Watch a county commission or city council meeting and you will see some of the board members scanning their cell phones every few minutes. Then the council member or commissioner types something…
Tag: City of Pensacola
Escambia County: Rape capital of Florida, too
India has attracted international over the rape of a young woman by a gang of men on a New Delhi bus (New Delhi Attack: The Victim’s Story). We’ve got a forcible rape…
Pensacola violence escalates. When will it get its own mayoral press conference?
Probably not the greatest photo op for the mayor. These types of press releases from Pensacola Police Department have become commonplace: Christmas Night Shooting Pensacola Police are investigating two shootings that occurred…
City Goes After Occupy Legal Fees
The city of Pensacola today filed a motion in the United States District Court, Northern District of Florida to reopen the Occupy Pensacola case so that it can attempt to recoup legal…
City Budget Workshops
In a series of workshops next week, the Pensacola City Council will dive into the Fiscal Year 2013 Proposed Budget. Mayor Ashton Hayward delivered his proposed budget to the city council in…
City Attorney apologizes to City
At the end of business (which is 5 p.m. for everyone but the Tick Tock Gang) yesterday, Pensacola City Attorney Rusty Wells sent an apology memo for the citizens of Pensacola to…
ECUA Now Recycling Glass
The Emerald Coast Utilities Authority has added glass and numerous other items to its list of curbside recyclables. According to a release from the utility, customers can begin putting the new items…
Affiliated Baseball Parks – Single A
The naysayers like to make a big deal out of the Pensacola Pelicans aren’t an affiliated team. Of course they can’t be playing in the tiny UWF ball park, that is even…
Donovan/Nobles PAC is formed
It’s Park Yes Stadium No. And here is the website: http://www.parkyesstadiumno.com/ City Attorney Rusty Wells, according to PNJ reporter Jamie Page, has determined the former city councilmen Marty Donovan and Jack Nobles…
CMP 101
The blog has grown beyond Northwest Florida. We are approaching a million page views a month. Some of the new readers have been drawn here because of The Daily Beast and my…
Latest on BP Oil Spill
The oil spill is now 129 miles from the city of Pensacola. Based on the latest projection from NOAA, Escambia County is not anticipating any direct oil impact in the next 48…
Roger Scott Tennis uproar
Donna Suskind, publisher of the local tennis publication First Serve Magazine, is challenging the City of Pensacola’s management of its Roger Scott Tennis Center (Roger Scott Tennis, A Victim of Good Ol’…