National Nurses United, the nation’s largest organization of registered nurses, today expressed dismay and alarm over the federal budget deal announced yesterday, saying it will perpetuate the harmful effects of austerity, especially…
Tag: Main Street
Gulf Power uses ECUA water
Press Release: Gulf Power using millions of gallons of reclaimed water from ECUA Millions of gallons of reclaimed water now are flowing from ECUA to Gulf Power, affirming a partnership that is…
Buzz: Remembering Mike Green
Yesterday ECUA officially dedicated the new Central Reclamation Center, which is a truly impressive complex. During the invocation, ECUA board member Lois Benson briefly mentioned Mike Green watching down from heaven and…
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to…
ECUA upset with IN…and me
At yesterday’s Leadership Pensacola session, ECUA officials made it clear they aren’t happy with the IN. The fact is ECUA is the least open of all our local government agencies. You can’t…
ECUA doesn’t need downtown transfer station
I’ve now heard from more than one source that ECUA officials and, at least, one board member have been talking about placing a downtown transfer station on the site of the current…
Buzz: Moratorium tied to ECUA
The Pensacola City Council will consider today a ban of industrial land uses inside the CRA. What I’m hearing is that this has to do with ECUA’s possible uses for the Main…
CRA 2010 plan: Gateways, Round-a-bouts, Road Diets
The CRA 2010 plan tackles transportation in downtown Pensacola: EAST GATEWAY The East Gateway Improvement Project is envisioned to call attention to downtown for both area residents and beach visitors. Currently, the…
How sad
The News Journal lets groups post articles to its website. There is one from Friends of the Community Maritime Park entitled “Promise made, promise kept: The Main Street wastewater treatment plant will…