Category: Politics
County terminates contract for jail construction
Whitesell-Green/Caddell sued Escambia County, alleging the county still owes the company $3.4 million for the construction of the new county jail. The county has countered…
Real News: Friday, Jan. 20, 2023
The University of West Florida announced a $250,000 gift from Rhonda and Jerry Maygarden to the Maygarden Family Scholarship Endowment at the UWF Foundation and…
Real News: Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023
Commissioner Robert Bender discusses the Florida’s Auditor General’s preliminary findings of its operational audit of the Tourist Development Tax collections. The search warrant of Moscow…
Miraflores Burial Ground Study group announced
Mayor D.C. Reeves has selected 10 individuals to serve as the Miraflores Burial Ground Study Community Advisory Group, which will assist the City of Pensacola…
Real News: Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023
Escambia School Superintendent Tim Smiths discusses the drop in graduation rates and the challenges facing children in the post-pandemic world. SNAP (Stop Now and Plan)…
Auditor releases preliminary findings on TDC collections
Florida’s Auditor General has sent the Escambia Board of County Commissioners (BCC) three preliminary and tentative audit findings with recommendations that may be included in…
Real News: Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2023
We Are Perdido is holding a neighborhood meeting to discuss incorporating the Perdido area. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan….
Real News: Monday, Jan. 16, 2023
Escambia County Commissioner Mike Kohler discusses the Living the Dream celebration and the issues in District 2. Escambia County School Board School Board Member Kevin…
Perdido looking at incorporation
The media and residents of Perdido are invited to join We Are Perdido on Monday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. for the first neighborhood meeting…
Real News: Friday, Jan. 13, 2023
Today, a memorial for the victims of the Dozier School for Boys will be unveiled. LPR Attorneys Mike Papantonio and Troy Rafferty are investigating the…
Sheriff’s Roundtable – Round 2
Escambia County Gun Violence Round Table on Wednesday, Jan. 18 The public is invited to attend the Escambia County Gun Violence Round Table hosted by…
City rolls dice on art again
The Chute Des Cubes public art unveiling ceremony scheduled for today at Admiral Mason Park was rescheduled to Friday, Jan. 27 at 4 p.m. due…
Reeves headed to Harvard
Here is the official announcement on what we reported earlier this week: The Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Just City Lab have announced the 2023…
Real News: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023
Pensacola International Airport director Matt Coughlin discusses how the FAA computer issues yesterday impacted flights. Tim Kinsella discusses the Mayor’s Transition Team report. As the…
Pensacola to study burial ground at Miraflores Park
Pensacola to Study Burial Ground at Miraflores Park by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Following the discovery of human remains in Miraflores Park and verification that the…
Real News: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023
State Rep. Alex Andrade has a different take on Congressman Matt Gaetz’s opposition to Rep. Kevin McCarthy becoming Speaker of the House: “You can’t fix…
Archives show Havana Square was a ‘negro graveyard’ in 1887
Yesterday, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves announced that as a result of research following the discovery of human remains at Miraflores Park in June 2021, the…
Presser Notes: How Best to Spend Last Year’s Leftovers?
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly While on vacation in South America, Mayor D.C. Reeves received some troubling news: a longtime Pensacola business, the Apple Market, had…
Real News: Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves discusses his MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship, among other things. The City of Pensacola has installed two new 4-way stops and…
Mayor announces investments in Public Safety, City Strategic Planning and Maintenance
Last week, Mayor D.C. Reeves hinted this on my radio show. Today, he announced plans to allocate funding from the City of Pensacola’s budget to…























