Category: Pensacola
Mayor Hayward reluctantly releases complete list of who worked in his office
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward initially refused to release to Inweekly a complete list of the employees who have worked in his office since Oct. 1,…
Underhill: What is a fiscal conservative [podcast]
On “Pensacola Speaks” on Monday, Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill talked about budgeting and his definition of a fiscal conservative. We touched on the local…
Inside the numbers: More guns used in City of Pensacola crimes
The Pensacola Police Department crime statistics reveal that the use of firearms while committing a crime was up for the first six months of 2016…
No joint meeting between commission and council
Last week, Mayor Ashton Hayward appealed to the state the county’s distribution formula for the local option gas tax. The appeal was sent one week…
Inside the numbers: Domestic violence on the rise in the City of Pensacola
Last night, the Pensacola Police Department released a statement that Pensacola man, Alonzo Thompkins, had been charged with aggravated child abuse after police responded to…
City reports violent crime rate the same, property crime down 7.4 percent
Semi-annual crime statistics for the Pensacola Police Department show a 6.3 percent decrease in overall crime within city limits for the same time period last…
Court documents lay out history of Bayview Park Cross
The City of Pensacola has filed its answer to the lawsuit regarding the Bayview Park Cross. The document defends the cross as a historic memorial…
Top ‘Pensacola Speaks’ podcasts for the week ending Aug. 6
The “Pensacola Speaks” podcasts are ranked in the top 150 in the PodOmatic network. Here the top episodes for this past week: Â 1. Broxson fires…
City of Pensacola hands over DROP list, sort of
At 5:05 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5, the City of Pensacola’s “Sunshine Center” sent Inweekly its reply to our request for “List of city employees…
Myers on gas tax appeal: ‘I was stabbed in the back’
Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers says she feels like City Administrator Eric Olson and CFO Dick Barker stabbed her in the back when the city…
City attorney explains gas tax appeal
From: Lysia Bowling Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2016 3:48 PM To: P.C. Wu; Sherri Myers; Andy Terhaar; Larry B. Johnson; Gerald Wingate; Brian Spencer; Jewel…
Viewpoint: Mayor put paving his street ahead of others
by Mark Taylor Mayor Hayward Has Shown Poor Judgement In Dealing With City of Pensacola Streets. This recent controversy over the 6-cent gas tax allocation…
City slow to post monthly financial reports
When he was first elected in 2010, Mayor Ashton Hayward committed to “Produce monthly, line-item financial statements that will be posted online for the public…
What does the City gas tax appeal say
In the cover letter to the Administration Commission, which includes Gov. Rick Scott and the other members of the Florida Cabinet-Attorney General Pam Bondi, CFO…
Mayor Ashton Hayward has already borrowed $15 million for paving program
According to City of Pensacola Public Information Officer Vernon Stewart, the City of Pensacola has already borrowed $15-million to compete 10-years’ worth of paving in…
Buzz: Hayward appeals gas tax issue to Gov. Rick Scott
A day after Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May sent his few additions to the city’s ambitious three-year street paving program, Mayor Ashton Hayward notified the…
FRS faces massive wave of DROP enrollees
By LLOYD DUNKELBERGER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Despite a topsy-turvy year in the world financial markets, Florida’s $142 billion pension fund managed to show…
City of Pensacola has new ‘Sunshine Center’ coordinator
Inweekly has been told that Maxwell Branham is no longer the Public Records Coordinator of the City of Pensacola. Branham was hired in June 2015…
City refuses to release pension information
Inweekly requested last week information on the City of Pensacola employees who have retired and later rehired – process known as “double-dipping.” The employee enters…
Are we ready for medical pot dispensaries
Has the mayor’s office done anything to prepare for the state’s new marijuana industry? Last week, the Escambia Board of County Commissioners took the first…
