Tag: Pensacola
Nov. 13 report from pro-charter
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contributions: Jere Peacock: $500.00 Toni Tan: $100.00 Robert Patton: $100.00 No report from No Boss Mayor…
No Boss Mayor keeps finances out of Sunshine
It has been two days since we emailed No Boss Mayor for their financial information. Still no replies. As you may remember, No Boss Mayor…
Today’s deposit for Pro-charter
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contribution: Melinda Hilterbrand 500.00 This is the fourth financial report released by this PAC.
Pro Charter releases third financial report
Today Believe in A Better Pensacola deposited the following contributions: Col Richard J. And Betty Hooton $100 Laura Keene $250 Barry Beroset $250 John Beroset…
The Pension Fiasco plot gets deeper
We now know how the General Pension contributions jumped from $400K to $6 million. We see how the staff miscalculated the financial impact of the…
General pension fiasco and a smoking gun
The City pensions have puzzled me. How did the City end up with such a huge jump in pension costs? The City’s contributions to the…
Deconstructing No Boss Mayor, Part 6
Opinion 6 from Byron Kessler There are those in our community who contend that the lack of sufficient concentration of power is at fault for…
Deconstructing No Boss Mayor, Part 5
Opinion 5 from Don Caton, former City Attorney The more I hear from those that advocate a new strong mayor for Pensacola, the better I…
Deconstructing No Boss Mayor, Part 4
Opinion 4 THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY MUST STEP UP According to the most recent Quality of Life Survey conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, the leading…
Deconstructing No Boss opinions, Part 3
Opinion 3 “Too often, people who deal with the public’s money and do the public’s business view the state’s excellent Sunshine Law as, at best,…
Deconstructing No Boss Mayor, Part 2
Sam Horton tries again. Opinion 2 Soon the Citizens of Pensacola will be asked to vote on a new form of government for the city…
Deconstructing No Boss Mayor, Part 1
The No Boss Mayor website has five opinions to support their opposition to the proposed charter. Here is the first one: Watching the proponents of…
Shrinking Pensacola could be a problem (updated)
Using the US Census Quick Facts, I looked at similar sized Florida cities what has been happening to their populations from 2000-2006 Pensacola, 2000: 56,255…2006:…
Analysis of City Manager/City Council system
I want this post and comment thread to be on the current Pensacola government, not the proposed charter, not strong mayor. No personal attacks or…
Televised Charter Debate tonight -Update
Bob Kerrigan is hosting a two-hour debate on his WUWF TV show – Channel 4 – from 6 to 8 p.m. this evening. Former Mayor…
Fairchild – biggest supporter of No Boss Mayor
The No Boss Mayor PAC has released a draft of its campaign finance report for October. Charlie Fairchild has loaned the PAC $3,000 of the…
Even more pension stats
The City of Pensacola has 2008 estimated population of 53,820. The two Florida cities that are closest in populations are Bradenton (53,513) and Margate (54,086)….
Pension plan train wreck
One of the biggest examples of the financial risks in having an administrative branch of city government that isn’t directly answerable to the public is…
Anti-charter tones down Fear & Smear campaign
The No Boss Mayor group has reduced its message down from six to four points and toned down the language. They have combined these two…


