Councilwoman Sherri Myers called Inweekly to say City Administrator Eric Olson and CFO Dick Barker got irate when she showed up for a budget briefing with Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy. Apparently city…
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Viewpoint: The City’s Forgotten Panhandling Ordinance
By Christopher J. Lewis In a letter to the editor of the Pensacola News Journal (Support for ban on panhandling, May 20) Pensacola city resident Carolyn Fries begins, “I support the City…
Shreveport reported to be finalist for NBA Pelican team
KSLA TV reports that Shreveport is a finalist to host the New Orleans Pelicans’ affiliate in the NBA’s new developmental league that will be begin play in the fall of 2018. The…
Downtown resurfacing should end in August
Pensacola City Administrator Eric Olson told the City Council at its July 10 Agenda Review that downtown resurfacing will be completed by Aug. 8. One of the most difficult areas, Main Street,…
Mayor Hayward to appeal Bayview Cross ruling
From the City of Pensacola: The Mayor and City of Pensacola, Florida, today will ask a federal court to protect a cross memorial that has stood in a city park for over…
Tanyard residents seek answers
By Sammi Sontag Inweekly At a Tanyard neighborhood meeting held at the Corinne Jones Resource Center Thursday evening, Pensacola City Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn listened to her constituents as they spoke about her…
City flooding issues expand as rain falls
From the Bay Cliff Neighborhood Facebook page. The photo above and this comment was posted yesterday afternoon: “What’s going on here at Shannon and Monteigne? Smells like sewage. I am on my…
City voters want Mayor Hayward to appeal Bayview Cross ruling
The majority of Pensacola voters would like Mayor Ashton Hayward to appeal Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling that the Bayview Cross was unconstitutional and needed to be removed from city property. On June…
ECUA confirms raw sewage caused by City of Pensacola stormwater failure
Inweekly obtained this email between ECUA board member Lois Benson and ECUA Executive Director Steve Sorrell. We had earlier reported that the human waste on Devilliers Street may have been caused by…
City decision may have led to flooding Tanyard neighborhood with raw sewage
The Escambia County Utilities Authority’s Tim Haag reported that the cause of raw sewage overflowing in the Tanyard neighborhood a block west from City Hall was the result of a deluge of…
Reports of human waste flowing in the Tanyard (update)
Dr. Gloria Horning, who lives one block west of Pensacola City Hall on DeVilliers Street in the Tanyard neighborhood, reported late yesterday afternoon, “I’m at the corner of DeVilliers and Zaragossa. The…
Is the City 3-1-1 service punishing critics
Dr. Gloria Horning’s street has flooded. She lives in the 300 block of Devilliers Street, south of the Government Street Stormwater Pond, east of the former site of ECUA Sewage Treatment Plant,…