City sidewalk plan disappears

Sidewalks were an issue when the Pensacola City Council discussed the budget last year. In the mayor’s 2017 Pensacola Resident Satisfaction Survey, city sidewalks received…

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Buzz: Hayward offers Pensacola Police Union at 10-percent raise

We have been told the city of Pensacola announced today at Pensacola City Hall that Mayor Ashton Hayward has negotiated a 10-percent raise for the…

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Ferry service a huge accomplishment for Superintendent Dan Brown

Yesterday, Gulf Islands National Seashore, city of Pensacola and Escambia County hosted joint press conference officially launching Pensacola Bay Cruises. The ferry service has been…

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Deadline to qualify for local races is noon Friday

The deadline for qualifying for office is noon tomorrow. A handful of candidates who have pre-filed have yet to submit their petitions or a check…

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Studers donate downtown parcel for youth sports facility

Quint and Rishy Studer announced this morning that they are donating a parcel on the west side of the former ECUA treatment plant site on…

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Barker may have unintentionally explained budget overruns

When City of Pensacola CFO Dick Barker last week defended why the city didn’t amend Caldwell Associates Architects contract for the proposed Bayview Community Center,…

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Barker lost the council when he stretched ‘facts’

Last week, the City of Pensacola’s chief financial officer, Dick Barker, tried to use his 38 years of experience in the city’s finance department and…

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Moore leads City District 4 race, 57.5 percent doesn’t know candidates

According to an Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 226 likely Pensacola District 4 voters, Jared Moore holds a lead with 18.6 percent of the vote followed…

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Petition calls for City Administrator to be investigated

A petition has been launched on change.org regarding City Administrator Eric Olson’s decision to halt processing of the city’s recyclables last September without informing the…

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Poll: Robinson leads in mayor’s race, Buchanan nearly doubles support

Escambia County Commissioner Grover Robinson has a commanding lead in the race to be Pensacola’s next mayor but still falls short of winning the office…

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Garden District Cottages to begin work soon

ParsCo, LLC and its development entity, Encore Investment Company, LLC (Encore), have completed the closing on the former Blount School property with the City of…

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Buchanan applauds resumption of recycling, calls on Hayward to terminate city administrator

A bright spot of last night’s council meeting was the Pensacola City Council’s approval a contract with ECUA for the processing of recyclables. Mayoral candidate…

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Fiscal conservatism wins out on Thursday

Last night, the Pensacola City Council overwhelmingly told Mayor Ashton Hayward not to spend more than $8.25 million on the new Bayview Community Center. The…

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City of Pensacola mishandling of recyclables may have cost over $109K

Inweekly has reviewed the Tarpon Paper Co. invoices for the first six months of 2017. The City of Pensacola sent Tarpon 2,683,558 pounds of recyclables…

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A public record that the city can not provide

On May 28, Inweekly made the following request for: “The documentation sent to Caldwell Associates Architects (CAA) that updated the budget of the Bayview Community…

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Bay Cruises start June 22

Bay Cruises Start Friday The National Park Service and Gulf Coast Maritime Services, Inc. have signed a contract for the operation of Pensacola Bay Cruises….

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What happened to transparency at city hall?

When City CFO Dick Barker addresses the Pensacola City Council, he frequently talks about his 35+ years with the city’s finance department as he makes…

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Bay County starts work on $37-million sports park (Mayor Hayward, please read footnote)

Yesterday, Bay County broke ground on a $37-million sports park that will include an outdoor field complex, athletic fields, walking and biking trails. It is…

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Bayview center: Budget analyst says, ‘project was not planned at a $6M total cost level from the beginning’

The Pensacola City Council’s budget analyst, Butch Hansen, sent the council his review of the proposed $9.6-million Bayview Community Center. He states, “My review of…

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Ballsy Plan for Mayor Hayward

On Monday, City CFO Dick Barker told the Pensacola City Council that the city has the funds to pay for the construction of a $10-million…

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