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Gulf Power defends rate hike request

Citing the need to continue to invest in the long-term reliability of Northwest Floridaâ€™s energy infrastructure, Gulf Power has notified the Florida Public Service Commission…

City of Pensacola refuses to provide DROP data

The City of Pensacola has refused our request for additional information to clarify our original DROP request. On Saturday, we asked: “Please tell us what…

Pensacola and Escambia reopen gas tax talks [podcast]

Escambia County Commission chairman Grover Robinson said on “Pensacola Speaks” yesterday that Escambia County staff is meeting with City of Pensacola staff to try to…

Quest for City DROP records continues

On Aug. 3, Inweekly made the same public record request of the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) and the City of Pensacola. We didn’t…

Grover asks Mayor to accept gas tax offer

Escambia County Commission Chair Grover Robinson has sent a letter to Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward urging him to “accept the proposal currently approved by the…

Who is the client of the City Attorney

Last week, City Attorney Lysia Bowling told the Pensacola City Council that she independently made the decision to file an appeal to Florida Cabinet regarding…

Olson expects VT MAE groundbreaking to be Sept. 8

City Administrator Eric Olson gave his monthly report to the Pensacola City Council at its agenda review on Aug. 8. He said the city would…

Pensacola Fire Department overtime continues to climb in June

The City of Pensacola finally released the Monthly Line-item Financial Statement for June 2016. Once again, the overtime expenditures of the Pensacola Fire Department, $54,609,…

Bowling insists she appealed gas tax independently

Since last week, City Attorney Lysia Bowling has told the Pensacola City Council that it was her decision to appeal the Local Option Gas Tax…

What will Mayor Hayward do with parking plan

The West Florida Regional Planning Council presented its downtown parking study to the Pensacola City Council on Monday. The $30,000 study was commissioned by Mayor…

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…