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Tag: Save Our City

How did Marty & Charlie try to defeat the park in 2006?

Posted on July 17, 2010

While working on another a project, I came across the mailer that Marty Donovan, Charlie Fairchild and Save Our City mailed out before the 2006 referendum – See it here. Their misrepresentations…

What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005

Posted on July 16, 2010

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…

Donovan/Nobles petition update

Posted on June 28, 2010

It appears Marty Donovan and Jack Nobles are pursing their petition drive against the maritime park. Anne B. Bennett just dropped off a letter in support of Donovan and Nobles’ effort. In…

CMP 101

Posted on June 22, 2010

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…

Charles Fairchild, secret partner with Donovan & Nobles

Posted on June 22, 2010

I acquired these emails from Save Our City & No Boss Mayor co-founder Charlie Fairchild to an out-of-town web designer. Looks like Charlie, Marty and Jack have been scheming hard while the…

More buzz: Eagan fallout

Posted on October 15, 2009

The word we’re getting off the record from city officials is that the effective fallout of the petition drive is that the City Council must postpone the bond issue for 60 days….

Once upon a time…

Posted on October 9, 2009

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” so as to include city staff and…

He’s BAAAAAAAAACK

Posted on December 31, 2008

Save Our City founder Charles Fairchild is back and is appears to be once again out to derail the Community Maritime Park. His new group is called Citizens for Constitutional Integrity, Inc….

Readers Digest used to fight CMP

Posted on December 11, 2008

The latest “fact” being used to fight the stadium at the Community Maritime Park is this quote from Allen Sanderson, University of Chicago economist that was in a article in Reader’s Digest…

Council bound to build CMP

Posted on December 10, 2008

When the Community Maritime Park referendum was forced on the City by Councilman Marty Donovan and Save Our City, all parties agreed to stand by the results of the vote. I remember…

PNj misses the point on CMP

Posted on June 8, 2008

The Pensacola News Journal ran another negative story on the Community Maritime Park. The information is fairly accurate, but they overlook how responsible Save Our City and Councilman Marty Donovan are for…

Elebash has history against Studer, Park

Posted on January 4, 2008

Retired UWF professor C.C. Elebash, who wrote a viewpoint yesterday calling for the City to not build the baseball park, has a long history of opposing the multi-use stadium and Pensacola Pelican…

Save Our City lives

Posted on January 3, 2008

C.C. Elebash, retired UWF professor and the economic guru for the group formerly known as Save Our City, hasn’t given up his fight to stop a baseball park being built at the…

IN YOUR FACE – Best Year Ever

Posted on December 21, 2006

What were the three top events of 2006? Click here for Talking Points video

Sam Hall joins blogosphere

Posted on October 25, 2006

The Link is Pensacola Underdog. Hall (Candidate for PNS City Council) was part of the Stop Our City brain trust. He also spoke strongly against the CRA prior to waterfront park vote….strangely…

Gulf1.com: What about the economy?

Posted on October 3, 2006

Good old William Cobb continues to wage his battle against the waterfront park and City Hall on Gulf1.com. Here’s his latest tome: What about the economy? by William T. Cobb Now that…

CRA does pay its expenses

Posted on September 25, 2006

During the Community Maritime Park debate, Stop Our City supporters argued that the rest of the city had to pay for services in the CRA district. Today the Pensacola City Council/CRA Board…

Did Save Our City tackle the wrong issue?

Posted on September 22, 2006

For over 18 months, Save Our City had the City of Pensacola and most of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties embroiled in a debate over a waterfront park that would require a…

Willie has all he needs

Posted on September 20, 2006

The Save Our City mentality still exists. Here’s a letter sent to the PNJ: What will be at park, that we don’t already have? One person recently wrote he was against the…

Gulf1: SOC failed because of PNJ picture

Posted on September 13, 2006

Here is why William Cobb (Stop Our City supporter) believes the Community Maritime Park passed – as per his letter posted on gulf1.com: False Representation by William T. Cobb I am concerned…

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