Category: Pensacola

Runners-up finally get their spotlight, D4 politics turn nasty, and Pensacola sailors bring home a trophy last seen in 1973. Your weekly wrap is here.

Congressman bans Jelly Roll from the Panhandle over a Trump fat joke. Rick’s response? Invite him to Pensacola. Here’s the itinerary.

4th Annual Rock4Vets 5K hits Maritime Park Sept 5! Run, walk, or cheer for NW Florida veterans. Join the 250 Crew & help fund the mission.

53 years in the making: Pensacola Yacht Club’s women’s sailing team just brought the Knost Trophy home. Here’s how they did it.

Gulf Winds Credit Union is becoming TruWorth — and buying a bank. CEO Daniel Souers tells Rick Outzen what changes and what won’t.

Jolly says Florida would elect a Dem governor tonight — and he’s promising to ban data centers statewide, same fight Escambia’s fighting now.

America’s #1 beach becomes a battleground. Beach Brawl returns Sept. 25-27 — three days of elite athletes, free spectator seats, zero qualifiers.

Mayor Reeves eyes Wahoo Stadium for soccer instead of a new $70M venue. Study results due in October. Find out what’s happening.

Pensacola lands $50M+ for ACW Superfund cleanup. Phase one soil work starts December, but $19.6M of phase two still isn’t funded but more grants in the works.

FSU, Mississippi State, South Alabama, LMU & UWF are all coming to the Bay Center this fall. Three games, one huge season for Pensacola hoops.

The mayor’s office released this list after my podcast interview with Mayor D.C. Reeves: 1. Academic & Educational Institutions University of West Florida (UWF) (including…

53 stakeholders. 3,700 jobs. One city of 55,000. Mayor Reeves on turning year-long job training into weeks before Pensacola’s shipbuilding boom

Twenty years ago, Best of the Coast was the only reader poll in town. The issue hadn’t become the mega-success it has under Editor Joani Delezen. See BOC ’06.

Best of the Coast 2026 is here — 13,000 votes, 84 pages, and the local businesses that won your hearts (and your dollars).

Fifty-three years later, Pensacola Yacht Club women bring the Knost Trophy back to Pensacola—Navy aviators & sailors reclaim a title last won in 1973.

Reeves says the county can lead on the redrafting of the Bay Center interlocal agreement or drop it. What will Moreno do? When will actual work begin?

Mayor Reeves says he was “surprised” the council pulled his juvenile curfew ordinance. Councilman Bare says nobody wants one. Watch podcast.

Reeves wins reelection outright with 53.23%, no runoff needed. He talks margin, priorities, and whether he’ll seek a third term in 2030.

Reeves avoids runoff, Kohler survives a coordinated push to unseat him, and Escambia voters bring back an elected superintendent. Full results at ricksblog.biz

900+ boxes of Pensacola artifacts just left NAS Pensacola for good, headed to UGA to escape hurricanes & get proper care. Here’s why.