Deluna Fest is still more than two months away and just to build even more anticipation, the Deluna team is offering free movie nights featuring some of the musical acts you can’t…
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Candidate Breakfast
On Saturday, July 28, there will be a candidate breakfast at Woodham Middle School Gymnasium from 8-11 a.m. It’s not a debate or forum. Candidates will have tables in the gym and…
NOLA leaders: Our city wants a daily printed paper
Twenty-two members of the Newhouse family, which owns the Times-Picayune, received this letter yesterday. It’s signed by Archie Manning, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Wynton Marsalis, Cokie Roberts and others. Nearly a half…
State covers up TB epidemic
The Palm Beach Post has reported that the Center for Disease Control had a serious warning for Florida health officials in April: A tuberculosis outbreak in Jacksonville was one of the worst…
Unbelievable week on blog
The first seven days of July are double the unique visits, 2.33 times greater visits (5125 visits per day) and 3.11 times more page views than July 2011. Whatever is happening in…
What you may not know
The cover of the Game Changers issue of the Independent News is a real puzzle containing the names of all the 2012 Game Changers. See if you can find all the names,…
New Zac Brown video
An animated, guitar-shredding, big game hunting robot stars in the latest Zac Brown Band video for “The Wind,” directed by Mike Judge:
Facebook – CNN team up with Election APP
Facebook announced today that it will be teaming up with CNN to provide interactive election coverage. Â Facebook users will be able to commit to voting, endorse candidates, and share their views through…
Mean Streets of Pensacola
Quint Studer, co-owner of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and founder of the Studer Group, stopped by the office this morning. We talked about the Memorandum of Understanding with the CMPA and City…
Escambia County Finalist for Florida’s Top Teacher Award
One of five finalists for Florida’s top teacher will soon be named the 2013 Macy’s/Florida Department of Education Teacher of the Year. This year’s winning teacher will be announced in front of…
Eastern Gulf Lease Sales
Lease sales 225 and 226. Those are the ones to watch. Those are the sales in the Easter portion of the Gulf of Mexico off of Florida’s coast. On June 28, U.S….
Richard Outzen Sr. Sandwich Tour
On July 1, I began on Facebook my inaugural Richard Outzen, Sr. Sandwich Tour on some of the best sandwiches offered in the greater Pensacola area. My father loved sandwiches. In his…
Beach traffic continues to improve
The vehicle count for the Bob Sykes Bridge at Pensacola Beach continues to show improve over 2011 and 2010: 2012 Fri, 7/6: 16809 Sat, 7/7: 24304 Sun, 7/8: 19022 TOTAL: 60,135 2011…
Kickstarter: Back to the Bees
By Stephanie Sharp… There’s no denying the charm of East Hill Honey. Local, sustainable, healthy and organic raw honey? All the buzzwords are working in the Van Horn family’s favor. The budding…
The God Particle is in the Details
by Bobby White… If you’re anything like me, you’ve been hearing a great deal about the “God particle†for the last week and a half. My interest was piqued when, at a…
Farnborough International Air show means something this year
Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Greater Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce are in England for the biggest aerospace event in the world. This isn’t the first time Escambia County has attended, but…
Kudos to PNJ
The Florida Society of News Editors annually honors the best in daily newspaper reporting. Our daily competes in Division C for daily newspapers with circulations under 50,000. The PNJ did well in…
Reconnect Disconnect
By Jeremy Morrison… Today’s meeting at Pensacola City Hall was billed as a Complete Streets Workshop, but the primary issue on everyone’s mind was much more specific. After a broad presentation by…
Workshops Offered on August 1
The Small Business Development Center at the University of West Florida (401 E. Chase Street, Suite 100) is presenting a Brown-Bag Lunch on Wednesday, August 1, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. entitled…
Pensacola Voice misses Dixon story
The Pensacola Voice is the area’s oldest African-American owned newspaper. It’s front-page cover story for the July 5 edition is “A.A. Dixon Charter says School Can Do More.” I picked up thinking…