Studer Community Institute is working with the City of Crestview to create an over all mission, vision, values and strategic plan for the city. Larry Harris with Mason-Dixon will conduct a survey…
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Florida city wants developers to divulge investors
The Naples City Council is strengthening its ethics ordinance. They want to mandate that real estate developers divulge investors in their projects before council votes. The City of Naples has an independent…
Podcast: Cyberthon 2017
Randy Ramos, Founder/CEO of GBSI, discusses the importance of Cyberthon to STEM education and developing future cybersecurity professionals. The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) – Blue Angels Pensacola Chapter is…
JazzFest hits Top 20
The Southeast Tourism Society has named Pensacola JazzFest a Top 20 Event in the Southeast for April 2017. To be held in historic downtown Pensacola at Seville Square, Pensacola JazzFest 2017 is…
For the love of God: Council President invocation policy challenged
Last week, Pensacola City Council President Brian Spencer announced a new policy regarding the invocations for council meetings. Council members may choose to give the invocation themselves or choose a member of…
City Administrator report for January
The citizens of Pensacola only hear from their city administrator once a month at the Agenda Review. He doesn’t hold town hall meetings. He doesn’t answer questions. He doesn’t put things in…
Supreme Court scuttles challenge to voucher program
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The Florida Supreme Court today rejected a last-ditch appeal challenging the state’s de facto school-voucher program, essentially ending the battle over a program that…
AG Pam Bondi sues Big Tobacco for violating 1997 settlement
Attorney General Pam Bondi today filed an enforcement motion against ITG Brands, LLC f/k/a Lignum-2 LLC (ITG) and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) to enforce the explicit terms of the tobacco settlement…
UWF Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering paid internship program
The University of West Florida Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering launched a new internship program to prepare students to enter professional work in all STEM fields. The need was first…
Criminal Justice Reform: Inmates find a pathway to turn around lives
By Duwayne Escobedo: Phillip Carrier became the newest former inmate to successfully complete the Pathways for Change court-ordered addiction treatment program.’ During the rigorous, 18-month program, his father died, but the 42-year-old…
Japanese New Year Celebration coming to Wright Place Jan. 21
The Japan-America Society of Northwest Florida will usher in the “Year of the Fire Rooster†with its 23rd annual Japanese New Year Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, at the Wright Place…
Pensacola Women’s March, Saturday, Jan. 21
Press release: In a call to reaffirm the core American values of freedom and democracy, Pensacola will add its voice to the Women’s March on Washington along with 300 other sister marches…
Downtown mural dedication tomorrow
On Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 10 a.m., local non-profits Friends of Downtown Pensacola and Foo Foo Festival will join the Downtown Improvement Board in dedicating a newly completed 3,000 sq. ft. mural…
League of Women Voters discuss Pipeline to Prison
Pipeline to Prison: “Resilience: the Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope†Who : League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area, ACLU, Coffee Party, Escambia Youth Justice Coalition and…
If the walls of Hallmark Elementary could talk…
Last week, we learned that the City of Pensacola approved a demolition contract for Hallmark Elementary on the west side of the city. The school served west Pensacola from 1928 to 2012….
Cyberton returns this weekend
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)–Blue Angels Pensacola Chapter hosts CyberThon 2017 at the National Naval Aviation Museum and National Flight Academy on board Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, Jan….
Pensacola Bay ferry service delayed a year
Last week, Gulf Islands National Seashore, City of Pensacola, and Escambia County officials announced the delay of the Pensacola Bay ferry service which had been scheduled to begin this spring. All partners…
Pensacola Police Chief wants to keep his job
Pensacola Police Chief David Alexander told the Pensacola City Council last week he wants to keep his job past his DROP date in May. At the end of his monthly report to…
NPR talks of Ashley Hardaway Theriot
NPR’s Scott Simon spoke of our former writer this morning and how through organ donation Ashley saved the lives of others. “The death of a vibrant young person is a tragedy in…
Suntrust donates $25K to Junior Achievement
Yesterday, the SunTrust Foundation presented a $25k check to Junior Achievement of Northwest Florida. “SunTrust’s generous $25,000 donation to Junior Achievement of Northwest Florida will fund economics and personal finance programming for…