Dollar General/Cordova Park area
Based on emails posted on the Facebook page-“No to Dollar General at the Corner of Summit and Spanish Trail!!!â€- the rezoning proposal for the site for the store will not come before the Pensacola City Council until March 27. This means the issue will have languished for four months since the mayor’s November town hall meeting before any action is taken on it.
Fallout from Touart’s resignation
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners is scrambling after receiving Interim County Administrator George Touart’s resignation. Larry Newsom has been made the new interim and the BCC is interviewing its selection committee’s top five candidates. However, there is no clear frontrunner, and the commissioners are just as likely to throw out all the candidates as to select from one from the finalists.
Pen Air strokes big check for UWF
On Thursday, Jan. 30, Pen Air Federal Credit Union give $100,000 to support the University of West Florida College of Business. The gift will establish the Pen Air Federal Credit Union Betty M. Petree Endowment for scholarships and program support for College of Business students. Additionally, the Pen Air Federal Credit Union Financial Literacy Boot Camp for UWF students will be created.
Florida politicos favor Jeb over Rubio for 2016 presidential race
The Tampa Bay Times surveyed 124 of Florida’s smartest politicos and found some overwhelming and bi-partisan consensus. The “insiders†included 55 Democrats, 59 Republicans and 10 people registered to no party or to a third party.
Nearly 90 percent of them said Jeb Bush would be a stronger presidential candidate than Marco Rubio. When asked the same question two years ago, 81 percent said Bush would be stronger.
And CNN is reporting that Momma Bush’s spokesman said that she feels she was misinterpreted by the media coverage of her most recent comments about her son.
“Her point is the family feels no entitlement as it relates to the presidency,” said spokesman Jim McGrath.