By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Valentine’s Day public gallery was awash with waves of red and green for the Pensacola City Council meeting, with opponents of a planned soccer complex off of…
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Scenic Heights fought soccer fields in 2005–and won
Sharon Dickinson has lived on Hibiscus Road in the Scenic Heights for 35 years. She remembers how the neighborhood successfully fought soccer fields being built at Hitzman Park on Langley Avenue in…
Ever-evolving job titles of William ‘Rusty’ Wells
Rusty Wells has had four different jobs with the city of Pensacola over the past year. On Jan. 4 2015, Wells, who served as city attorney until April 2011, was hired as…
DeSantis wants grand jury probe of school safety
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Florida’s deadliest school shooting, Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the Florida Supreme Court to impanel…
Hayward beefed up Bowling’s severance package in August
According to records released yesterday by the City of Pensacola, former Mayor Ashton Hayward modified City Attorney Lysia Bowling’s employment agreement just three months before he left office. The document, entitled “City…
Bowling paid $91K to trade jobs
The buyouts of the holdovers from the Hayward administration has begun. Former City Attorney Lysia Bowling, who has worked for the city since April 2015, was paid $91,588.33 to give up her…
Presser Notes: ST, soccer and safer streets
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –After patching together must-have funding commitments for Project Triumph last week, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said the city’s hopes for the jobs-and-infrastructure project now rests with the state…
Poll: Pensacola wants to know facts about investigation of fire chiefs
A InWeekly/Political Matrix poll of 444 likely Pensacola City voters conducted over the weekend found residents overwhelmingly want Mayor Grover Robinson to investigate why former Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire…
County pitches in on Titan
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson secured an additional $5 million from Escambia County Thursday night for a jobs and infrastructure project at the airport. The commitment was needed as…
Council narrowly approves more Titan Money
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –The Pensacola City Council narrowly approved committing another $5 million to the so-called Project Titan — a jobs and infrastructure project at the airport — after lengthy debates…
Crime down in Pensacola
Violent crimes in the City of Pensacola were down during the 2018 calendar year, according to the FLDE. The property crime rate was down 4.2 percent, and the clearance rate of crimes…
Mayor promises to establish an independent personnel board
Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson this morning committed to establishing an independent personnel board after listening to a presentation at the mayoral transition team meeting History Two years after he took office, Mayor…