Inweekly.net back up

Inweekly.net was down temporarily while our designers work on plug-in issues. It had it back up by noon yesterday.

Continue Reading

Downtown Pensacola safer

The Downtown Improvement Board has continued to invest in technology, partnerships and infrastructure to make the 44-block district safe and secure for those who work,…

Continue Reading

Escambia has third highest percentage of student vouchers

The Escambia County School District had the third largest percentage of students using vouchers for private schools under the Family Empowerment Scholarship program. This is…

Continue Reading

Escambia County public schools didn’t really pick students

When enrollment is broken down for each public school, the Escambia County School District lost students between the falls of 2018 and 2019. The school…

Continue Reading

Global Learning has lost 239 students since it opened

  When the elementary school opened in the fall 2011, Global Learning Academy was hailed as an innovative education facility. Superintendent Malcolm Thomas closed three…

Continue Reading

Move to Amend Silent Vigil, tomorrow noon

Move to Amend press release: Our democracy and many of our people are threatened by hidden funding of overly-conservative causes, candidates and groups! The Supreme…

Continue Reading

Santa Rosa picks up 649 new students, Escambia only 167

  According to the Florida Department of Education, the Escambia County School District is lagging beyond neighboring Santa County in its growth in enrollment. Escambia…

Continue Reading

Update: City of Pensacola cyberattack

Press release: The City of Pensacola’s computer network suffered a cyberattack during the early morning hours of Dec. 7, 2019. The city took immediate steps…

Continue Reading

Blue Wahoos honor heroes of NAS shooting

The Pensacola Blue Wahoos will take the field in 2020 with their city over their hearts. The team announced on Thursday that the Blue Wahoos…

Continue Reading

Escambia District 3 picked up most voters since May 2019

  Escambia County  added 4,046 from May 31, 2019 to Dec. 31, 2019.  The most voters were added to Commissioner Lumon May’s District 3, 1,025…

Continue Reading

Gulf Breeze Zoo wins national conservation award

In January 2019, the Gulf Breeze Zoo added a family of Orangutans and started their “Spirit of Sumatra” conservation program. Recently, the Zoo received high…

Continue Reading

Pensacola High lost 139 freshman over four years, 30.7 percent

Pensacola High lost 30.7% of its 2015-16 freshman class when it calculated its 2018-19 graduation cohort. The district reported 91.2% graduation rate for PHS for…

Continue Reading

Highlights: State of the State

In his State of the State address today, Governor Ron DeSantis encouraged lawmakers to recognize that people are more mobile and will move out of…

Continue Reading

AG Barr reports on DOJ investigation into NAS shooting

Yesterday Attorney General William Barr had a press conference to reported on the Department of Justice investigation into the shooting at NAS Pensacola in early…

Continue Reading

Robinson, Gilley next speakers for CivicCon

The 2020 CivicCon Speaker Series will feature topics like water quality, housing strategies, creating a plan for trees and green scape in a community and…

Continue Reading

Andrade raises $16,500, Hill $9,630, Salzman $1,232

State lawmakers rake in contributions the weeks leading into the legislative session. They aren’t allowed to accept campaign contributions while the session is convened. December…

Continue Reading

Gaetz explains his War Powers vote

In his weekly newsletter. Rep. Matt Gaetz explained his controversial vote in favor of a War Powers resolution. The resolution stated if the White House…

Continue Reading

Escambia County’s Class of 2019 lost 20 percent its freshman-year class.

The Escambia County School District lost 680 students from its 2015-16 freshman class when it came time to calculate the Class of 2019 graduation cohort…

Continue Reading

Graduation rates improve, Escambia still trails surrounding counties

Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday announced that Florida’s 2018-19 graduation rate increased to 86.9 percent, an increase of 0.8 percentage points over last year and a…

Continue Reading

Breaking news: Eddins won’t seek re-election

State Attorney Bill Eddins called Inweekly to say that he has told his staff that he won’t run for another term. His chief assistant state…

Continue Reading