Mike Hill, a candidate for Florida House District 1, issued a press release to announce his intention to repeal portions of FL SB 7026 if elected. He wants to repeal the higher…
Category: Escambia County
Escambia District 2 supports gun reforms
Inweekly had Political Matrix also survey District 2 voters to find out their views on some of the gun reforms have been discussed. Their attitudes were only slightly more conservative than those…
Commissioners to hold shade meeting on ECSO budget appeal
The Board of County Commissioners of Escambia County, Florida will hold a private meeting with its attorneys to discuss the pending appeal before the Administration Commission of David Morgan, Sheriff, Escambia County,…
Inconsistencies found in county land use ordinance
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) found the part of Escambia County Ordinance No. 2017-65 that permits “light industrial uses within the MU-S Future Land Use Category is “not consistent with…
Property appraiser loses Beach tax appeal
The Florida Supreme Court has denied a request by Escambia County Property Appraiser, Chris Jones, that the Court review two recent lower court decisions in favor of Pensacola Beach taxpayers. The ruling…
Grant to design Hollice T. Williams Stormwater Park received
On April 2, Escambia County received a grant award for the Hollice T. Williams Stormwater Park RESTORE Direct Component Pot 1 project from the U.S. Department of Treasury as part of the…
Bots tie up blog
Apparently our reporting has upset someone. Since 10:35 a.m. on Monday, we have been under attack from bots that overwhelmed our server–50,000 “viewers” at the same time repeatedly. The attack was well…
Viewpoint: County cannot run the jail
By Rick Outzen Inweekly publisher –The worse decision in the history of the Escambia Board of County Commissioners was the 4-1 vote in the summer of 2013 for the county to take…
‘Protest Pathetic Doug Underhill’ march tomorrow
By Jennie McKeon INWEEKLY Organizers for the local March for Our Lives events will be marching again Saturday. This time it will be in protest of Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill. On…
And now this: Sheriff Morgan refuses to release homicide details to PNJ because of cartoon
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan is upset over a PNJ editorial cartoon. He has instructed his public relations unit to no longer give direct comment to the daily newspaper, according to an…
Outtakes—Raising ‘Little Monsters’
My column for the March 29 edition of Inweekly: Raising ‘Little Monsters’ Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill disapproved of the March for Our Lives rallies last weekend. In a series of posts…
Chip Simmons prefiles for Escambia County Sheriff
Escambia County Chief Deputy Chip Simmons has prefiled to run for Escambia County Sheriff in 2020. Simmons stepped down as Pensacola Police Chief in August 2015, after a 29-year career with the…
Buy ‘Little Monster’ T-shirt and support domestic violence shelter
Are you a “Little Monster?” Inweekly has come up with the perfect attire for the next Escambia County Commission meeting. Click on your favorite design to order. Net proceeds from the sales will…
Personal attacks on Parkland students increase after rallies
The New York Times reports that personal attacks on the outspoken students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have increased since the March of Our Lives rallies. See Parkland Students Find Themselves…
Panhandle commissioner blames Parkland, Fla. for creating ‘little monsters’
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill broadened his attacks on the students who participated in the March for Our Lives rallies to include the city of Parkland, Fla. He described the accused murderer,…
Underhill calls March for Our Lives teens ‘pathetic’
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill took to Facebook on Saturday morning to announce his disapproval of the March for Our Lives teens. He wrote, “Good morning to all you marchers. You are…
ECSO modifications of interlocal agreement
ECSO Chief Public Information Officer Amber Southard has told us that the mediation is a two-phase process that the ECSO considers the mediation agreement an “agreement in principal” and “then the Interlocal…
Mediation and Interlocal agreements side-by-side
Inweekly has placed the Mediation agreement and the Interlocal agreement drafted by the county side-by-side: Mediation Agreement Interlocal Agreement 1. Board of County Commissioners shall agree to do the following in furtherance of…
Is the BCC-ECSO mediation agreement binding?
Yesterday, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) issued a press release stating that Sheriff David Morgan would not accept the mediation agreement approved the Escambia Board of County Commissioners (BCC). The agreement…
Sheriff releases official statement on budget impasse
From the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office: “The attempt to resolve the budget appeal through mediation appears to have been unsuccessful. “Based on communication after the mediation, the BOCC staff wants to include…
