Category: Politics

On Nov. 13, 2018, the Escambia County School Board approved the district’s Strategic Plan 2018-2019 that set a goal that the district would increase the…

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) investigators charged four individuals after an investigation involving the theft of thousands of oysters from Pensacola Bay Oyster…

Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan yesterday told the media that he doesn’t see the need for special regional task force on gun-related crimes, which Mayor…

The News Services of Florida reports that suspended Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Maddox admitted guilt Tuesday to three fraud charges in a “pay-to-play” bribery probe….

Joe Biden still leads the Democratic presidential field among Florida Democrats after last week’s debates, according to the latest Inweekly/Political Matrix poll. Biden leads with…

Inweekly reviewed the West Florida Regional Library’s newspaper archives and found the July 2012 and July 2019 had the same number of gun incidents reported…

Both Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan and Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson have told the PNJ that they won’t participate in the joint federal-city task force to…

The last time Escambia County had a multi-agency task force targeting gun-related crimes was seven years ago. Sheriff David Morgan announced the “crime response team”…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Members of the community organization Dream Defenders publicly staked out its position on the city of Pensacola’s response thus far to…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola is partnering with the United States Attorney’s Office to form a task force purposed with addressing gun…

Cervantes Street has a new crosswalk that stops traffic for pedestrians to cross the street safely from a multi-residential housing. Before you celebrate, the crosswalk…

The traffic shift for U.S. 98 eastbound traffic (Pensacola to Gulf Breeze) to the new Pensacola Bay Bridge is scheduled to begin Sunday evening, Aug. 4…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola’s Environmental Advisory Board will be looking into exactly what chemicals are used to care for municipal athletic…

According to Col. Mindy Young, Escambia County School District is down to 13 candidates in training to be campus security officers–a drop from the 18…

In partnership with Ryan and Ellis Group at Merrill Lynch and South Market, Feeding the Gulf Coast will be hosting a happy hour at the…

Government officials can always find money for what the items they want to fund. Santa Rosa and Okaloosa school districts have allocated the funds to…

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas defended his rollback of the millage rate to the Pensacola News Journal saying the revenue cut couldn’t have improved teachers’ salaries. Thomas…

State Rep. Mike Hill has deleted his controversial Twitter account, @MikeHillFL. Hill had blocked several journalists, including Andy Marlette and me, from seeing his tweets,…

Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas told WEAR TV that out of the over 100 applicants only 18 passed the screening process to be…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly With Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson out of town, City Administrator Chris Holley fielded the weekly press conference Monday morning. The administrator…