino captures my feelings.
I had been surprisingly pleased with Reeves performance as mayor… once he lost the sports metaphors. He seems intelligent and involved… if not traveling off to conferences too often.
The Donalds endorsement was disappointing. Seems he must be being groomed for his next job.
And there goes my promise to myself not to even think about politics this Fourth, and to just stay in the garden trying to not feel or hear the growing anger, terror, despair, and their predictable offshoot–violence– arising all around us.
I’ll take a hard pass on wasting any further time on the pontifications of any elected official who hasn’t noticed any discernible difference between daily life and governance under the Trump administration.
How nice for him that his quotidien realities arent impinged upon by the escalating poverty, the third-world lack of access to healthcare and social safety nets: privileged, coddled, clueless.
Keep picking those checks for Byron Donalds, DC. And enjoy being on whatever scene of your choosing knowing you most likely won’t be grabbed off the street our workplace by masked government thugs, or, God help us, marines. Luckily for uou also is that you won’t get dragged out of a parking lot for trespassing after trying to obtain emergency healthcare while indigent. Be glad they aren’t taking books about rich white boys of the shelves at Escambia achools. Keep your fingers crossed a downpour doesn’t happen in one of the last remaining ungentridied sectiona of Downtown.
And, whatever you do, above all else–don’t look up.