Tax Watch report tomorrow
Florida TaxWatch to Releases Analysis, Recommendations on Improving Escambia County Government PENSACOLA – The Florida TaxWatch Center for Local Government Studies will release the results…
Notes: Charter review 6.19.08
June 18 Charter Review Commission meeting notes: Mayor John Fogg told the Charter Review Commission Monday night that he announced when he did that he’s…
Reasons GAO upheld Boeing protests
Here are the reasons why the Government Accountability Office upheld the Boeing protest of the Air Force Tanker contract for Northrop-Grumman in Mobile: 1. The…
Wendell Hall lays off 14, save $620K
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff announced that he is cutting 14 positions by July 11. Hall’s spokesman, Sgt. Scott Haines, told the Daily News that…
TAC wants Civic Advisory Committee
Tourism Administration and Convention Committee is asking the Escambia County Commission to form a Pensacola Civic Center Advisory Committee. In June 2, 2008 letter to…
City has huge tree fund
Pensacola City Council will be considering a tree ordinance. The Home Builders Association of West Florida is questioning the proposed mitigation fees. Under the new…
Russert’s replacement
The New York Times lists Pensacola native Joe Scarborough as a possible replacement for Meet the Press host Tim Russert. Don’t count Joe out. He…
IN Your Head Radio 6.17
Today on IN Your Head Radio we will talk to Escambia County Schools Associate Superintendent Ronnie Arnold about Superintendent Jim Paul’s announcement today that he…
You wouldn’t be able to print what I have to say
Those are the words of long-time Okaloosa County bar owner Cash Moore to Daily News reporter Tom McLaughlin. The Daily News reports: Moore is being…
Marty pre-files
Marty Donovan prefiled to run again for his city council seat on Friday, June 13. So all the council crew, except for John Fogg, is…
Living on $275 a week
The Orlando Sentinel asks, “Could you live on $275 a week?” Florida’s $275 weekly maximum benefit for the unemployed hasn’t changed in 10 years. In…
Mobile wins again – $101 million
Mobile Press Register reports that the Mobile hotel industry is booming. Mobile has no beach. Yet a Press-Register analysis of city lodging tax records shows…
City golf course
A favorite gripe of PNJ columnist Mark “Moby” O’Brien is the city-owned Osceola Golf Course – not the Port of Pensacola. Well, Fort Walton Beach…
Notes: CMPA meeting 6.13.08
June 13 Community Maritime Park Associates Board meeting notes: Much of Friday’s Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees was standing room only as the…
IN Your Head Radio 6.13
We will talk to Dahlia Hashad, Domestic Human Rights Program Director for Amnesty International. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that the prisoners being held at Guantánamo…
Sheriff candidates debate, no arrests
In Broward County, sheriff candidates debated and no one threatened to arrest anyone. Amazing. There appears to be a trend to sheriff’s debates with news…
DeeDee Ritchie for Mayor
There is a group trying to convince DeeDee Ritchie to run for mayor of Pensacola. The former state representative is seriously considering this re-entry into…
Notes: BCC 6.12.08
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE WORKSHOP BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Escambia County Government Complex 221 Palafox Place June 12, 2008 Call to order at 9:06 a.m….
Jaden Markes dies
The four-year-old that was the center of the national controversy of whether he was suffering from Miller-Dieker Syndrome or child neglect died peacefully yesterday in…
