Santa Rosa officials have sidestepped the volunteer Tourist Development Council to revoke the county’s longtime membership in the state’s leisure industry marketing agency–Visit Florida–prompting a warning from state House Speaker Richard Corcoran.

Telephone con artists are getting more aggressive in finding victims hereabout, even placing calls to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

The money-pit image of Tiger Point Golf Club is well known among taxpayers and officials in the City of Gulf Breeze, which owns the 375-acre property.

Santa Rosa County’s impending quest for an outside economic development consultant will lead officials into a nationwide network of highly paid advisors who often work for both local governments and the companies they seek to recruit as new employers.

Promises, promises.

The County Commission’s recent proposal to pay up to $120,000 for an economic development strategy devised by a private consultant seems to ignore that it paid $25,000 for such a plan in 2013.

Pensacola businessman Jerry Long didn’t waste time in accepting Santa Rosa’s $850,000 offer for his 19 acres on Avalon Boulevard as the prospective site of the new county courthouse.