Category: Politics
Morning radio got real today
This morning, NewsTalk WCOA 1370AM launched my new show, Real News with Rick Outzen, which will air Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. It’s…
BCC has legal opinion – 401(a) legal
Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers last month proclaimed the county’s 401(a) program was illegal and all the commissioners who selected must return to the Florida…
Check out August 5 Inweekly
COVID Déjà Vu Dammit, we thought we had the COVID-19 pandemic under control. People were getting vaccinated, and locally, new cases had dropped to an…
Rogers helped Underhill get an Ethics Commission opinion
The daily newspaper believes that County Attorney Alison Rogers  committed a crime when she didn’t get the Escambia County Commission to vote for her to…
Stop the lynchings
Counter to the daily newspaper’s diatribes, County Attorney Alison Rogers did nothing more than help one of her commissioners get an advisory opinion last March….
HR director tried to throw Bergosh under the bus
Commissioner Jeff Bergosh says a series of emails between former HR director and a claims specialist were done to cover the director’s mismanagement of a…
COVID cycle holding true
We learned last year that COVID cases follow three or four weeks after spreader events. On June 5, 2020, Gov. Ron DeSantis relaxed restrictions and…
Breaking: David Morgan drops out of race
Former Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan has sent an email to his supporting dropping out of the mayor’s race. Following is text of letter delivered…
Escambia COVID cases more than double
The Florida Department of Health reports Escambia County had 1,627 new COVID-19 cases – a jump of 115% over the previous week. The positivity rate…
Breaking: Bus union approves wage agreement
ATU Local 1395 president Mike Lowery shared, “Yesterday, the workers voted on the tentative wage Memorandum of Agreement between ATU Local 1395 and County. The…
Pensacola nominated for two Southern Living awards
Southern Living has announced that Pensacola has been nominated for two categories for The South’s Best 2022 Awards. The South’s Best acknowledges the destinations that…
Inside employment numbers
Sometime you need to look deeper to understand statistics. The unemployment rate for June in Escambia County increased, according to data recently released by the…
Childers has no email, so she creates one to herself
Give me a ticket for an aeroplane I ain’t got time to take no fast train Oh, the lonely days are gone I’ll be right…
Mayor: ‘We need to be focusing on vaccines’
As I reported on Saturday, the COVID pandemic is surging in the wrong direction. Yesterday Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson had a conference call with the…
ATU prez: ‘Pam Childers literally lied’
ATU Local 1395 president Mike Lowery is stunned how County Clerk Pam Childers attacked ATU International Vice President Curtis Howard during the public forum of…
Buzz: Budget director jumps to Clerk
Over the weekend, Inweekly received news that County Budget Director Amber McClure will go to work Clerk Pam Childers after she leaves the county on…
Movement on city skate park
At his Monday presser, Mayor Grover Robinson said he has been in discussion with Interim County Administrator Wes Moreno and county staff about the long-awaited…
Former WCOA host hospitalized with COVID
The New York Times reports radio host Phil Valentine is in critical condition in a Nashville hospital after contracting COVID-19. Valentine aired on WCOA 1370…
Breaking: Mayor promotes Fiddler to city administrator
At his weekly presser, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson announced that he will promote Kerrith Fiddler to city administrator, replacing Keith Wilkins who will step aside…
Don’t tell Pam: ECAT workers-County agree on wage package
After three and a half years of negotiations, ECAT workers worked out pay raises with county administration on Friday, July 23. Upon ratification by ATU…
