by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly …Pensacola’s civic-engagement experiment entered a new phase Tuesday evening, with the formal unveiling of a new community resource organization and introduction of landscape architecture consultants to reimagine the…
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Presser notes: ST Scramble, Fear of Clawbacks & Power of Myth
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Much of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s weekly press conference was spent discussing the city’s manufacturing-jobs ambitions at the airport — dubbed Project Titan — but other subjects were touched on…
Town Hall: Dreams of Sidewalks and Annexations
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During his first town hall meeting Thursday night, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson heard from citizens on a range of issues, from on-the-ground concerns like sidewalks and street lighting…
Pensacola fails to make ‘Safest Cities’ list
The National Council for Home Safety and Security today announced its ranking of the Safest Cities in Florida for 2018. The top ten cities are: Satellite Beach (Last year: 4) Key Biscayne (5) Marco…
Scenic Heights visits Council chambers
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During council’s Jan. 17 meeting, members heard from residents of the Scenic Heights neighborhood in regards to the city’s plans for a soccer complex off of Langley Avenue….
Council increases monthly meetings
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –The Pensacola City Council is upping the number of meetings it holds, with members deciding to move to two meetings per months, each preceded earlier in the week…
More ST Engineering jobs in 2019
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –ST Engineering is forecasting job growth for its operations at the Pensacola airport, even as city officials continue to search for the funding needed to keep the jobs-project…
Soccer in the vestibule
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Billed as a public input session for Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s transition team, a Tuesday night city meeting quickly spiraled off in another direction, with many attendees wanting…
Proposed City Council Schedule
Pensacola City Council President Andy Terhaar submitted his recommendation for the council meetings for the remainder of 2019. He has requested the council return to two regular meetings a month, except of…
Agenda Review: Complete Streets, Renaming Bridge
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola may be scrapping its Bicycle Advisory Committee. Officials discussed dropping the committee and creating a board to focus on establishing a Complete Streets ordinance….
Robinson: More communication and truthfulness
At this morning’s press conference, Mayor Grover Robinson commented on his administration’s effort to have open lines of communications with the Pensacola City Council. Last week, Councilman P.C. Wu remarked at workshop…
TT: Civic engagement, with a slice of cake
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The transition team studying various aspects of the city of Pensacola to prepare a collection of recommendations for Mayor Grover Robinson is in the thick of its work….