By Duwayne Escobedo, Inweekly WEAR and WKRG last weekend reported “alarming†violence at Workman Middle School between two eighth grade boys. Both TV stations said a 14-year-old black student flew through the…
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Bay Bridge Update:Traffic Flow a Priority Across Bay [see phases]
By Duwayne Escobedo Inweekly Susan Woolf is already in the process of moving from Gulf Breeze to Pensacola to avoid future traffic snarls during the construction of the new six-lane Pensacola Bay…
Locals concerned about war on media
By Duwayne Escobedo President Donald Trump and his administration have declared war on the media. This war includes banning major news organizations critical of his presidency from a White House briefing, vowing…
Save Carpenters Creek Town Hall: Commissioner shows, Pensacola mayor MIA
By Duwayne Escobedo Inweekly George Sanders recalled as a 5-year-old boy learning to swim on Carpenters Creek. The 80-year-old said there were four crystal clear swimming holes to choose from. “There were…
CIE rebrands as Co:Lab
By Duwayne Escobedo FloridaWest revealed a new name and new branding Wednesday for its Gulf Coast Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship or CIE for short. It’s new name is Co:Lab and like…
First phase of Olive Road work to finish in February 2018
By Duwayne Escobedo Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson remembers seeing students trudging through the ditches along Olive Road to get to Ferry Pass Middle School. “I thought, ‘This is ridiculous,’†the District…
Pensacola plumbers fight to be heard by mayor over ‘terrible and corrupt’ utility practices
Larry Downs Jr. claims that city-owned Pensacola Energy and its director Don Suarez are trying to put private local plumbers out of business, but he can’t get Mayor Ashton Hayward or City…
Tanyard Update: County checking Shortleaf, more help on the way…maybe
Escambia County Administrator Jack Brown told Inweekly he is sending county code enforcement and environmental officials to the Shortleaf borrow pit to confirm the dumping of alleged contaminated dirt from the City…
Blount Property a Blank Slate
By Duwayne Escobedo One of the big questions that popped up about city plans to develop 15 to 20 workforce homes on the 2.65 acre site of the old Blount school property…
FloridaWest Recognizes Fluid Metalworks
By Duwayne Escobedo Fluid Metalworks was recognized by FloridaWest, Escambia County’s economic development arm, for creating high-paying manufacturing jobs and for providing job training in Pensacola. The company, which started in April…
Y opens doors to media tour
By Duwayne Escobedo Less than five days until it opens at 5 a.m. Monday to its members for the first time, the Pensacola Y gave media a sneak peak of the new…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions bullish on Trump
By Duwayne Escobedo Ever since George W. Bush won Florida by a razor thin margin in the 2000 election, Republicans believe Northwest Florida must not be overlooked in the presidential race. Republicans…