Today, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity announced that the Pensacola area’s private sector employment grew 4.2 percent (+6,800 jobs) over the year in March 2023. The industries gaining the most jobs…
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Palafox Market South coming May 13
Palafox Market is expanding its popular Saturday farmer’s market into a new area of Palafox Street in Downtown Pensacola starting May 13, and the Downtown Improvement Board has invited local farmers and…
Buzz: Belmont Hall moving to Port
Last year, the PNJ reported on Jordan Yee and Alistair McKenzie building a food hall and multi-purpose outdoor area in the parking lot across from the SCI Building on Garden Street. Belmont…
Six deepest pockets of poverty [podcast]
Eight years ago, the Studer Community Institute published a map showing the pockets of poverty in Escambia County based on the 2014 census data. Inweekly asked the UWF Haas Center to update…
Valentino fought for public beach easement in the 2000s
Former Escambia County Commissioner Gene Valentino told Inweekly that tried to get county staff to get a declaratory judgment concerning the 75-foot public beach easement after he took office in 2006. “It…
Expect TSA delays, starting April 24
Pensacola International Airport travelers are encouraged to arrive at least two hours early to go through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint starting Monday, April 24, when TSA will begin replacing baggage screening…
More on latest attack on Disney
DeSantis Ratchets Up Disney Fight By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Escalating his attacks on Walt Disney Co., Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday announced plans to revoke changes…
Insolvencies hit policyholders in wallet
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — State insurance regulators last week signed off on a plan that will lead to policyholders throughout Florida paying extra on their bills…
Podcast: Waverly, City moving ahead
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves shares the latest update on the Waverly on Garden Street. The grocery store and apartments may be the first phase as the city works on timelines for street…
Breaking: Banks indicted
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Matthew Banks, 40, of Pensacola, Florida, was indicted by an Escambia County grand jury charging him with Racketeering (Count 1), Aggravated White Collar Crime (Count 2), Organized Fraud (Count…
UWF College of Business maintains prestigious accreditation
The University of West Florida College of Business has earned re-accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, known as AACSB International. AACSB International is the largest and most-recognized global accrediting…
Sheriff launches Operation Brownsville (not Good Neighbor, oops)
By Tom St. Myer Gun violence dominated the public forum discussion, but measures put in place to improve Brownsville as a whole took center stage during the Escambia County gun violence roundtable…