Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons discusses how to make high school football games safer, his first Women’s Blazer Academy and this weekend’s Battle of Pensacola Kickball Game. My opening covers how the…
Category: Business
Tips on hiring a contractor [podcast]
Viewpoint from Chad Edgar, Home Builders Association of West Florida president: The recent news headlines about contractors taking money from clients and not performing the work made me upset and feel great…
Electric bills likely to increase in 2023
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida residents and businesses likely will get hit with higher electric bills in 2023 as utilities continue to struggle with increased costs…
ECUA recycling facility set to open week of Sept. 26
Press Release: ECUA received an update from the supplier providing the two conveyor belts needed to operate the processing lines. They have again delayed the shipping date to today, Sept 2. Based…
Marlette leaving PNJ
This morning, cartoonist and weekly columnist Andy Marlette announced that he is leaving the Pensacola News Journal to focus on his family and cartoon strip. He will also produce syndicated editorial cartoons…
Hear from whistleblowers @ Workplace Promise Institute [podcast]
The Workplace Promise Institute is coming to the Pensacola Beach Hilton Sept. 7-9, with CEUs offered by the UWF. Hear the inside stories from whistleblowers like Tyler Shultz who exposed Theranos and…
Tool Time tax holiday
Florida’s first ever Tool Time Sales Tax Holiday starts Saturday, September 3, and Floridians can save on tools and other eligible items commonly used by skilled trade workers. The Florida Retail Federation…
UWF Haas Center to host national conference
The University of West Florida Haas Center will host researchers from across the nation at the 75th annual Association for University Business and Economic Research Fall Conference: Economic Resiliency from Coast to…
DeSantis funds electric buses for ECAT
Press release: Today, Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated another step in the state’s efforts to modernize public transit and reduce air pollutants caused by diesel emissions. Through the Volkswagen settlement, the Department of…
City, ECUA sanitation rates going up
The City of Pensacola Sanitation Services Department is planning to implement a rate increase for City Sanitation customers, which will help ensure quality sanitation services are provided to residents while accounting for rising…
Community Health has new Pensacola location [podcast]
Community Health Northwest Florida’s Walk-in Care, Primary Care and Pharmacy at 14 W. Jordan St. in Pensacola will relocate on Monday, Aug. 29, to their new patient care home at 1400 N….
Artemis launch eyed as boost to state space efforts
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — With the next step in America’s return to the moon set for Monday, Florida’s aerospace agency views the launch of the unmanned…