The SpringFest Board of Directors is proud of the public and private support it has generated during the fall. We are encouraged by the way the community has embraced the prospect of…
Writer seeks info on dad at Naval Museum
From San Antonio Express-News: I was 7, a gangly schoolboy in Corpus Christi, when word came that my dad, a pilot for the Navy’s famed flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, had…
Springfest wants help again
The Pensacola News Journal reports that the Springfest board wants more time to “land a national management company to produce the festival.” This will be the fourth time the board has tried…
Beach CRA
Panama City Beach has a Community Redevelopment Agency to take care of its infrastructure needs. It can do so since its beach residents and businesses pay property taxes. The Pensacola Beach leases…
Port Navarre legal battle
The Daily News reports that the ongoing legal case has delayed construction on the huge residential/retail development known as Port Navarre for more than two years may be nearing resolution as a…
Civic Center for sale
There is a buzz that BOCC is considering selling the Pensacola Civic Center. It sleeps 6000, ten bathrooms, large family room, no yard to mow, no windows. Interested?
Can not resist this post
Two months after I wrote about the Chamber’s magnet program, the daily newspaper writes that they are popular: Magnets showing up everywhere, and chamber hopes they will stick. My Oct. 4 Outtakes…
Panama City may get port tenant
Panama City has an Intermodal Distribution Center to go with its port. It’s an industrial park near Hwy 231 for companies who agree to use its port. The News Herald reports that…
County buys land for westside park
The Perdido Bay Youth Sports Association will get its ball park. Escambia County commissioners on Thursday approved, by a 4-1 vote, the purchase of 217 acres on Bauer Road for $1.41 million…
PNJ reports Touart wants better pension
Three days have you read it here on the blog, Pensacola News Journal reports Touart fighting for his pension. The county commissioners didn’t take the bait and did nothing about Patterson’s letter….
Springdale ballpark to open April 2008
In Springdale, Ark., a referendum passed on July 11, 2006 to build a baseball park by extending a 1% sales tax. The vote was close – passing by only 15 votes, 2,408…
Baseball in Billings
Here is how another city moved quickly to get its baseball park built: In Billings, Montana, city residents passed a referendum for a new park on Nov. 7, 2006. On June 11…
Mobile job market bright
From Mobile Press Register Mobile area employers expect 2008 to start much stronger than 2007 in terms of hiring, according to the results of the most recent Manpower Employment Outlook Survey. None…
Possible Touart game plan
I’ve been trying to figure out what is the Touart game plan with this last minute move to get on the 12/13 BOCC agenda: 1. The new BOCC chairman is vocal Touart…
Atty says Touart still county employee
Former (?) County administrator George Touart’s attorney has sent a letter to Escambia County Commissioner Mike Whitehead that says Touart was never terminated by the county and is still a county employee….
Draft RFP for CMP developers
Here is the draft for Request for Proposal for the master developer of the Community Maritime Park: rfpmaritime-park.pdf Enjoy!
Fred Thompson on IN Your Head Radio
The Fred Thompson campaign team working with NewsRadio 1620 to get presidential hopeful Fred Thompson on the show today. We have a shot to get him on my show between 1 to…
Hall ignores emails
Last week, a big show was made to send Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall emails in support of the Community Maritime Park. The Friends of the Community Maritime Park reported over 50…
Council moves ahead on CMP, sort of
Notes on the Pensacola city council’s discussion on the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park at its committee of the whole meeting: The Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park’s pre-development budget and…
Springfest and PLT crap out
The Pensacola City Council wasn’t in the holiday spirit at its Committee of the Whole meeting yesterday. SpringFest board president Bobby Marcus was eager for the committee to reach a decision about…
