by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly With Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson out of town, his weekly press conference featured a guest stand-in Monday: Pensacola City Council President Andy Terhaar. After knocking out a couple…
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SCAPE: ‘Another Transformative Moment’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Prior to the plan’s proper unveiling Monday evening at The Rex Theatre, the Pensacola City Council was offered an early-morning glimpse at a proposal for the downtown core…
Hill Supporters: ‘Fake News!’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly In a show of support for embattled state legislator Rep. Mike Hill, a group of protestors spent Saturday afternoon on the corner of Palafox and Garden streets in…
YMCA Deal Get the Green Light
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Changes are afoot across northeast Pensacola’s recreational landscape. The city of Pensacola is moving ahead with a proposed soccer complex off of Langley Avenue, while the YMCA of…
Town Hall: Y swap questioned
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly One topic dominated the city of Pensacola’s District 1 town hall Wednesday evening at the Vickery Community Center: the potential land-and-services swap between the city and the YMCA…
Roundabout by the Bay
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Designed with traffic flow and safety in mind, the planned roundabout at the foot of the Pensacola Bay bridge will dramatically alter the existing landscape. No longer will…
Presser: Water bottles and drive-bys
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly There was considerable ground to cover Monday morning during his weekly press conference, but first Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson needed a drink of water—from his shiny new, blue…
What will happen to Pensacola’s Climate Change report?
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Last year, the city of Pensacola’s Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Task Force delivered a report outlining various efforts that could be made to address the effects of climate…
Prof. Andrade’s Guns and Money 101
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Rep. Alex Andrade knew it was going to be a tough evening. The District 2 Republican was sitting in the Brownsville Community Center for a post-legislative session town…
Officials speak out on gun violence
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Following another shooting Monday in a string of shootings in recent weeks in the Pensacola area, local officials joined with victims’ family members Wednesday to implore people with…
Gaetz: Hill, Mueller, Offshore drilling
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Following his question-and-answer session with attendees of his Pensacola town hall on Saturday, June 1, Congressman Matt Gaetz took a few questions from local press. On State Rep….
Leftover Gaetz ‘milkshake’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The ‘milkshaking,’ of Rep. Matt Gaetz, (R-FL), as he exited a Pensacola town hall event, became that day’s predominant headline for the Northwest Florida congressman, but the event…
Presser Notes: $CAPE, Clinics and … Mike Hill
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly City of Pensacola officials are exploring the concept of refinancing debt associated with the construction of Community Maritime Park in order to finance future downtown projects, and also…
Mike Hill: Memorials, W&L
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly On May 23, Rep. Mike Hill spoke in Pensacola about the recently wrapped legislative session in Tallahassee. While the hard-right Republican state legislator did not see any of…
Mike Hill Leftovers, Part 1
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly On May 23, Rep. Mike Hill spoke in Pensacola about the recently wrapped legislative session in Tallahassee. While the hard-right Republican state legislator did not see any of…
Presser notes: Another Hire, Too Many Overlays and the Y-Deal
By Jeremy Morrison In addition to announcing the hiring of the city’s new assistant administrator, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson also spoke about a forthcoming land-and-services deal with the YMCA of Northeast Pensacola,…
Eight vie to be asst. city administrator
By Jeremy Morrison The city of Pensacola is looking for an assistant city administrator, a lieutenant of sorts for City Administrator Chris Holley. More than a hundred individuals applied for the position,…
City’s mission: ‘Highest quality of life for all citizens’
Inweekly had reporter Jeremy Morrison cover the city’s visioning workshop last week. By most accounts, it was like trying to manage a box of kittens, but the process yielded a draft mission…
COW: Chewing on Public Safety
Escambia Public Safety Suffers from Leadership, Communication Issues BY Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly After digging into Escambia County’s Public Safety Department, ombudsman Janice Kilgore found an atmosphere where it appears poor leadership and…
Mother blames son’s death on EMS’s ‘lack of interest’
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly As Escambia County awaits the conclusion of a Florida Department of Health investigation regarding its Emergency Medical Services, some residents are reflecting on their own experiences receiving assistance…
