With no prior notice to the Pensacola City Council, the Escambia County Commission voted to dump the money losing Escambia County Area Transit on the City of Pensacola in exchange for the…
Tag: Escambia Co. Politics
Sherriff produces annual report
Escambia County Sheriff Ron McNesby has produced a high-gloss annual report that’s 52 pages. It looks like a high school yearbook with pictures of his high-priced management team. Each department has its…
County land sale buzz
From a concerned citizen: Can you look into why the county is selling what they call surplus land at the Equestrian Center? The land in question is 18 acres of the Equestrian…
Nothing gets done
The county salary database has now been used over 22,000 times. As much as the county leaders want to complain about how unfair it was for the IN to publish the salaries,…
Record Day for Inweekly.net
Our website – inweekly.net – had the most visitors in single day, 9322, on Thursday. This shatters our previous record by nearly 2000! We received reports throughout the day that newspaper racks…
Charter Government looks better now
Escambia County has repeatedly rejected charter government which has led to individual feafdoms in county government. The county commission and the citizens have no say in the budgets of tax collector or…
$300,000 choices
According to Mark O’Brien’s column, ECAT needs $300,000 to stay in operation two more months. That figure – $300K – has popped up a lot lately. The County Commission gave Sheriff McNesby…
County may cut library funding
As the community tries to improve literacy and low FCAT scores, Escambia County is contemplating cutting its library funding 25% – about $800K to $900K. Meanwhile, the City of Pensacola is staying…
Civic Center bonds tied to bridge purchase?
In response to my Outtakes (NEWEST CURMUDGEON ) on the Pensacola Civic Center bonds, Bill Davison sent in this email. Mr. Davison has been known to misstate the facts, especially when it…
Century terminates code enforcement?
Here is a letter from County Administrator George Touart to Century Mayor Evelyn Hammond about the possible termination of code enforcement in Century. The town had contracted with the county to do…
More on Century
There are people around that remember beyond just last week. The Century-law enforcement-drugs issue has been around longer than the daily newspaper’s articles last week. In June, 2005 when Century Town Council…
More than just smoke
Firefighting in Escambia County is in shambles. You can spin it a dozen different ways. You can pit the paid firefighters union against the volunteers. You can single out certain individuals for…