City has budget shortfall – $5 million

EMAIL RECEIVED FROM SAM HALL: All: I received a phone call today from Tom Bonfield. The City is expecting a $5.4 million shortfall this year….

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Pensacola Firefighters

Letter to Pensacola City Manager Tom Bonfield Do you know how important your safety is? We ask that in jest, of course, as the City…

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Election Eve Observations

Before I start, I think it would be good to explain a few things about political commentary. Based on some of the comments being posted…

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Topless punishment costs City

Pensacola makes Australia news service – news.com.au. & Reuters News Service This is how the world sees Pensacola Cop orders topless punishment January 30, 2007…

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Strong Mayor to the Ballot!

Portland Mercury reports on Portland, Oregon putting a strong mayor initiative on the ballot: Portland is the last city of its size to still have…

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Okaloosa Co. makes MSN Top 15 places for jobs

Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Fla. Unemployment rate: 2.5 percent Mean annual wage: $32,430 Industry with largest percentage of workforce (Fort Walton Beach): Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation…

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Pensacola council committees set

Pensacola Mayor John Fogg on Jan. 10, two days after the new City Council was sworn in, named appointments to the Council’s four standing committees…

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City Council tells staff to draft interlocal agreement on plant

The Pensacola City Council voted unanimously to have staff draft interlocal agreements for the CRA & City with the ECUA on the financing of the…

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IN YOUR FACE – Best Year Ever

What were the three top events of 2006? Click here for Talking Points video

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IN YOUR FACE – Strong Mayor

IN Publisher Rick Outzen interviews John Peacock. CLICK HERE FOR STRONG MAYOR video

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Complete Spreadsheet on Plant Relocation

This shows the City and County’s portions of the CRA, plus what they can contribute from their LOST funds – less than 3% of their…

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ECUA has plan to move plant

Thanks to public record requests – I obtained the powerpoint presentation that O’Sullivan Creel has used in its latest presentations to ECUA board members on…

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Lipizzaners return

WORLD FAMOUS LIPIZZANER STALLIONS TWO SHOWS AT THE PENSACOLA CIVIC CENTER Pensacola, Fla- The world famous “Dancing White Stallions” ride into the Pensacola Civic Center…

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Spears stays on

Ed Spears will stay on as the interim director for Community Maritime Park Associates for another 90 days. Spears is the City of Pensacola’s Neighborhood…

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Most popular Myspace passwords

According to Wired.com, top 25 passwords for Myspace are: password1, abc123, myspace1, password, blink182, qwerty1, fuckyou, 123abc, baseball1, football1, 123456, soccer, monkey1, liverpool1, princess1, jordan23,…

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Priorities

Let’s assume, as the daily newspaper has, that Escambia County and Pensacola have the reserves and/or revenue sources to pay a significant portion of the…

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PNJ wants City and County to pay

Today the daily newspaper weighed in on the funding on the relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant – (City and county should kick…

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FEMA tells ECUA find the $115M elsewhere

Just as we predicted months ago – and just as Sen. Bill Nelson and Congressman Jeff Miller told them – FEMA rejected another grant to…

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Mayer coming to Pcola

Grammy award winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist, John Mayer, returns to the Pensacola Civic Center on January 29, 2007. Mayer’s chart topping hit, “Daughters” won…

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Hall wins Council seat. Marty now has a friend, maybe

Sam Hall trounced former city councilman Paul Young in the Pensacola City Council, District 2 run-off yesterday. The PNJ called it an upset, but many…

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