Category: Pensacola
City 3-1-1 app still not catching on
Inweekly had Duwayne Escobedo look into the City of Pensacola’s 3-1-1 service, which handled a little over 400 calls a month last year–most of which…
Three roughest starts as Pensacola City Council president
The first two months of any position can be rocky as one gets acclimated to the position. That definitely holds true for the position of…
Podcast: Council president says Human Rights ordinance may not come up until March
Yesterday, Pensacola City Council President Charles Bare said on “Pensacola Speaks†that the human rights ordinance that was referred last November to the city attorney…
Podcast: Mayor Hayward working on downtown parking solutions
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward called into “Pensacola Speaks” to praise Quint and Rishy Studer for their investments in his city. He also talked about downtown…
Pensacolians love their fire and police
City of Pensacola residents gave the Pensacola Fire and Police departments, City Sanitation and City Parks high grades, according to a telephone conducted by the…
Viewpoint: Downtown – Barely Getting Started
By John Peacock, Downtown Improvement Board chairman The City of Pensacola is an amazingly wonderful place to live, work and play, and the downtown area…
Olson gives update on city projects
At the end of the five-hour Pensacola City Council meeting on Thursday, Jan. 14, City Administrator Eric Olson gave his update on city operations. The…
Olson: Deepflex concerns, FEMA appeal, City Hall security tightens
At the end of last week’s five-hour Pensacola City Council meeting, City Administrator Eric Olson gave his monthly verbal report to the council. Olson said…
Manna Food Pantries only did what city officials told them
When Manna Food Pantries bought the old Pickens School property on Hayne Street, the Escambia County School District’s realtor, Danny Zimmern, told the non-profit that…
Schrey: ‘The amendment file was totally hidden from me’
Elizabeth Schrey was the Planning Services staffer that presented the exception request for Manna’s proposed warehouse to the Planning Board. She told Inweekly that she…
Mayor pushes council to decide about its staff
Though the Pensacola City Council eventually decided to place the mayoral add-on onto its agenda for Wednesday, some members initially raised concerns about the request…
Circumstances surrounding proposed Manna warehouse support Schrey
Yesterday, former city planner Elizabeth Schrey told Inweekly that she lost her job in a “restructuring†of City Hall after she refused to lie to…
Wells to be reassigned
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward has notified the City Council that he will retain and reassign Rusty Wells, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Wells was the city…
Legal Opinion 2: Divine Word lease and building permits null and void
In light of his legal opinion that the radio tower violates Florida Statutes, the City of Pensacola Land Development Code and its Comprehensive Plan, Inweekly…
Legal Opinion: Divine Word tower should be removed from Long Hollow basin
City Attorney Lysia Bowling misled the Pensacola City Council with a rather narrow legal opinion on the Ground Lease between the City of Pensacola and…
Bare assumes presidency
Pensacola City Councilman Charles Bare ended Tuesday morning center-dais in his newly-won president’s seat, but he began it addressing his peers on council from the…
Bare elected council president
The Pensacola City Council elected Charles Bare as its new council president. He beat out Andy Terhaar in a run-off. More later.
Human Rights ordinance tentatively scheduled for Feb. 2016
Pensacola Council Executive Donald Kraher has notified the council that he and the city attorney have are looking at a February date for a review/action…
Pensacola City Council members send in nominations for president and vp
The agenda has been published for next Tuesday’s special council meeting for the election of the council president and vice president for the upcoming year….
Podcast: Underhill on Bayou Chico clean-up
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill yesterday appeared on News Talk 1370’s ‘Pensacola Speaks’ to talk about the brewing controversy surrounding the dredging of Bayou Chico….
