Category: Politics
Myers: ‘Commissioner Bender, I will not be ignored”
After reading District 4 Commissioner Robert Bender’s comments in an interview with Inweekly reporter Jeremy Morrison, Pensacola City Councilwoman Sherri Myers called to say she…
gBETA Pensacola hires director
gBETA Pensacola has hired Jonathan Kretz as its program director and is now accepting applications for local startups to participate in the inaugural gBETA Pensacola,…
Santa Rosa County sets daily COVID record – 282 new cases. 33.4% positive
Santa Rosa County has twice the number of new COVID-19 cases as Escambia County, according to the latest report by the Florida Department of Health…
White House eyes nursing home visits
The Trump administration has announced plans to require certain nursing homes to test staff “and visitors†for COVID-19 once a week and opened the door…
Breaking news: Roy Jones to fight Mike Tyson
TMZ reports the Pensacola native Roy Jones, Jr. (age 51) and former world champion boxer will fight former heavy-weight champ Mike Tyson (age 54) in…
County administration disputes 10 COVID deaths
Escambia County’s administration tried to disprove the 10 COVID-19 deaths reported by the Florida Department of Health today, only to find the total is correct….
Face mask update
Face mask mandates continue to increase. On Friday, July 27, the Manatee County Commission is meeting to vote on an executive order that would require…
Dosev, Andrade spar over Gaetz
The battle between State Rep. Alex Andrade and Cris Dosev for the GOP nomination for Andrade’s Florida House District 2 seat flared up today. Dosev…
Was your ancestor in the Ku Klux Klan?
Here is the membership roll from T.T. Wentworth’s ledger. The UWF Historic Trust is digitizing the records and will make them available online soon. Click…
Only a third chose classroom instruction in Escambia
NorthEscambia.com reports that only about a third of parents with school-aged children in the Escambia County School public school system told the district that they…
Wentworth’s sensationalized history of the KKK
In 1927, the editor of the Ku Klux Klan’s monthly periodical “The Kourier,†asked T.T. Wentworth, Jr. to write an article on the rebirth of…
Breaking news: ECAT driver dies of COVID
From the ATU 1395 that represents ECAT bus drivers: “It’s with sadness I must report that ATU Local 1395 has lost a member and our…
Gilley CARES Plan vs. Inweekly COVID-19 Ballsy Plan
In late March, President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) act that gave counties funds to deal with the COVID-19…
Presser notes: Monuments and masks
By Jeremy Morrison Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson now finds himself needing to caveat a recent decision by the Pensacola City Council to remove a Confederate…
Jail guards discourage COVID testing
Commissioners Steven Barry and Lumon May have asked County Administrator Janice Gilley to test all the inmates in the Escambia County Jail. As Friday, July…
Mask message from Walmart
Imagine if County Administrator Janice Gilley cared as much about her employees and the  public and sent out this message. We can’t get her to…
Judge issues temporary injunction blocking monument removal
Judge Gary Bergosh has issued an Emergency Temporary Restraining Order that blocks the city from removing the Confederate monument in Pensacola’s recently renamed Florida Square…
Escambia has ‘COVID Epidemic Outbreak’
Everywhere we look we find reports about the COVID-19 outbreak in Escambia County. Yet, the county leaders – except for Commissioner Lumon May – have…
White House report: Escambia, Santa Rosa in Red Zone
The Center for Public Integrity yesterday published an internal White House report, dated July 14, that says that 18 states are in the “red zone”…
Lawsuit re: Confederate monument
Inweekly has reviewed attorney David Rhodes McCallister’s lawsuit on the behalf of the Ladies Memorial Association, Randall Crooke – a representative of the Stephen Russell…
