Category: Pensacola
Presser Notes: Oysters, Overlay & ‘Parochial Poison’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During this week’s press conference, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson dove into the politics of aquaculture, forecasts some DIB picks and also…
City voters care more for needs of city than individual districts
According to a recent Inweekly/Political Matrix poll, city voters aren’t as concerned about their districts as they are about their city council representatives doing what’s…
City’s mission: ‘Highest quality of life for all citizens’
Inweekly had reporter Jeremy Morrison cover the city’s visioning workshop last week. By most accounts, it was like trying to manage a box of kittens,…
Poll: City voters favor cutting bottle club hours
In a InWeekly/Political Matrix poll of 538 likely voters in the city of Pensacola, we found that 40.1 percent supported closing the bottle clubs in…
Presser: Looking forward to visioning and Amy
By Jeremy Morrison Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson traversed a number of items Monday during his weekly press conference. In addition to filling the media in…
Poll: Residents satisfied with Mayor Robinson
The latest Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 538 likely voters in the city of Pensacola found that 73 percent of those polled were satisfied with the…
Outtakes: Tear down that wall
There is no silver bullet that will fix the crisis in Escambia County’s administration. If the Board of County Commissioners believe an ordinance or hiring…
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…






















