Category: Escambia County
Real News 10/14/24: Bergosh, Brahier, Breast Cancer and more
Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses OLF-8 and shares his views on countywide districts for commissioners. Pensacola City Councilwoman Jennifer Brahier recaps last week’s council…
Top News Stories for the week ending Oct. 12
INWEEKLY: Amendment 3 What You Need To Know About Florida’s Recreational Marijuana Ballot Measure If you’ve been paying attention, even a little bit, this election…
Daily Outtakes: Plan B for Pensacola Bay Center. What is it?
Hoteliers are upset over the $90-million plan to use the fifth cent of the bed tax to cover the bonds to renovate the Pensacola Bay…
Top Stories of the Week ended Oct. 5
Readers flocked to these stories. 1. Breaking: PNJ paid print distribution tumbles to less than 5K Readers were shocked to see how far paid subscriptions…
Inweekly: What’s in the October 3 issue
Going Beyond the Screen For the past 12 years, Stamped Film Festival has been a beacon of LGBTQ+ storytelling in the South, offering audiences an…
Tropical Update: Friday, Oct. 4
Escambia County meterologist Scottlin Williams shares the latest: Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Fri Oct 4 2024 For…
Daily Outtakes: Headlines not seen in the PNJ. Here’s why
This week, Pensacola News Journal published an article calling out Escambia County for what it believed was a significant cost overrun on the new Brownsville…
Real News: UWF football; IHMC needs couch potatoes, old ones
Dr. Marcas Bamman has received a $7.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a clinical trial aimed to determine how people…
Daily Outtakes: School sales tax renewal may have trouble
Few people realize that Escambia County Public Schools have a half-cent sales tax that the district wants voters to renew for another 10 years. A…
Sheriff Simmons on Blazer Academy
Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons discusses the sixth Blazer Academy that graduated on Oct. 1. We also talk about the war on drugs and his…
Escambia County confirms Brownsville Library was always $3.1 million project
Kaycee Lagarde, Escambia County’s Strategic Communications Director, discussed the facts surrounding the Brownsville Library on “Real News” this morning. She reiterated the project’s budget was…
Tropical Update – Here we go again (updated)
Listen to WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen” at 7 a.m. to get the latest information. “I have run the models on it this morning….
