Category: Escambia County
Vote for Perdido Key and Pensacola in Southern Living poll
Voting for Southern Living’s The South’s Best 2025 Awards is now open, and Visit Pensacola is inviting destination visitors and residents to vote. Current area…
Women Build tops $1 million
Pensacola Habitat for Humanity’s annual 11th Women Build will be a historic one for the affiliate, as this year’s fundraising efforts will help Women Build…
Daily Outtakes: Fish House refinance, D4 racist mailer and Salzman’s spending spree
Some of Pensacola’s most popular restaurants aren’t closing, and their ownership isn’t changing. A Great Southern Restaurants spokesperson last night explained the report of Truist…
Blackface mailer update
Until this week, people have remarked how positive and clean the District 4 County Commission race has been. Then, the Committee to Protect Florida sent…
Escambia County does not have poll managers
Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender wants to warn voters about fake text messages regarding their ballots. The messages are false and have raised concerns from…
Blackface mailer architect paid $50K in defamation case
The architect of the mailer that attacked Walker Wilson for having a “trusted” Black friend last year settled a defamation suit filed by a Santa…
Real News: Books, NIL, Chilean workers and People’s Law
Explore ranked Pensacola as the #4 U.S. destination for book lovers, thanks to the Books By the Bay Festival and Open Books. Scott Satterwhite, co-founder…
PAC paints Walker Wilson black in race-baiting mailer
Walker Wilson is in a very tight Republican primary race for the Escambia County District 4 seat. He faces Buck Mitchell and Ashlee Hofberger. Wilson…
Childers a victim of Florida election laws?
The Pensacola News Journal no longer writes editorials but has a regular rotation of unpaid writers who do it for them. On Saturday, Theresa Blackwell,…
Thank you, Fred Levin
This week the News Service of Florida provided the list of future payments from Big Tobacco to the state of Florida. Fred Levin was the…
Daily Outtakes: Childers continues to retaliate against Lumon May
Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers has become known as a vengeful politician, and her latest attack on Commissioner Lumon May fits the pattern.
Behind the headlines: Perdido Key Beach lawsuit
The condo associations for La Riva III, Portico, Mirabella, Ocean Breeze, the Palms of Perdido, and Windemere have filed a lawsuit to determine whether Escambia…
