Podcast: Duelling food truck ordinances

Yesterday on “Pensacola Speaks,” Pensacola City Councilman Charles Bare discussed the two food truck ordinances up for approval tonight. Here are the ordinances: Food Trucks

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Fountain: Please send this back to planning board

Veronica Fountain thought that today’s council vote on correcting the zoning of her neighborhood, which is around the old Pickens school site, so that it…

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Sugar, Spice and more update

Spice: News reports have confirmed that Ben Galecki and Burton Ritchie were picked up by the U.S. Marshals for a federal grand jury indictment along…

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City staff adds new wrinkle to zoning change for Pickens School neighborhood

The Pensacola City Council is set approve a zoning change to the neighborhood around the old Pickens school—the site where Manna Food Pantries wanted to…

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ECUA loses another recycling facility

Advanced Mixed Materials Recovery Facility operated by Infinitus Energy has shutdown temporarily due to the weak market for recycled products. The facility has handled the…

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Podcast: Terhaar has signed his contract, Kraher starts Oct. 12

On “Pensacola Speaks,” Pensacola City Council President Andy Terhaar said that he executed on Monday the employment contract for the new council executive, Donald Kraher….

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Terhaar stands with council executive choice

Inweekly asked Pensacola City Council President Andy Terhaar whether he was bothered by the recent revelations that newly-hired Council Executive Donald Kraher had filed for…

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Then it got weirder, anonymous source tries to derail Pensacola council executive hire

The News Journal reports today that Council Vice President Larry B. Johnson delivered two unmarked envelopes to Assistant City Attorney Rusty Wells at the council’s…

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Pensacola City Council passes budget, as city government continues to cost residents more

The Pensacola City Council last night passed the FY 2016 city budget of $211,183,000. On the surface, it appears to be a saving over the…

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CMPA votes to build a ‘permanent solution’ to rickety fence

The Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees voted to replace the left field that is being held up by 2×4’s with a permanent fence….

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Buzz: Rickety fence could cancel UWF scrimmage at Maritime Park

We’re hearing that the fence (shown above) could force the cancellation of the UWF football scrimmage planned at the Maritime Park stadium for Oct. 17….

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Escambia County not in a hurry to set Local Option Gas Tax allocation with Pensacola

Last Thursday, the Pensacola City Council passed an inter-local agreement with the Board of County Commissioners for the allocation of the Local Option Gas Tax….

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Council Week concludes, the episode about the charter

by Jeremy Morrison Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward came out swinging Thursday night, as City Councilman Charles Bare led an effort to wrest some of the…

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Sallis defends his planning board vote for his client

In July, Inweekly reported that City Planning Board member Scott Sallis had voted on a project presented by his partner to the board. We thought…

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Buzz: Anti-discrimination ordinance may be headed to city council workshop

Councilman Brian Spencer has proposed an anti-discrimination ordinance that would extend civil rights protection inside the city of Pensacola to the LGBT community. The ordinance…

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Council Week continues, the episode about the budget

by Jeremy Morrison Pensacola City Council’s Wednesday night budget workshop was a three-hour stew of questions and numbers, with primarily two council members — Sherri…

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Council Week begins, next episode Wednesday

By Jeremy Morrison The Pensacola City Council dove into a jam-packed week last night, trying to wrap its arms around the Maritime Park lease process…

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Will anyone lease the Maritime Park parcels under new template?

Yesterday, Beggs & Lane attorney John Daniel presented his proposals for a template for future leases at the Community Maritime Park. See template. PNJ reporter…

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Pensacola: The Historic Elections of 1951

by Diane Mack, president of The Institute for Women in Politics of Northwest Florida On April 24, 1951, voters went to the polls in the…

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New ruling: Hawkshaw RFP is dead

Special Liaison Rusty Wells has sent to the Pensacola City Council additional information regarding the Hawkshaw RFP and whether Councilman Larry Johnson could bring up…

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