Tag: Pensacola
Don Caton replaced his father as city attorney
The insider of control of the Pensacola City Attorney position goes back further than I realized. Don Caton replaced his father, Dave Caton, as the…
Fairchild speaks
Charles Fairchild also addressed the Pensacola City Council to announce the formation of his latest Political Action Committee – “No Boss Mayor.” He tells the…
City Council fails to open hire, for 39 years
The current council-manager system isn’t working. It has become a weak mayor-weak council system. The Pensacola City Council, under the current charter, has two hires,…
Tallahassee Charter is longer
Opponents to the proposed charter appear to be upset that the new city charter is 21 pages….actually it’s 18 if don’t count the cover page…
Important points about Tallahassee City Council
Tallahassee only has five council members, if you include the mayor. Pensacola has ten, including the mayor. The Tallahassee city council members are at-large, meaning…
What was the charter commission charged to do?
Charles Fairchild has a new pet phrase to fight the charter: “Review, not redo.” The insinuation is that the Charter Review Commission overstepped its charge…
Caton video
Here is the video of former City Attorney Don Caton addressing the Pensacola City Council on the charter proposal during open forum. … The Tallahassee…
What is in the proposed charter? Article III
I will try to breakdown the various parts of the proposed charter. Article III – Elected Positions Sec. 3.01 Form of Government * Separates the…
PAC man wisdom
This quote is from another Viewpoint by Charlie Fairchild: “City Hall usually undertakes studies to provide the verification and justification of some heavily biased, expensive…
Once upon a time…
There was a time that Charlie Fairchild, the new head of the PAC against the proposed charter, regularly attacked city government….He labeled it “City Hall”…
Caton upset with blog
A friend called last night to let me know that Don Caton wasn’t too happy with me and this blog for publishing his pension benefits….
“I would run.”
I’ve done an informal poll of teenagers and their parents to find out how the teens would react if they were somewhere they weren’t suppose…
