Limits on mayor’s spending coming back before Pensacola City Council

Councilwoman Sherri Myers wants to amend the Council Financial Planning and Administrative Policy to put a ceiling on how much the mayor can move around…

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City of Pensacola slow to spend BP grant for Veterans Memorial Park

Through a public records request we got the accounting for the BP grant for the renovation of the Veterans Memorial Park on Bayfront Parkway. As…

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Buzz: Bureaucratic mess leads to new couch being bought before needs of handicapped met

Barbara Albrecht, the president of the Bream Fishermen Association, is upset with the bureaucratic nightmare at Pensacola City Hall. Her group, which supports, develops, and…

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City of Pensacola failed to timely respond to public record requests

In our article “The Upside of Corruption,” I failed to mentioned the State Attorney’s findings and recommendations regarding the Hayward administration handling of public records….

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Blue Wahoos attorney responds to Kerrigan epistle

Scott Remington, attorney for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, has responded to attorney Bob Kerrigan’s letter attacking the team and its owners over their agreements with…

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One voice missing in YMCA/CMPA debate

Other than a three-sentence email to the Pensacola City Council, Mayor Ashton Hayward has been noticeably absent from the debate over how to fix the…

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Stand down, fumbles and Act II this week

Last week was one of those rare weeks when news seemed to come from every direction. We had Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll, the first African-American…

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Another Hayward staged showdown on YMCA and CMP

The stage is set for another melodramatic showdown. This one is on whether the YMCA will be allowed to lease a parcel at the Community…

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Where is Mayor Hayward?

Today, Nate Monroe has a column in the daily newspaper regarding the new YMCA. One sentence early in the article struck me: “But it will…

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City paid The Zimmerman Agency $430K, 84.9 percent of advertising bills

I’ve spent the past two days analyzing the paid The Zimmerman Agency invoices, which total $943,242.43 through Feb. 11. The invoices were received through a…

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Wait, there’s more on The Zimmerman Agency. A second binder?

Another email: Rick, Bill Reynolds asked me to relay to you that we are currently in the process of compiling all Zimmerman records into a…

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What does TZA ‘binder’ really tells us?

Yesterday, Mayor Ashton Hayward and his City Administrator Bill Reynolds released the ‘binder’ that Reynolds says documents the city’s troubles with the ad agency that…

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