The blog had a solid month in February. Both total visits and unique visitors were up, 55 percent and 61 percent respectively. The statistics are only slightly lower than February 2012, which…
Tag: Pensacola
Poll shows uncertainty in direction of Pensacola city government
Nearly five years after Pensacola residents voted to change their form of city government, few believe that the city is going in the right direction, according to a recent telephone poll by…
City Holds Two Public Meetings Regarding 2015 Budget
The City of Pensacola welcomes the community to a public meeting to provide an opportunity to learn more about the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget. There will be two meetings. Details below: FIRST…
Blankets allowed, moratorium on any other changes to Pensacola homeless laws
The Pensacola City Council approved Councilwoman Sherri Myers’ ordinance amendment to allow people to cover themselves with blankets in city parks. However, when it came to dealing with the other “homeless ordinances, 
Pensacola City Council has a busy night set (update)
The Pensacola City Council meets tonight. They have a full agenda. Here is what happened at their agenda review meeting: Homeless Blanket Debate Round 2 The Pensacola City Council voted, 4-3, to…
Town Hall meeting on ST Aerospace, Feb. 25
City Holds Public Meeting Regarding ST Aerospace Mobile, Inc. Project WHAT: The City of Pensacola welcomes the community to a public meeting to provide an opportunity to learn more about the ST…
INYR: Wall Street, FSU president buzz, fish hatchery and the state, and Sheriff David Morgan
We have a full line-up for IN Your Head Radio today. We have at 11:05 Mary Kissel, Wall Street Journal editorial board member & host of OpinionJournal on @WSJLive. We will discuss…
Roy Jones, Jr. wants to be mayor of Pensacola
Pensacola’s favorite son and boxing legend, Roy Jones, Jr., plans to run for mayor of Pensacola, according to BoxingScene.com. Jones, age 45, is the first former middleweight champion to win a heavyweight…
Buttercup on the Pensacola City Council agenda for Feb. 27
Buttercup’s owner Laura Kirkman wrote to me about the next Pensacola City Council meeting: I just wanted to let you know that Buttercup, the pot-belly pig, is slated to be on the…
INYR: Wounded Warriors, Fallout from PNJ fish hatchery article and inside Tallahassee
We got Buddy James coming on the show at 11:35 am to make a big announcement on his efforts to build a car for Wounded Warriors to drive at Bonneville Speed Week….
How City of Pensacola public records request system works
On Feb. 4, I sent City Communications Director Tamara Fountain a request: We are looking into doing a story on the city’s public record system. I would like to come over to…
Maybe Pensacola City Council should put fish hatchery on the ballot
Mayor Ashton Hayward’s proposal to lease Bruce Beach for a $1 a year for 50 years and allow a fish hatchery to be built in the city’s urban core has become a…
Task force on homeless established by Pensacola City Council
The Pensacola City Council did pass a resolution at its Feb. 13 meeting to establish an 11-person task force to “tweak” the three ordinances recommended by Mayor Ashton Hayward and passed by…
Buzz: Homeless advocates expected to show in numbers at Pensacola City Council meeting
I spoke with Rev. Nathan Monk yesterday afternoon after our interview on IN Your Head Radio. The minister who has been an advocate for the homeless for years said that he expected…
Outside counsel on airport concession opinion paid $376K by mayor over past two years
When the mayor’s administration wanted to get an outside legal opinion on whether the city council could extend Varona’s food concession lease at the airport while the city goes through another RFP…
INYR: How to make Pensacola more compassionate, GOP chances in governor races, Protect Our Defenders
On IN Your Head Radio, we will have Rev. Nathan Monk to talk about his recommendations to make the city of Pensacola more compassionate towards those less fortunate. He will be on…
Hayward’s no-blanket ordinance backlash: Pensacola called Most Horrible City on the Planet
On Broward/Palm Beach New Times blog, Chris Joseph criticized today Pensacola for its no-blanket ordinance: “A Florida City Made It Illegal For Homeless People to Cover Themselves With Blankets.” Here is the…
City attorney gets ‘independent’ opinion on airport food concessions lease
The Pensacola City Council contemplated last month extending the current least of the city’s airport food concessions vendor, Varona’s, for the time necessary for Mayor Ashton Hayward to issue new RFP and…
Rev. Monk petition on no-blanket petition goes viral
This is truly amazing. The change.org petition that Rev. Nathan Monk started two weeks is just 33 votes shy of 10,000 signatures. You have to laugh at the attempt by the Mayor…
Rev. Monk met with Cosson, Fountain…not Mayor Hayward or Castille
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward said last Friday in his ‘Upwords’ that he will support changes to his homeless ordinances the city council passed last year. He said that his change of heart…