Notes: Council Committee of the Whole

March 24 Pensacola City Council Committee of the Whole notes: In the end, the Committee of the Whole approved the budget for the Charter Review…

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Property values slashed $193M

In Escambia County, when property values doubled and tripled after Hurricane Ivan, property owners were told to grin and bear it. In Baldwin County, the…

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Double dip reporter on radio

I will have Lucy Morgan, former Tallahassee bureau chief and political writer for the St. Petersburg Times on IN Your Head Radio today from 1-2…

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Our Officer School opens in Newport

From the Newport paper: Newport welcomes return of Navy’s Officer Candidate School 01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, March 23, 2008 Now that it has returned…

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Miller’s wish list

Congressman Jeff Miller lists his funding requests that he has submitted to the House Appropriations Committee on his website. Okaloosa County does very well –…

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Local double dippers

The St. Pete Times has reported that a growing number of elected officials are quietly taking advantage of a loophole carved into the state retirement…

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PNJ website navigation

I think I figured out how to find the local news on the new pnj.com. Try clicking on News in the top navigation bar, then…

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IN keeps rolling

The IN is on an unprecedented roll right now. Ad revenues are still up 48% over last year – we will have the best first…

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Why Jewel gave EWB zero

Pensacola City Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn said Friday she expected more from E.W. Bullock Associates officials in their presentation for the Energy Services of Pensacola contract,…

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Faces of American War deaths

USA Today has statistical breakdown in the U.S. death toll in the five-year Iraq War. The total deaths is 3983 serviceman, plus eight Defense Department…

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Widow on radio again

Today, I am on the road. At News Radio 1620, we will replay my interviews with Tania Julin, one of a group of widows who…

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Feedback

How do you like our coverage of the city council and county commission meetings? We are going in a different direction than Gannett and the…

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Notes: BCC 3.20

Commissioner salaries were still on the agenda: Board of County Commissioners Regular Meeting 20 March 2008 1. Call to order at 5:32 p.m. 2. Invocation…

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Notes: Agenda Review 3.20

Board of County Commissioners Regular Meeting Morning Agenda Review Called to order at 9:03 a.m. All County Commissioners were present except for Commissioner Marie Young….

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Notes: Budget workshop 3.20

Board of County Commissioners Public Hearings Preliminary Budget Workshop Fiscal Year 2008/2009 Countywide Budget, Continued 20 March 2008 Call to order at 10:40 a.m. All…

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Taxes for cars, not economy

People have asked me why can’t Escambia County follow the lead of Sarasota County and fast-track its Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) budget to jumpstart…

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ECUA blocking curbside recycling

Everything with Emerald Coast Utility Authority is a negotiation. Cleaning up the water that it supplied the to Gulf Breeze in the 1990s; the IP…

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Notes: Commission budget workshop Mar. 19

Board of County Commissioners Public Hearings Preliminary Budget Workshop Fiscal Year 2008/2009 Countywide Budget 19 March 2008 Call to order at 8:35 a.m. Grover Robinson…

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Cannada-Wynn gave EW Bullock zero

At last week’s Pensacola City Council meeting, Leroy Boyd of Movement for Change and others made a big deal about E.W. Bullock being awarded the…

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pnj.com

The new pnj.com website is locking up my Foxfire browser. Understand my computer isn’t the latest model and I do have a number of spam…

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