Category: Politics
Pensacola Affordable Housing Task Force wraps up work
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola lacks adequate affordable housing, but it may soon have a plan for how best to address the…
How did county government become so callous?
Last week, the Escambia County Commission approved $1.25 million of CARES Act be spent on rapid testing and that County Administrator Janice Gilley initiative a…
Escambia CARES Act posted, sort of
Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley has finally posted her CARES Act plan on the county website–actually its PowerPoint presentation with several blanks and few specifics,…
Rally for Childhood Cancer Researc
Across the world, September is recognized as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Rally Pensacola—an extension of Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research—is partnering with presenting sponsor,…
Escambia County Jail: ‘COVID-Land’
Inweekly interviewed Jessica Gomez, who was released from the county jail recently. She said that conditions in the main jail were unsafe and “unable to…
Presser Notes: Two Storms and COVID make three
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday he’d been keeping an eye on the storms in the gulf — tropical storms Marco…
Escambia lags behind other Florida counties in CARES Act grants
Twelve counties with less than 500,000 residents received over $10 million in the first installment of the CARES Act, including Escambia County, $14.32 million. On…
Charges dropped re: bridge protestor
Attorneys for Jason Uphaus, the Black Lives Matter protester who was nearly run over by an angry driver at the foot of the Chappie James…
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