Category: Politics

Escambia County Public Schools opens the 2023-24 school year on Thursday, Aug. 10. Students may find few books in their classroom libraries and limited selections…

Real News with Rick Outzen – Eric Stevenson has a daughter in PHS IB and a son who graduated from the program and took the…

This morning, the News Journal reported on its website that the FBI is investigating how 60,000 text messages from Commissioner Jeff Bergosh’s personal cell phone…

On Tuesday, Aug. 1, Ed Spears, the City of Milton’s economic development director, filed a complaint alleging that City Clerk Dawn Molinero created a hostile…

Arrests Made in Antisemitic Vandalism Pensacola Police investigators have made multiple arrests in the case involving multiple acts of vandalism. Most of the incidents involved…

From the Pensacola Liberation Center: Within the last two weeks, two local Jewish centers have been vandalized, their windows smashed with swastika-covered bricks. Now, the…

Early this morning, I received texts that the Escambia County School Board had voted on July 31 to not offer AP Psychology at the IB…

The Port of Pensacola has been awarded an additional $2.625 million in state funding for the Maritime Center of Excellence, marking the final funding piece…

Pensacola Medical Examiner District has the state’s highest per capita opioid death rate. The district includes Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton counties. To warn…

United Way of West Florida is introducing a new funding opportunity designed to build capacity of nonprofits in our community. This fall, United Way of…

On Monday, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach) sent out a request for campaign contributions. He wrote, “A Super PAC being run by the Lincoln…

Pensacola Beach, Perdido Key Celebrate First Sea Turtle Hatches of the Season – Escambia County is pleased to celebrate the first sea turtle hatches of…

Skanska USA lost its federal appeal in its attempt to limit the liability for damage caused to the Pensacola Bay Bridge, personal property and the…

1. Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves this morning opened his weekly presser with Police Chief Eric Randell addressing the recent shootings and the wave of antisemitic…

Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May discusses the recent shootings and health care for the E Street area after Baptist Hospital leaves. Commissioner Robert Bender recaps…

As I posted earlier, Inweekly has covered the rise of gangs in Escambia since 2007. We have also reported on the illegal guns in our…

In October 2007, Sheriff Ron McNesby refused say to Escambia County had a gang problem. We quibbled over whether the local groups – Ast.-N-Jackson, Haynes…

On my radio show yesterday, Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May confirmed that he had heard many of the same rumors of a gang war brewing….

From 2010 to 2011, Inweekly had a popular history column done by Maxwell Chase, who would answer questions from readers. Dear Maxwell, I heard that…

Robin Reshard and Jamin Wells wrote a historical obituary for Leander A. Shaw as part of the News Journal’s “Righting the Past” series. In April…