Pensacola history: The Fight for Recycling

In July, the City of Pensacola will restart its curbside recycling under a new fee structure, which offers a discount to those who don’t recycle….

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Top Reads: Week ended June 28. 2025

This week of June is usually slow; few big stories happened from last June until after the Pensacola Beach Blue Angels Show. The Escambia County…

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Pensacola’s Recycling Program Resurrected

Well, well, well. Look who’s back from their environmental sabbatical! The City of Pensacola has ready to reinstate curbside recycling. After what the city diplomatically…

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Daily Outtakes: Escambia Children’s Trust moves on MOUs

The Escambia Children’s Trust is moving closer to a partnership with Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves’ groundbreaking childcare initiative that could transform early childhood education in…

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UWF and PPD partner on innovative patrol tool

An applied research project led by Dr. Nicholas Hasan Buker, chair and professor in the Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies at the…

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Pensacola’s Leadership Shift: 2001-2025

In March 2001, the Pensacola News Journal named the area’s top 20 leaders. The newspaper asked a “diverse group of 50” in both counties to…

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Top Reads: week ended June 21, 2025

Escambia County Commissioner Ashlee Hofberger and her $1.4 million architectural arch for Pensacola Beach drew the most attention, particularly her efforts to spin it. After…

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Pensacola area job market red hot!

According to FloridaCommerce, the Pensacola metropolitan area recorded the fastest over-the-year job growth rate in professional and business services among all Florida metro areas in…

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What do you think about Veo scooters?

The City of Pensacola is evaluating whether to continue or discontinue the Veo electric scooter program in Downtown Pensacola. The program, which began in 2022,…

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ST Engineering awards aerospace scholarships

The future of Pensacola’s aviation industry took center stage this month as ST Engineering hosted its annual Mayor’s Scholarship Luncheon, celebrating seven exceptional Escambia County…

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Pensacola’s home to GE Vernona Wind Flagship

This morning, Brandy McGraw gave me a personal tour of the largest wind turbine manufacturing facility in North America, which is located on Scenic Highway…

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Podcast: The Legal Right to Peaceful Protest

The disconnect between political messaging and actual events was stark during last weekend’s protests. While Governor DeSantis suggested people could “run over” protesters they felt…

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Daily Outtakes: Takeaways from June 17 presser

Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves addressed several pressing city issues during Tuesday’s press conference, covering everything from youth sports investigations to infrastructure projects and future development…

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Honoring the Past: Pensacola Unveils Memorial Marker for Miraflores Park Burial Ground

The City of Pensacola today held a moving ceremony to dedicate a memorial marker honoring an unmarked burial ground at Miraflores Park, marking the culmination…

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City’s $2.4M demand: A Strategic Move or Legal Necessity?

The City of Pensacola sent shockwaves through local government circles last Friday when it formally demanded $2,448,905 from the Escambia Children’s Trust, asserting its claim…

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Daily Outtakes: City demands $2.4M from Children’s Trust

Last Friday, the City of Pensacola formally notified the Escambia Children’s Trust (Trust) to remit tax increment revenues (TIF) generated within the City’s Community Redevelopment…

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The Tale of the Sale of Old Stinky

The former Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA) Main Street sewage treatment plant site, commonly known as “Old Stinky,” has become the focus of substantial redevelopment…

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Top Reads: Week ended June 14, 2025

Readers followed closely the University of West Florida Board of Trustees and the Pensacola Beach Gateway debacle. UWF We posted Manny Diaz’s employment contract before…

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Pensacola Honors Historic Burial Ground with Marker Ceremony

The City of Pensacola will commemorate the installation of a marker honoring the unmarked burial ground at Miraflores Park on Tuesday, June 17, at 9…

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IHMC Pioneers the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) has always been ahead of the curve, but its latest venture into collaborative autonomy represents a…

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