“Pensacola is natural for the Space Industry,” FloridaWest CEO Scott Luth told Inweekly after this weekend’s SpaceX splashdown in the waters off Pensacola Beach. “Actually, it’s already here.” Sunday wasn’t Astronaut Doug…
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Presser Notes: Street Murals and Space Dreams
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Following a weekend shooting incident in Pensacola that claimed the life of a 7-year-old girl, Mayor Grover Robinson opened his Monday morning press conference by offering condolences to…
Forever lost opportunity
Downtown Pensacola could have had a downtown campus for the University of West Florida, a convention center and a sports hall of fame, but the lease agreements that would have made them…
Myers: ‘Commissioner Bender, I will not be ignored”
After reading District 4 Commissioner Robert Bender’s comments in an interview with Inweekly reporter Jeremy Morrison, Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers called to say she did write the commissioner over a week…
Wentworth’s sensationalized history of the KKK
In 1927, the editor of the Ku Klux Klan’s monthly periodical “The Kourier,†asked T.T. Wentworth, Jr. to write an article on the rebirth of the Klan in Pensacola. Wentworth wasn’t chosen…
Judge issues temporary injunction blocking monument removal
Judge Gary Bergosh has issued an Emergency Temporary Restraining Order that blocks the city from removing the Confederate monument in Pensacola’s recently renamed Florida Square until a preliminary hearing.
Lawsuit re: Confederate monument
Inweekly has reviewed attorney David Rhodes McCallister’s lawsuit on the behalf of the Ladies Memorial Association, Randall Crooke – a representative of the Stephen Russell Mallory Camp 1315, Sons of Confederate Veterans,…
Group tries to block removal of Confederate monument
Published as received. Apparently Mr. McCallsiter (or McCallister) doesn’t have spell-check on his Radio Shack computer. LAWSUIT FILED FILED TO PREVENT LEE SQUARE CENOTAPH REMOVAL Pensacola – A lawsuit was filed in…
Confederate Monument Dead
By Jeremy Morrison and Sydney Robinson After more than a century, Pensacola’s Confederate monument is coming down. In a five-hour marathon of a meeting Tuesday night, the Pensacola City Council voted to…
Wentworth covered up his KKK history
Historian, community activist and Pensacola City Council candidate Teniade Broughton has posted on her Facebook page a newspaper article from July 10, 1977 about the discovery of 100 Ku Klux Klan robes…
Citizen Police Advisory Committee holds first meeting
Mayor Grover Robinson’s Citizen Police Advisory Committee met Thursday, July 9. Here’s Jeremy’s article on the inaugural meeting. Citizens on Patrol/h3> by Jeremy Morrison It was a long time coming, just over a year,…
PYP supports removal of Confederate monument
Dear President Cannada-Wynn and Honorable City Council Members: The Pensacola Young Professionals (PYP) was created in 2006 to empower young professionals to make a difference by becoming active participants in the professional,…