The interim Escambia County Administrator George Touart was making the rounds last night to victory parties. When he visited The Improv, Touart went up to Rev. Lutimothy May (Lumon May’s younger brother,…
ACLU speaks on defeat of Florida Amendments 5, 6 and 9
The following statement regarding the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments 5 , 6 and 8 may be attributed to Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida. Note: Amendment 5 would…
More Seats Added to Cirque du Soleil Show
Due to popular demand, new seats have been added for both performances to the Pensacola tour stop of Saltimbanco at the Pensacola Bay Center, boosting the arena capacity to almost 4,000 seats per show. Saltimbanco will perform…
Visit Pensacola Calls for Festival and Event Promotional Support
Press Release: Visit Pensacola, the tourism arm of the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce announced today the availability of an application for Festival and Event Marketing and Promotional Support Request for events…
Pensacola airport bonds downgraded
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the City of Pensacola’s 2008 Airport Capital Improvement Revenue Bonds (about $35.2 million outstanding) from to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+,’ according to Reuters. The rating outlook remains negative. The…
Gaetz maintains GOP majority in Florida Senate
Press Release: Strong Republican Majority Elected to the Florida Senate …GOP Holds 26 of 40 State Senate Seats in First Election with Fair Districts Standards… Tallahassee–Amid historic voter turnout numbers, Floridians elected…
County and city governments take another hit on revenues
Florida voters passed three amendments that will expand property tax exemptions. The estimated cost to Escambia County alone is about $1 million next year: These passed: Amendment No. 2 Veterans Disabled Due…
All judges retained, Florida Chamber and GOP lose effort to remove
The retention of the Florida Supreme Court justices was a political football. The Florida GOP party wanted to this group replaced after they overturned votes by the GOP-controlled state legislature and some…
Six lessons to take from Nov. 6 election
1. Negative campaigns still don’t work in local races. Hugh King and his handlers did everything they could to discredit Lumon May, including creating a website called Lumon Lies. Mike Whitehead ran…
Waiting It Out on the Dividing Line
With Florida split down the middle in the presidential race, Republicans and Democrats in Pensacola gathered at their respective Election Day bashes. Both camps were gearing up for a long night. The…
No results from Santa Rosa County
It is the black hole of election results. Both Escambia and Okaloosa are posting results online.
Wingate beats Jerralds by 45 votes
Pensacola City Councilman John Jerralds didn’t believe he had to campaign for re-election. His hubris was his downfall. Gerald Wingate, with all the precincts counted, has beaten Jerralds – 1,652 to 1,607….
Wingate takes lead over Jerralds
With one precinct left to be reported, Gerald Wingate has a slight lead over incumbent John Jerralds – 1182 to 1168. This will be close.
Jerralds has slight lead over Wingate, less than 100 votes
For Pensacola City Council, incumbent John Jeralds has a slight lead in the early voting over Gerald Wingate: John Jerralds 942 to Gerald C. Wingate 849 This race is too close to…
Looks like May, Robertson and Barry will be elected to Escambia County Commission
The leads that Wilson Robertson, Lumon May and Steve Barry have are nearly insurmountable, according to Commissioner Grover Robinson who is at Supervisor David Stafford’s office. Also Janet Holley, Chris Jones and…
Lumon May has huge margin out of early voting
Lumon May 9.272; Tiffany Washington 2573; Hugh King 858; and Dooley Johnson 203
Doing political commentary on WCOA tonight
In the WCOA studio with Don Parker and Brian Newkirk, we will start broadcasting election coverage at 7 p.m. We will have ABC coverage on the national races. Don, Jim Sanborn (who…
DIB on MURAC Report
The Downtown Improvement Board is embarking on a search for a new permanent executive director. When the board began discussing the recently released report from the Mayor’s Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee this…
Reports From the Polls
Standing outside Precinct 34 earlier today, Phil Hall, an observer with Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), said everything was going well. There had been an issue with a ballot machine, but it got…
Councilman Pays for Party
Gallery Night will run until midnight. At least this month. During this morning’s Downtown Improvement Board meeting, Pensacola City Councilman Brian Spencer ponied up $2,500 of his discretionary spending to ensure that…