When Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May and County Administrator Jack Brown toured the Tanyard neighborhood and the City of Pensacola’s Government Street Stormwater Project on Wednesday, Dec. 14, they and the residents…
Pensacola Wrap-up: week ending Dec. 17
Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May and County Administrator Jack Brown showed Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward how to reach out to neighborhoods when they toured the Tanyard neighborhood impacted by City’s Government Street…
Studer: How to handle being micromanaged
On “Pensacola Speaks,” Quint Studer discussed his upcoming column on how an employee can handle being micromanaged by his or her boss. Step One is hold up a mirror…
Inweekly surveys west Pensacola
Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Pensacola Community Survey was skewed towards the city’s least diverse, more affluent eastern districts. Using the survey produced by the UWF Haas Center, the mayor touts that 69.3 percent…
UWF alumnus Darrell Gooden invests $100,000 in UWF football
University of West Florida alumnus Darrell Gooden, founder of Gooden Homes, has gifted $100,000 to the UWF football program. Gooden’s contribution will help address the growing program’s facility and equipment needs. In…
Mr. Robbins’ Neighborhood brings Santa to Wedgewood
Fred and Tia Robbins’ non-profit organization, Mr. Robbins’ Neighborhood, will host a free community holiday breakfast for the community this Saturday morning All Pensacola families are encouraged to attend the breakfast event….
Bay Center may become Indoor Sports Center
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners appears open to tearing the aging Pensacola Bay Center and replacing it with an indoor sports facility. Well, at least, there are open to having Visit…
Pensacola mayor has not responded to Tanyard violations [podcast]
On “Pensacola Speaks,” Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy said that last week she sent Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward a list of code violations at the Government Street Stormwater Project in the Tanyard neighborhood….
Olson misses the point about Tanyards
Yesterday, Pensacola City Administrator Eric Olson didn’t meet with the residents of the Tanyard neighborhood, but he did meet with City Councilwoman Sherri Myers. Myers said that Olson brought up the Tanyards…
Pensacola City Administrator approved Tanyard equipment working through the night
Yesterday, we had a call on “Pensacola Speaks” from a Tanyard resident near the City of Pensacola’s Government Street stormwater project. Despite complaints from residents about the equipment running on weekends and…
Lobbyists learn to play by new rules
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Advocates for local governments, big business and all other manner of interests touched by Tallahassee crammed into a room Tuesday for the first of…
Commissioner May listens to Pensacola Tanyard residents, Mayor Hayward skips tour
Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May toured the enormous Government Street stormwater pond and listened to local residents’ and business owners’ fears of soil contamination and complaints about round-the-clock work at the project…