The Pensacola City Council has been afraid to hire a law firm to represent it against the BP for the city’s lost revenue. Meanwhile Panama City hired a firm, Nix, Patterson and…
Buzz: Heaton/MPDP offers pass-through deal?
George Hawthorne, who drafted the EBO agreement for the MPDP/CMPA, will report to the Community Maritime Park Associates board today that he and Greg Green, the subcontractor in PNJ article today and…
Tax-Cut Deal Price Tag: $868 Billion
Wall Street Journal: The numbers are in on Obama’s tax-cut compromise with the GOP, and they’re not pretty. Senate leaders began debating the measure Thursday night, and unveiled the plan’s estimated cost…
Missing Halcyon letter two months after RFQ deadline
Below is the letter from Michael Buckley, Halcyon LTD. The the first page of the letter is a commitment to visit site on June 14, 2007 arriving in Pensacola at 8 a.m….
I was fooled, too, by Davison
I was fooled by Scott Davison. I believe in the Community Maritime Park project. I believe in the Contractor’s Academy. On a Saturday morning over three years ago, I spent four hours…
MPDP partner’s Brass Real Estate lost project in Corpus Christi
Who is Rick Rodriguez and Brass/Magi? The daily newspaper in Corpus Christi, TX ran this article. The article (Oct 2009) says Rodriguez was new to development with three unfinished projects in San…
TaxWatch finds $4B in savings
Press Release: A prominent group comprised of current and former government officials, business leaders, organizational experts, and renowned academics have released a report of 125 ideas worth more than $4 billion in…
China refuses to release Nobel Prize winner
Washington Post/AP: China has refused to release Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo on the eve of the awards ceremony in Oslo. Liu is serving an 11-year sentence for writing and circulating a…
Nodine trial continues
On Wednesday, the murder of former Mobile County Commissioner and 2009 Mullet Toss champion Steve Nodine resumed. Jurors heard about a 2009 incident when a drunk Nodine caused a scene at the…
Davison surprised by Buckley comments
PNJ reports MPDP VP Scott Davison gave it a letter from Michael Buckley of Halcyon, LTD that Davison says gave him permission to include Buckley on the Land Capital development team. According…
Judge Collier not surprised about Davison
When he heard that Scott Davison may have misrepresented someone as part of his development team in order to qualify to be the master developer of the Community Maritime Park, Judge Lacey…
Buzz: Back off, Outzen
I was sent a message Wednesday night from Tony McCray, who is paid by Maritime Park Development Partners (MPDP) to run their Equal Opportunity Business program, that I better back off MPDP….
No death penalty for Coldiron or Stallworth
PRESS RELEASE: The Office of the State Attorney announced today that it will no longer seek the death penalty for Wayne Thomas Coldiron or Donnie Ray Stallworth, Jr. Both Coldiron and Stallworth…
Thomas must give back grant funds
The Escambia County School Board will discuss at its Dec. 14 regular meeting the audit of the Restorative Justice Grant, the $945,000 three-year grant that Superintendent Malcolm Thomas recommended the board cancel…
Arrest for Broxson murder (Facebook link)
Escambia County Sheriff’s Investigators have arrested Joshua Wayne Douglas, 22, of Pensacola, for the murder of Jamie Broxson, one of the two women whose bodies were found Monday, November 29, near Jernigan…
Buzz: Judge drops controversial case
Judge Tom Santurri has recused himself from the Family case, Winfield vs. Lepinany, which we reported the website FightingFathers.com was upset about. Read Buzz 12.2
Nodine Trial: Victim’s sister got a text
The murder trial of Steve Nodine, former Mobile County Commissioner and frequent VIP visitor to Pensacola, got off with a bang yesterday. Susan Bloodworth, the first witness for the prosecution, told jurors…
Remembering Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John Edwards, died yesterday after a six-year battle with breast cancer. She was a brilliant lawyer and author. When in New Orleans for the The Daily…
Ford to head House Energy and Utilities Subcommittee
Press Release: This afternoon Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon announced the chairmanships for the Subcommittees for the 2011 Legislative Session. State Representative Clay Ford, District 3 (Gulf Breeze) has been appointed to…
Santa Rosa FCAT GPA 3.67
Milton High jumped from a D to A school based on FCAT scores. Jay & Gulf Breeze maintained their A’s. Central maintained its B. Pace went from B to A and Navarre…
