Category: Escambia County

Hofberger aide Melanie Luna orchestrated a library board shake-up—removing a member, installing her “Barbie,” and mocking job candidates. Records expose it all.

A hero’s exit at PSC, DeSantis torches the Fair Districts map, censored students fight back, and library texts expose a cover-up. New Inweekly is out.

Commissioner’s aide quietly orchestrated the removal of a library board member—while the county was hiring a new library director. Who’s really running things?

Public records reveal a library job candidate met privately with a county commissioner mid-interview. Was the fix in for Christal Bell-Rivera’s six-figure hire?

Escambia County Area Transit is partnering with Feeding the Gulf Coast to host a community resource event, market, and produce sale on Friday, May 15…

Clerk Childers demands First Tee’s donor lists, financials & lawyer bills. First Tee fires back: “We’re not a public agency. We have nothing to hide.”

Records show mayor’s office copied a county commissioner’s aide after the ouster of a library board member mid-director search. Who requested this—and why?

Escambia County honors Terrance Davis—nearly 2 decades of code enforcement, community service & mental health advocacy. May 2026 Employee of the Month.

Escambia commissioners grilled Moreno over library hire fallout. He apologized for “optics.” Hofberger stayed silent when asked to apologize for mocking texts.

Did a county commissioner’s aide and HR director break a hiring policy designed to stop exactly this kind of insider influence? Tonight’s BCC meeting may tell.

Texts. Kennel plans. A Michelin chef. A lawsuit. Possible library fix is exposed—and that’s just the start. The May 7 Inweekly is here.

Escambia County wants YOUR Perdido Key beach stories. Sworn affidavits, photos & videos needed. Deadline: Aug. 28. Your story could shape beach access law.

Florida Chamber grades NW Florida lawmakers: Boyles & Andrade earn A’s, Gaetz gets a B, Salzman pulls a C. See how your reps scored on business votes.

History made at Churchill Downs, a Pensacola clerk lawsuit ignored by the PNJ, NAS Pensacola reopens, and a 2011 hiring scandal with a 2026 echo.

Ashlee Hofberger says she has 300+ public records on library services director hire. She told staff to give them to me, but they didn’t. Will we get them today?

Best of the Coast voting is open. Schools are short $18M. The Hard Rock TIF got rejected. Quint Studer bought a baseball team. It’s all in this week’s Inweekly.

Hofberger finally speaks—but her answers raise more questions than they answer. Read my full response to her radio defense.

Escambia County’s own anti-tampering hiring policy—born from a 2011 scandal—may have been violated three or four times in the Library Services Director hire.

Texts show Escambia officials mocked the library board’s top pick—then blocked her hire. Now a public records mystery raises bigger questions. #Pensacola

Text messages expose how an Escambia commissioner’s office mocked the Library Board’s top pick — and then denied it when pushed by a city council member.