Category: News
Pensacola City Council authorizes mayor to settle the Six-Cent Local Option Fuel (Gasoline) Tax appeal
The Pensacola City Council voted, 5-0, for the mayor to settle the dispute over the city’s allocation of the Local Option Gas Tax. No presentation…
Greater Pensacola Chamber to advocate for Triumph projects [podcast]
Greater Pensacola Chamber Policy Chairman Justin Beck and Todd Thomson, vice president for public policy, appeared on “Pensacola Speaks” to explain why the Chamber will…
Quint Studer: Time management tips [podcast]
Quint Studer gives a preview of his upcoming column in this Sunday’s Pensacola News Journal.
CyberThon offers college scholarships
PENSACOLA – Local high school students pursuing advanced education in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) are now eligible for new funding in…
Pensacola Human Society joins 2017 Tour for Life adoption initiative
Pensacola Humane Society joins North Shore Animal League America’s 2017 Tour For Lifeâ„¢ – the world’s largest national cooperative life-saving mobile pet adoption event –…
IP releases preliminary findings of mill explosion investigation
The findings indicate that an explosive atmosphere was created by a combination of off-gasses normally produced in the pulping process and air introduced to maintain…
Chamber supports proposed panhandling ordinance
The statement was released today: The Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce exists to support the businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs who make up the backbone of…
Kick Butts Day on Saturday, March 11
Santa Rosa County’s Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) are speaking up and taking action against the tobacco industry for the 22nd annual Kick Butts Day…
House looks to clamp down on local taxes
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA A wide-ranging bill that would rein in local governments’ ability to increase taxes narrowly passed the House…
TaxWatch reports features The Bluffs
A new report by Florida TaxWatch, the state’s independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit taxpayer research institute & government watchdog, finds that the growth of high-tech manufacturing is…
City and County have different stories on superfund site
At Monday’s Agenda Review, City Administrator Eric Olson told the Pensacola City Council that Escambia County had requested verbally the city hand over its portion…
Pensacola mayor wants a piece of Triumph pie
Mayor Ashton Hayward doesn’t want the Escambia Board of County Commissioners to be the sole body that decides how the county’s share of the BP…
