Category: Pensacola
Clock starts on petition drive to stop funding for Aviation campus
Citizens Against Corporate Welfare today filed the paperwork with the City of Pensacola to form a petitioners’ committee that will ask the Pensacola City Council…
Broxson: What’s the rush?
State Sen. Doug Broxson this morning told Inweekly that he will put forth to the Florida Legislature the public will’s for naming the Pensacola Bay…
Fire Chief Saga: Where was Lysia Bowling?
According the city of Pensacola’s charter, the city attorney “serves as the chief legal adviser to, and shall represent, elected or appointed officials, boards and…
Bridge may have ‘Chappie’ James monument
By Duwayne Escobedo The citizens supporting the General Chappie James Memorial Bridge name change on the six-lane bridge that connects Gulf Breeze to Pensacola also…
Reflections on Carpenter’s Creek
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Ora Wills paints a vivid picture of living near Carpenter’s Creek before that area of Pensacola was developed into the landscape…
Chappie James Bridge?
By Duwayne Escobedo, Inweekly — Today, locals refer to the bridge connecting Pensacola to Gulf Breeze as the Bay Bridge or Three-Mile Bridge. Have you…
More: Accreditation, PIO leaving
Mayor Grover Robinson announced two tidbits of information at last night’s District 7 town hall. He is traveling to St. Augustine on Wednesday for a…
District 7 Town Hall: Sunday Hammers and Splash Pads
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Residents of Pensacola’s District 7 enjoyed an audience of three of their elected officials Monday evening, with Mayor Grover Robinson, City…
Fire Chiefs Saga: Wells and Larkin behind it
Since Inweekly broke the story about former Mayor Ashton Hayward settling the federal lawsuits filed by his former fire chief and deputy chief, the newspaper…
The Great Soccer Debate
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
