Archive for November 19th, 2008

Airport hotel deal hiccups

As it was revealed today, developer Jim Cronley and cohorts were right about the airport property being under-appraised.  I’m not sure how or why this was kept under wraps, but City staff had two other appraisals valuing the airport property at $7 million and $7.1 million, substantially higher than the $6.4 million appraisal discussed at committee [...]

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Wilson Robertson’s thank you ad

Gracing the front page of my PNJ.com this morning was the ad you see to your right (I say my PNJ.com because it’s a rotating ad and you may or may not see it), a “thank you” to Escambia County from the recently-elected District 1 Commissioner.  As you can tell from the disclaimer at the bottom [...]

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On the airport hotel deal

We have spoken about this deal several times over the past few days. Today, Mark O’Brien has his thoughts up over at the PNJ.  After digesting the issue — particularly the comments at the City Council’s Enterprise Operations Committee on Monday — Progressive Pensacola supports this deal and urges the full Council to support it on [...]

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Goings-on, 11.19.08

In addition to Superintendent Malcolm Thomas, three School Board members were sworn in last night:

Linda Moultrie (District 3), who defeated Rev. LuTimothy May in a special election triggered by the resignation of Claudia Brown-Curry.  Moultrie will fill the remaining two years of Brown-Curry’s term, and the seat will be back up for election in 2010.
Patty [...]

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