Category: Politics
Visit Pensacola wins Henry
Yesterday, VISIT FLORIDA announced the recipients of the 2023 Florida Tourism Hall of Fame and Flagler Awards during the annual Chairman’s Dinner. Each year, leaders…
Daily Outtakes: Tango in Pensacola?
The Escambia County School Board is asking a judge to move from Jacksonville to Pensacola a federal lawsuit about access in school libraries to the…
Real News podcasts
Tuesday, Sept. 5 Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses what’s happening in District 2. Pensacola Sports CEO Ray Palmer covers his organization’s move to the…
Aviation Museum and Blue Wahoos to unveil POW/MIA patch
The National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) and the Pensacola Blue Wahoos baseball team are partnering to host a press conference Tuesday where a new, commemorative…
Supreme Paper acquired
JERSEY CITY, N.J. & PENSACOLA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of foodservice packaging supplies, industrial products, and janitorial supplies, today announced the acquisition of…
DeSantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to ethics board
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Tina Descovich and Luis Fuste to the Florida Commission on Ethics. Tina Descovich Descovich…
New Pensacola Sanitation Collection Schedule
Mayor D.C. Reeves announced the two-day pickup schedule for Pensacola residents: Monday Customers Monday: Garbage and yard waste Thursday: Garbage only Tuesday Customers Tuesday: Garbage…
Real News: Thursday, Aug. 31
I was out most of Thursday and Friday with a stomach bug so I apologize for taking so long to get these posted. Aylstock Within…
Real News podcasts
Trying to catch up: Tuesday, Aug. 29 Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves discusses Kaycee LaGarde’s departure, the latest on ST Engineering and downtown growth. Take Stock…
UWF reenacts the trial of James Meredith
University of West Florida Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies and UWF Department of Theatre will present the James Meredith Trial Reenactment and…
Daily Outtakes: Idalia now Cat 4, downgraded Cat 3 before landfall
Update – 6:45 am: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE IDALIA MAKES LANDFALL IN THE FLORIDA BIG BEND… …. The media reports it made landfall near…
Real News – Monday, Aug. 28
In June, Florida House Speaker Paul Renner wrote Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz, asking him to form a committee to assess the consolidation…
3M board approves $6 billion settlement on earplug lawsuits
The 3M board of directors approved a $6 billion settlement for its defective earplugs that damaged the hearing of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military…
Daily Outtakes: Escambia tops state in book complaints, award-winning coffee
Escambia Schools Lead the State …in books being banned. The Tampa Bay Times reports that most of Florida’s counties have few challenges about their school…
Breaking: 3M board considering $5.5B settlement for earplug cases
Several national media outlets are reporting that the board of directors of 3M are considering accepting a $5.5 billion settlement of the nearly 260,000 lawsuits…
But Pam Childers didn’t…
Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers once again tried to spin the lawsuit over the commissioners’ pension plan that she saved the day by stopping the…
Podcast: CoC, Fair, City Council, Chorus and GC Kid’s House
Escambia County Administrator Wes Moreno discusses why he and Mayor D.C. Reeves want to a play active roles in the Continuum of Care that deals…
Kaycee Lagarde returning to county government
The City of Pensacola Public Information Officer Kaycee Lagarde is returning to Escambia County government to serve as its Strategic Communications Director. Before taking the…
Debate recap: Nikki Haley rides Barbie, Taylor Swift train
On WCOA, Ryan Wiggins from The Lincoln Project recapped the first Republican presidential debate. DeSantis disappeared and Nikki Haley and Mike Pence stood out. But…
Childers loses two more rulings
Late yesterday afternoon, Judge William Stone denied two motions made by Escambia County Clerk Pam Childers in the lawsuit concerning the county commissioners’ 401a retirement…























