Escambia County Commissioner Ashlee Hofberger and her $1.4 million architectural arch for Pensacola Beach drew the most attention, particularly her efforts to spin it. After the five-day survey, her conflation of the toll booth replacement with her arch and her ever-changing timeline, the Pensacola Beach Gateway project was pulled from the June 20 agenda and put on hold.
Daily Outtakes: Beach Gateway project pulled from agenda
Beach Gateway Goes Back to the Drawing Board again
Daily Outtakes: Oops, no state funds for gateway arch, and the spins continues
Hofberger opens BCC meeting with written remarks (updated)
Beach Gateway Survey: “Not Rigged” version
The City of Pensacola’s burial marker ceremony and Mayor D.C. Reeves’ press conference made the Top 10 List:
Honoring the Past: Pensacola Unveils Memorial Marker for Miraflores Park Burial Ground
Daily Outtakes: Takeaways from June 17 presser
Other posts:
Tris Weeks: “Broken Masterpiece
Podcast: Andrade discusses budget’s ‘war of attrition’
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