Category: Politics
Council president appointed to national committee
Delarian Wiggins, City Council President of the City of Pensacola, Florida has been appointed to the National League of Cities (NLC) 2023 Public Safety and…
Podcast: NAS Whiting Field – Best Small Base in Southeast Region, 2nd in the Navy
Commander, Navy Region Southeast, Rear Adm. Wesley McCall, announced in a November message that Naval Air Station Whiting Field was the region’s top pick in…
Florida Legislature – week ended Feb. 3
No More Concealed Carry Permits: House Speaker Paul Renner on Monday announced legislation that would allow people to carry concealed weapons without licenses – known…
IHMC breaks ground on $30-million facility
The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition ceremonially broke ground today (Feb. 3) on a new $30 million project in downtown Pensacola, setting up…
WCOA celebrates 97 years on the air
WCOA — Wonderful City of Advantages — aired its first broadcast on Feb. 3, 1926 from Pensacola City Hall. We had several guest on the…
Real News: Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023
On March 1, the City of Pensacola will launch an additional payment option designed to make paying for parking in city-owned public parking spaces quick…
Andrade endorses White for State Senate
Sen. Doug Broxson will term out of office in 2024. Several potential candidates have been mentioned, but former State Rep. Frank White appears to be…
North Escambia and Santa Rosa counties receive state grants for broadband
At a press conference in Milton this morning, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the first set of awards through the Broadband Opportunity Grant Program to expand…
Humane Society – True or False
The Pensacola Humane Society is broke. False In 2020, PHS received a $1.2 million bequest. The money was put in securities, and occasionally dividends have…
Presser Notes: Military, Market & Parking
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Port of Pensacola may be in a state of evolution — broadening its portfolio, adding less industrial tenants — but…
Real News: Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023
Attorney Eric Stevenson speculates on why Donald Trump chose to file his lawsuit against Bob Woodward in Pensacola. ABC White House correspondent Karen Travers is…
Pay-by-Text Parking
On March 1, the City of Pensacola will launch an additional payment option designed to make paying for parking in city-owned public parking spaces quick…
Rest of Tuesday, Jan. 31 podcasts
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves covers the Miraflores Park project, Pensacola Police Department and his upcoming trip to Harvard. A three-judge panel in Philadelphia ruled Monday…
God in Government Award
Sheriff Chip Simmons was named the 2023 recipient of the God in Government Award at 46th Annual Governmental Prayer Breakfast on Saturday. The breakfast was…
Road closure near Plaza de Luna
A section of South Jefferson Street near Plaza de Luna will be closed temporarily on Monday, Jan. 30 and Tuesday, Jan. 31 for the completion…
The rest of Monday podcasts
Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition will break ground Friday on its new research center, which will be built on the former site of…
Podcast: Pensacola Sports 69th Annual Awards Banquet – Feb. 22
Many of the Pensacola area’s top athletes and teams will come together for a night of sports celebration on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at Sanders Beach…
DIB hires new events director
The Downtown Improvement Board has named Cailin Feagles Director of Operations and Events. Feagles, on the job since early January, will oversee the popular Palafox…
Children’s Trust meets today 3:30 p.m.
Escambia Children’s Trust Grants Committee Meeting – Part 3 of 4 January 30 – 3:30 p.m. Pensacola State College Building 11, 1000 College Boulevard Zoom…
Pensacola prepares to dig Into former burial ground
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Soon, a community advisory group will begin to explore a recently discovered burial ground in Pensacola’s Miraflores Park. The group’s work…
