Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida CEO Paula Shell talks the Big Brother and Big Sister honorees for 2023. Letter carriers in the two-county area collected 191,261 pounds of food –…
Category: Politics
Daily Outtakes: Westside redevelopment
Buying Pensacola Motor Lodge The City’s Westside Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) will consider a proposal to buy the Pensacola Motor Lodge on West Cervantes Street at its meeting on Monday, June 12….
Real News: Mayors, plus Soul Royals
Mayor D.C. Reeves talked about changes in this leadership team – a nothing burger. “It seemed what took place last week was a little bit of a misunderstanding of the term ‘administrative…
Pensacola Beach: Another record broken
On WCOA this morning, Escambia County Commissioner Robert Bender reported that beach traffic hit a new milestone on Saturday, June 3 – 24,794 cars. Friday – 20,744; Sunday 21,444 “I think that’s…
Daily Outtakes: Real Conversations
Perdido Beach Access – Some, Not All Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh reports that the only gulf-front parcels that have public beach easements in their deeds are the 64 that stretch from…
Beulah Town Hall tonight
Commissioner Jeff Bergosh will host a town hall tonight from 6-8 p.m. at Beulah Middle School, 6001 W. Nine Mile Road. The meeting will be recorded and posted to the Escambia County YouTube…
Daily Outtakes: Wrong Spot?
Operation Brownville The law enforcement initiative to “clean-up” of a neighborhood shared by the City of Pensacola and Escambia County will end on Friday, June 16. Did Sheriff Simmons choose the wrong…
Buzz: City admin leaves no big deal
WEAR-TV and PNJ are trying to make a big deal of City Neighborhoods administrator Lawrence Powell and Parks & Rec director Adrian Stills going on administrative leave, insinuating that something nefarious is…
Last Word: Ed Banacia
Edwin Banacia Senior Director, Media, Ideaworks USA Inweekly, 8/19/2010 What is your chief characteristic? Googleability What do you appreciate most about your friends? Friends? I don’t have friends in real life anymore….
Daily Outtakes: Tough walks, even tougher talks
Filthy School I toured Warrington Middle School yesterday with Charter Schools USA Florida superintendent Dr. Eddie Ruiz and Ana Cordal, Charter USA’s vice president of school support and compliance, and found the…
Last Word: Laura McKay
Laura McKay Inweekly, 12/9/2007 The 1620 AM NewsRadio afternoon news anchor has more than 20 years experience in radio and TV broadcasting. She recently worked at a news/talk station in Denver where…
Lexington Terrace Park options
Escambia County District 2 Commissioner Mike Kohler and Parks and Recreation will hold a public meeting Wednesday, June 7 at 4 p.m. at Lexington Terrace Park, 900 S. Old Corry Field Road,…