Category: Business
MIT Venture Mentoring Service helps with local entrepreneur effort
This summer, the Pensacola Entrepreneur Initiative conducted a survey of area entrepreneurs and stakeholders asking for ways to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Greater Pensacola…
Gallery Night cancelled
PENSACOLA, FL – Oct. 18, 2019 – Due to the extreme weather from tropical storm Nester expected to affect the Pensacola area this evening, tonight’s…
Women’s Entrepreneurship Week panel next Wednesday
Pensacola, FL, October 18, 2019 – Be inspired and hear practical advice as female founders discuss the obstacles and successes they’ve encountered on the path…
Buzz: ECUA pick turns down job
The sources have shared that Rebecca Shelton, the ECUA board’s pick to be next executive director of the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, has turned down…
Bye Bay Center; Hello Sports Tourism?
A project first proposed two years ago that involves constructing a sports complex and replacing the Bay Center in downtown Pensacola is back on the…
Disrupt HR on Oct. 23
IMS ExpertServices will host the inaugural DisruptHR event in the Pensacola region 5:30-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the Grainhouse venue, located at Perfect Plain…
Gaetz: Can the Gulf Coast triumph? Yes
Viewpoint BY DON GAETZ Northwest Florida has taken it hard in the gut from the forces of nature and the folly of man. The Deepwater…
Visit Pensacola Prez packs bags for St. Pete/Clearwater
Steve Hayes, President of Visit Pensacola announced today he has accepted the position of President & CEO of Visit St. Pete/Clearwater in Pinellas County. “I…
More presser notes: marinas, ice
Politics of Public Marinas Last week, the Pensacola City Council approved a lease for the area known as the Pitt Slip, which includes a marina….
Pensacola Entrepreneur Initiative partners with MIT
PENSACOLA: This summer, the Pensacola Entrepreneur Initiative conducted a survey of area entrepreneurs and stakeholders asking for ways to improve the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Greater…
Looking for IP’s Monster Under the Bed
Following lengthy criticism of local press coverage concerning the environmental impacts International Paper’s operation has on Perdido Bay, a pair of Escambia County commissioners are…
Underhill uses special district vote to push his anti-ECAT agenda
PENSACOLA: Last night, WEAR TV made it seem that the dissolution of the Special District for ECAT would amount to the county taking control of…
Workers protest county takeover of ECAT
PENSACOLA – On the eve of the Escambia Board of County Commissioners’ Oct. 3 meeting, Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) workers today will hold a…
More thoughts on IP environmental issues
PENSACOLA: This week, I received this from John Nixon of Phenix Environmental Response, LLC in response to our article “Can IP Lower Environmental Bar?” Nixon…
Should FDEP cut IP a break?
PENSACOLA–Following the explosion at the International Paper mill in Cantonment in 2017, Jackie Lane began to notice something different in Perdido Bay. “It just immediately…
Pensacola nears Pitt Slip deal
PENSACOLA–After nearly an hour of discussion during its agenda conference Monday, the Pensacola City Council appears ready to move on the leasing of the piece…
Concerns raised over International Paper bond hearing omission
PENSACOLA–The exchange, hidden within the confines of a TEFRA bond hearing, was so surreally weird as to be absurd. It involved a back-and-forth with Escambia…
Escambia trails other Panhandle counties in annual earnings per resident
Escambia County ranked 29th among counties in Florida by annual earnings per resident, according to data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau in August, according…
Andrade ask Verizon to meet with city officials
State Rep. Alex Andrade shared this letter with Inweekly: 9/12/2019 Courtney Barnard, Verizon Wireless State Government Affairs 899 Heathrow Park Ln Lake Mary, FL 32746…
Economic impact of UWF football
An economic impact analysis completed by the Haas Center at the University of West Florida shows the 2018 football season generated an estimated $9.7 million…
