The News Journal is about to unveil the latest Gannett project – Deal Chicken – which is targeted to compete with Groupon, Val-Pak and other coupon programs. The Gannett Blog believes that…
Percentage taking ACT drops significantly at Pine Forest
State Senator Don Gaetz talks about the importance of encouraging all seniors to attend college, two and four years colleges. He measured it by how many seniors took the ACT exam. Pine…
Go online and see the Pensacola Homeowners Association (with updates)
It looks like the Pensacola Homeowners Association, also known as the Pensacola City Council, has chosen option 1. Sherri Myers says she won’t vote for the budget. She admitted that she cut…
Oops, oil may be leaking from Deepwater Horizon well
Mobile Press Register reports oil is once again fouling the Gulf of Mexico around the Deepwater Horizon well, which was capped a little over a year ago. Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of small,…
City Council has four options for Budget workshop
The Pensacola City Council reboots its budget workshops today at 9 a.m. at Pensacola City Hall. The Pensacola Fire Union may or may not come in mass. City Council member-in-exile Diane Mack…
Another abandoned school eyesore
This is the one that you have seen for decades from I-110 Southbound. The building was once a school (J. Lee Pickens School), then the Textbook Depository. You will find it stinking…
CMPA Board approves audit of ‘soft’ costs
Kudos to Councilman Larry Johnson for pressing for a special audit into the Maritime Park expenditures. The citizens have a right to understand how nearly $40 million was spent on a project…
Is Pensacola Fire Department top heavy?
Council President Maren Deweese wants to bring back the fire rescue units. If her facts hold up, she has a compelling case. If the rest of the city council and the firefighters…
Mayor Hayward responds to City Council
Mayor Ashton Hayward responded Tuesday afternoon to all the information requests from the City Council members. Not surprisingly, he rejected Council member Sherri Myers’ budget cuts. He did rework some of the…
ACT Scores: Gulf Breeze tops area
Gulf Breeze High School led the area in ACT scores for the 2010-2011 school year. Pensacola High has the highest scores for the Escambia County public school system. One surprise is the…
DOJ subpoenas focus on Santa Rosa Good Ol’ Boys
The Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners have been served with two subpoenas for a Federal Grand Jury. 1) Asks for any and all records for the time frame January 1, 2004…
WEAR TV 3 finds toothless neighbor for news segment
WEAR TV 3 covered Mayor Ashton Hayward’s announcement of the demolition of the old Blount school. It took about half of the segment for the reporter to find a toothless neighbor who…
Pam Wiggins’ daughter: Hugh Wiggins knew everything
A reader sent me this post on the website “Justice must be served” that is by someone claiming to be Pamela Long Wiggins’ daughter. It was posted on July 28: The trial…
Brownsville Middle School continues to deteriorate (photos)
While Mayor Hayward and the City are dealing with the old Blount school, Brownsville Middle School on West Avery Street remains abandoned. I visited the school during lunch. Three trailers are parked…
City Budget cuts 18 authorized positions
Mayor Ashton Hayward’s budget cuts the authorized positions from 860 last year to 842 for FY 2012. The net increase to the General Fund positions is one -City Council executive. The General…
Hugh Wiggins’ case thrown out
The case against Hugh Wiggins, husband of Pamela Long Wiggins, has been thrown out by a Mississippi judge. The judge ruled that the immunity granted Wiggins by local State Attorney Bill Eddin’s…
Councilman Wu submitted his requests July 18
I received from the City additional information on the budget requests of the Pensacola City Council. Councilman P.C. Wu sent in his budget requests on July 18. He addressed sidewalks, crosswalks and…
City Fire Union scares downtown businesses (updated)
Yesterday, the Pensacola Fire Union delivered flyers to downtown businesses telling them that the City has put their lives at risk and asking them to “support Councilwomen DeWeese in her efforts to…
Buzz: CMPA committee refuses special audit of park expenditures
Yesterday at its committee meeting, the chairman of the Community Maritime Park Associates Operations & Audit Committee, Councilman Larry Johnson, made a motion for a special audit of the expenditures incurred for…
Only 4 council members sent in budget requests
Through a public record requests, the IN obtained the written budget priorities submitted by the Pensacola City Council members to Mayor Ashton Hayward. Only four council members, Ronald Townsend, John Jerralds, Megan…
