Category: Pensacola
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…
FYI: Some Fla. cities move Confederate monuments
The Lakeland City Commission agreed to go ahead with moving its Confederate monument after a federal lawsuit by Confederate heritage groups was dismissed. The groups…
Town hall set for Feb. 19
Sherri Myers, Pensacola City Council, District 2 is hosting a town hall meeting 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19 regarding Carpenter’s Creek. The meeting will provide…
Presser: Titan, Annexation & the DIB
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Much of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s time as of late has been devoted to securing funds for the jobs-related infrastructure project…
Buzz: Hayward declines Triumph appointment
Sources in Tallahassee have reported to Inweekly that former Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward has declined the appointment to the Triumph Gulf Coast Board of Directors,…
The $575K meeting
The plan to place Pensacola Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover on administrative leave, hire attorney Russell Van Sickle to investigate…
City Hall survivors thrive
When Ashton Hayward campaigned for Pensacola mayor in 2010, he talked a great deal about taking on the establishment and the “good old boys.†One…
Why did city officials want to destroy Deputy Chief Glover?
In 2005, then-Battalion Chief Joseph Glover and Lts. Jose Cobb, Paul Johnson and Derek Streeter filed a federal discrimination lawsuit suit against the City of…
The man behind allegations against fire chiefs
The investigation of former Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief that led to their terminations, subsequent lawsuits and the city’s insurance carrier paying…
A mother defended her son
When I interviewed Joe Glover for “Fire Chiefs ‘Vindicated,’†he talked about the toll the investigation and termination took on his family. “It was extremely…
Five key points of Fire Chiefs’ settlement
Our story Fire Chiefs “Vindicated’ is online and in our news stands. Here are the key points: 1. Big money Though the settlements have no…
Here are settlement agreements
The City of Pensacola, represented by CFO Dick Barker, made former Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover sign an addendum that…
Exclusive: Chief Schmitt speaks out
This morning, Inweekly broke the story that the City of Pensacola settled the discrimination lawsuits filed by former Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire…
City settled Fire Chiefs’ lawsuits
Did you hear the City of Pensacola settled the discrimination lawsuits filed by former Fire Chief Matt Schmitt and Deputy Fire Chief Joe Glover for…
CivicCon 2.0: SCAPE visits
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
