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. Council will meet on Monday, February 26,…
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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 has decided to put off the hiring…
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 on the House District 3 race, we…
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 08:46am A FLORIDA city has agreed to…
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 a “commissioner” form of government, in which…
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 and food services (15.7 percent) Predominant occupation…
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 for the 2007-2009 Council term. Also named…
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 relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment…
IN YOUR FACE – Best Year Ever
What were the three top events of 2006? Click here for Talking Points video
IN YOUR FACE – Strong Mayor
IN Publisher Rick Outzen interviews John Peacock. CLICK HERE FOR STRONG MAYOR video
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 total local option sales tax collections each…
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 moving the Main Street Sewage Treatment Plant….
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 arena for two shows on January 28th…
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 and Economic Development Administrator.
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, slipknot1, superman1, iloveyou1 and monkey In Pensacola…
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 $115 million to move the Main St….
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 in money). What will make sense is…
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 ECUA to help pay for the remaining…
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 Song of the Year at the 2005…
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 felt that Hall had the definite advantage…