Category: News
Daily backs Spencer and Wu for city council leadership
The Pensacola News Journal has endorsed Councilmen P.C. Wu and Brian Spencer as the best candidates for Council president, which the incoming council will select…
City Council Shuffle
The Pensacola City Council will see four new members seated tomorrow. Winners of this year’s election—including the council’s senior member, P.C. Wu, who ran unopposed—will…
Number of homeless children continues to grow in Escambia, Santa Rosa and statewide
The Florida Department has released its annual report on the number of homeless children in our public school systems. The state of Florida had its…
Letter to the Editor: Stop isolating children with disabilities in nursing homes
ARC Gateway was saddened to learn, through the ARC of Florida, that the state may have institutionalized hundreds of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities…
Life in county complex could be interesting over the next four years
Lumon May and Steve Barry were both appreciative of their families and supporters today when they had their opportunities to speak. Barry, who replaced Kevin…
Fresh Market set to open Dec. 12
Press Release: The Fresh Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: TFM) will expand its presence next month with a new store in Pensacola, marking the company’s 31st store…
Commission Wilson Robertson blasts media as the county’s ‘worst enemy’
Three Escambia County Commissioners were sworn into office today–Lumon May, Steven Barry and Wilson Robertson, who told the packed house that this would be his…
Commission Passes Gas Tax
After nearly four hours the crowd had thinned, but there were still plenty of people left in the gallery to watch the Escambia County Commission…
John Powell enters pre-trial diversion program
Press Release: The Office of the State Attorney announced today that John Powell has entered a Pretrial Diversion Program in his pending case. Powell was…
Critics question the wisdom in constantly rebuilding coastal communities
The New York Times has an article today on the tens of billions of tax dollars that have been spent on subsidizing coastal reconstruction in…
Did BP throw its workers under the bus with settlement
Boston Globe columnist Juliette Kayyem thinks so. Concurrent criminal charges were filed against three BP employees, two of them supervisors on the rig. “The company’s…
Viewpoint: A Time for Political Vision, not Political Division
By George Hawthorne, C.E.O., Diversity Program Advisors, Inc….. SOME, not all, of our elected officials have an inimitable ability to live in denial; and it…
