Status of Maritime Park, Post-Studers

What’s next for the Community Maritime Park? Several questions need to be answered before the city puts the parcels back on the market. 1. Who…

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Local Races Form 850 Bridge Run Series

Bushwacker 5K, Bridge to Bridge 5K, and Double Bridge Run The Pensacola Sports Association (PSA), in partnership with the Capt’n Fun Runners (Bushwacker 5K) and…

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Friends of WFPL to hold ‘Blowout Book Sale’ on Aug. 1

Friends of West Florida Public Library, a non-profit support organization of the West Florida Public Library, will hold a “Blowout Book Sale” on Saturday, August…

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Effort forming to push for open-government protections

Worried that lawmakers and Gov. Rick Scott’s administration are chipping away at Florida’s open-government laws, a coalition of groups is being formed to try to…

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Jeb has double-digit lead in Florida poll

Former Gov. Jeb Bush has “separated himself” from other Republican presidential candidates in Florida, leading all of them by double digits, according to a Mason-Dixon…

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Hayward sends staff on road trip to New York and D.C.

In his latest “Upwords” newsletter, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward said that his Constituent Services team, the group that manages the city’s automated citizen complaint system…

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WCOA hit by lightning

We are waiting to see if engineers can get us on air. We have it fixed in time.

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Quint Studer on ‘Pensacola Speaks’ today at 5 p.m.

Quint Studer will discuss today his decision to withdraw his offers for parcels 3, 6 and 9 at the Community Maritime Park. He told me…

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Mayor goes to Facebook to defend his decision on Studer leases

The media has heard little from Mayor Ashton Hayward since the Studers withdrew their offers for three parcels at the Community Maritime Park. Some might…

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Fountain and Remington take to the air waves on Studer leases

Pensacola’s Chief Operations Officer, Tamara Fountain, was interviewed this morning by Andrew McKay on News Radio 1620. Fountain said Mayor Ashton Hayward and Council President…

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Studer Leases: Negotiation strategy fails, CMPA chair embarrassed

Council President Andy Terhaar stopped by the Inweekly offices. He said he saw yesterday’s press release by the mayor’s office as part of the negotiations….

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Studers’ message to Mayor Ashton Hayward and Council President Andy Terhaar

From: <Quint@studergroup.com> Date: July 23, 2015 at 9:52:07 PM CDT To: Ashton Hayward <ashtonhayward@yahoo.com>, Terhaar Andy <aterhaar@cityofpensacola.com>, “Reeves, James J. Esq.” <jjreeves@bellsouth.net>, John Daniel <JPD@beggslane.com>, Remington Scott <SREMINGT@cphlaw.com>…

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Studer reacts to Hayward rejecting CMPA leases. He withdraws offers.

Quint Studer said tonight the proposed UWF Center for Entrepreneurship, conference center, and child care facility for the Community Maritime Park won’t work after Mayor…

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Mayor Hayward rejects CMPA leases

Mayor Ashton Hayward and Council President Andy Terhaar announced this afternoon they have rejected the leases that CMPA approved for Studers to develop parcels 3,…

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New Emerald Coastkeeper

We received this email: After a lot of hard work and perserverance, Emerald Coastkeeper is up and running! We are stronger now than we have…

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Is $15 minimum wage in the future for Florida workers?

State Senator Dwight Bullard, D-Miami, has filed a bill (SB 6) that would raise Florida’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. This past year, Bullard…

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Bayfront Parkway Corridor Feasibility Study Meeting July 28

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will hold a public kick-off meeting concerning a feasibility study of State Road (S.R.) 196 (Bayfront Parkway) from Tarragona…

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The next neighborhood battle for Mayor Hayward

The residents in the Bay Boulevard neighborhood are fighting to keep the city from vacating land on a bluff on Escambia Bay. The city’s planning…

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Florida political insiders favor Jolly and Murphy

The Tampa Bay Times polled 160 of the state’s political insiders to determine the strongest Democratic and Republican candidates for Florida’s U.S. Senate race In…

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Tweaking of Studer leases begins today

Six days after the Pensacola City Council passed a resolution for the mayor’s office to have an attorney “tweak” the Studer leases approved the CMPA…

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