Halcorp gives Donovan $750 before council vote
Councilman Marty Donovan got another $750 from Halcorp and its officers prior to the Nov. 20 vote to extend their lease at the Port of…
May have missed this
Two Escambia High School students were in a gun battle off campus on Friday. One was shot, after he couldn’t get his gun out in…
More jobs cut
NorthEscambia.com reports West Fraser Timber Co is cutting 69 jobs at its facility in Citronelle, Alabama. The announcement comes just weeks after it shutdown its…
GB native in Taco Bell ad
Watch the new Taco Bell ad with two buddies eating tacos while watching their buddy be chased by bull. The guy in the green shirt…
Moby misses point on airport hotel lease
PNJ columnist Mark Obrien missed what I think is the real point about the airport hotel lease approved by the Pensacola City Council. The issue…
PNJ updates Solutia layoffs story
Last night when I posted that Solutia had laid off 780 workers, the pnj.com was reporting 200 in its headline online. The confusion is over…
Solutia lays off/fires 780 people
This includes employees and the contract/leased employees. PNJ and WEAR TV 3 are only reporting about 200 people, but our sources inside Solutia tell us…
BTW: Halcorp lease passed
Halcorp got its 2.5-year lease extension last night. The Pensacola City Council passed it by a vote of 7-3, with Councilmen Wu and Wiggins and…
Sansom got NWFL State College $200K…quietly
St. Petersburg Times reports Rep. Ray Sansom did get his new employer $200,000 in the current budget to help Northwest Florida State College create a…
State must cut another $2 billion
The word from Tallahassee is that state economists will announce today that the state’s budget deficit could reach $2 billion for the year ending June…
Common Cause questions Sansom hiring
The Daily News reports that Common Cause Florida, a political watchdog group, see House Speaker Ray Sansom’s new $110,000-a-year job at Northwest Florida State College…
Nobles: I think we’ve dealt fairly with everyone
Jack, the Pensacola City Council dealt more than fairly with Julian MacQueen, Al Coby, Frank Miller (see last post)…everyone but the citizens. The citizens deserve…
Council approves airport deal anyway
By IN Reporter Sean Boone Airport deal lives after city hiccup After a week long fiasco described by Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn as “The clash of…
What you might not know about airport hotel lease
Sandspur Development can subdivide the property into six parcels and is only required to build on one of the sub-parcels. The Master Plan shown the…
Please table airport deal
When the Escambia County Commission felt the park deal wasn’t done properly last September, it voted it down and had staff rebid it. The commission…
BTW…
Northwest Florida State College, formerly Okaloosa-Walton Community College, has the Bo Johnson Fitness Center. What building will Ray Sansom have named after him?
Press release: Sansom takes new job
Press Release from Northwest Florida State College: NICEVILLE–Ray Sansom, an Okaloosa County native who attended Okaloosa-Walton Junior College as a student in the 1980’s, will…
Former House Speaker Bo Johnson had college job, too
When Bolley “Bo” Johnson was rising to the top of the Florida House, he had a job at Okaloosa-Walton Community College (now named Northwest Florida…
Beggs & Lane, Hook Bolton win $12.9M Accutane case
Hook Bolton and Beggs & Lane, along with Seeger Weiss, won in New Jersey Superior Court judgments totaling $12.9 million from pharmaceutical maker Hoffman-La Roche…
District 2 campaign expenses
Sam Hall $19,328.11 Votes: 2,257 Printing: $3,115.72 Mailing Services: $2,922.31 Design Work: $2,453.40 Signs: $2,235.93 Advertising (Print/Digital): $1,010.00 Demographic Behavior: $957.00 Movement For Change/We Vote:…
