Category: Pensacola
Robinson reached out to Lovoy prior to resignation
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson spoke with Escambia County interim administrator Amy Lovoy regarding the prospects of coming to work at the…
Buzz: Robinson to hire another county official
The Pensacola News Journal reports that Assistant County Administrator Matt Coughlin has turned in his 90-day notice of resignation. Inweekly had received several reports that…
City: Petition drive failed
City officials say the deadline for the petition drive to disrupt the expansion of MRO campus has passed without the group ever presenting any signatures…
City partners on Arts, Healthcare Efforts
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola is working with outside organizations to partner on efforts somewhat out of the city’s wheelhouse. Mayor Grover…
Breaking news: Lagarde named city PIO
Inweekly Rising Star–and Senior Community and Media Relations Specialist for Escambia County–will be Mayor Grover Robinson’s public information officer. She starts work May 20.
Getting ‘Creative’ with Healthcare Funding
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola is preparing to try something that both Mayor Grover Robinson and City Attorney Susan Woolf described as…
Presser notes: City repaving sucked up drainage funds
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Some of Pensacola’s recent road resurfacing may have created more severe drainage issues in certain areas. Additionally, Mayor Grover Robinson said…
Homeless Summit defines focus
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The conversation is just getting started, but Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson struck an optimistic tone as the city and Escambia County…
Pensacola makes championship round -Strongest Town 2019
 Pensacola, FL and Portsmouth, N From the Strong Towns team: It’s finally here: the grand championship round of the #StrongestTown2019 contest. Pensacola, FL and Portsmouth,…
Underhill tries end run on PEDC bill, fails
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill last week tried to get the Florida House State Affairs Committee to not hear HB 1067, which restructures the Pensacola-Escambia…
Pensacola makes Final Four
Pensacola eked out a four-point victory over Delray, Fla. in the 2019 Strongest Town contest. More than 5,500 votes were cast in our second round…
‘Right price’ downtown parking
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola’s Downtown Improvement Board continued to refine its plans for downtown parking during a Tuesday night workshop in preparation for a…
Yawn, another port study
Yesterday, I wrote how the Hayward administration and the Pensacola City Council talked about Complete Streets for seven years without getting anywhere. Downtown got a…
City of Pensacola had six people at Symposium
According to the registration records, the City of Pensacola had six people at the Emerald Coast Transportation Symposium held in late February: Drew Buchanan, Mayoral…
Complete Streets not a new idea
The City of Pensacola has been talking about Complete Streets since 2012. Initially, the concept was used as a reason to open East Government Street…
Mayor ticked over headline
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The national media picked up on Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s comments last week about potentially fining people who give to panhandlers…
Poll: Pensacola voters aren’t keen on fining givers
After the mayor last week commented that he was considering fining drivers who give to panhandlers, Inweekly had Political Matrix conduct a telephone poll of…
Pensacola mulls street improvements
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Potential improvement plans for a trio of streets in the heart of Pensacola were unveiled to the public during a Tuesday…
Don’t go ‘Hayward,’ mayor
Mayor Grover Robinson’s off-the-cuff remarks about fining vehicle drivers for giving money to people on the roadside has created news around the state. When his…
Meet City PIO candidates
Through a public record request, Inweekly received the 60 applications for the City of Pensacola’s Public Information Officer. Out of those 60, 36 met the…
