Category: Politics

Yesterday’s county budget workshop brought to light the financial challenges for Escambia County in the aftermath of the April flooding and the jail explosion. County…

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Jr. was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for his Feb. 12 conviction of fraud, bribery and…

Escambia County Budget Director Amy Lovoy told the Board of County Commissioners this morning at the budget workshop that the costs of the April 29-30…

At dusk on a hot humid night five years ago, a beat-up red van drove onto the front yard of the large two-story, ranch-style house…

I have been fortunate to work with some very talented writers, designers and editors over the 15 years: Duwayne Escobedo, Christine Born, Tony Baker, Nick…

I find out it hard to believe that our weekly newspaper has survived for 15 years. In the early years, we weren’t as mature as…

Longleaf C&D Disposal Facility began accepting waste the fall of 2006. In just two years, monitoring wells detected problems with the groundwater –vinyl chloride, aluminum,…

Since “A Shame Before God” was published, several residents in the Wedgewood, Rolling Hills and Olive Heights neighborhood have shared stories about growing up there….

Escambia County’s RESTORE Advisory Committee Chair Bentina Terry and Pensacola City Administrator Colleen Castilee will present at a public workshop, hosted by the City of…

The Escambia Board of County Commission chambers were packed yesterday with residents from the Wedgewood community. The public forum normally lasts only 30 minutes. Yesterday…

Commissioner Gene Valentino has added to tonight’s agenda a recommendation that there be a wholesale review of the previously enacted pit ordinances and current department…

City Communications Administrator Tamara Fountain called to further explain the city’s survey that will be conducted by the HAAS Center for Mayor Ashton Hayward. The…

The families in the Wedgewood, Rolling Hills and Olive Heights neighborhoods have organized to protest the dumps surrounding their area. A flyer has been circulated…

Since 2007, Mason-Dixon Polling has conducted a survey to measure the attitudes of voters in the city of Pensacola and Escambia County on Quality of…

MEMORANDUM TO: City Council President Jewel Cannada-Wynn and Members of the Pensacola City Council FROM: William D. (Rusty) Wells VIA: Office of the City Clerk…

On June 17, the county issued a Notice of Violation to Rolling Hills C&D Recycling Facility. Six violations were listed: 1. No person shall cause,…

Hayward announces appointment of Wells as Council Executive Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward today announced the appointment of former City Attorney William “Rusty” Wells as City…

Mayor Ashton Hayward has fired Lila Cox as the council executive, according to Councilman Gerald Wingate. He said that City Administrator Colleen Castille told him…

Occupy Pensacola will have another in federal court, thanks to an opinion issued on its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th…

On Thursday, June 19, Escambia County Commissioner Grover C. Robinson, IV was sworn in as the President of the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) at…