Category: Politics

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas defended his rollback of the millage rate to the Pensacola News Journal saying the revenue cut couldn’t have improved teachers’ salaries. Thomas…

State Rep. Mike Hill has deleted his controversial Twitter account, @MikeHillFL. Hill had blocked several journalists, including Andy Marlette and me, from seeing his tweets,…

Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas told WEAR TV that out of the over 100 applicants only 18 passed the screening process to be…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly With Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson out of town, City Administrator Chris Holley fielded the weekly press conference Monday morning. The administrator…

The talk among the sheriff’s deputies is the Escambia County School District may not have enough campus security guards to protect all the district’s public…

Parents have contacted Inweekly about the Escambia County School Board’s vote yesterday to cut the millage from 6.325 in 2018-2019, to 6.043 in 2019-2020. In…

The Drug Enforcement Administration has a database that tracks every single pain pill sold in the United States — by manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies…

Inweekly has been blessed with many gifted writers. Christopher Scott Satterwhite has provided a scholarly approach to his work. It comes naturally to Satterwhite, since…

Last year, Marcus May, the founder of Newpoint Education Partners, was convicted of stealing over $5.2 million through a complicated scheme involving Newpoint-managed charter schools…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Pensacola City Council this week is settling in for two days of workshops to review Mayor Grover Robinson’s proposed budget…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Alluding to conversations with citizens in the wake of a fatal police shooting, Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday that is committed…

The Escambia County School Board is reviewing the proposed job description and district policies regarding the district’s appointed superintendent of schools. The proposals passed out…

Every year Killer Nashville receives hundreds of submissions for its Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards for the best books of the previous year. “City of…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola plans to borrow $17 million to be used for unspecified — though, heavily suggested — projects within…

“City of Grudges” is a finalist for the 2019 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award in the Thriller category. Killer Nashville is one of the most…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding the City of Pensacola a $12.25 million grant to further efforts to build out…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Laid out along a long table is a bird’s-eye satellite image of West Cervantes Street depicting potential safety improvements planned for…

Around 90 million American workers will require some degree of new training to hold onto their jobs in the near future, according to Andy Van…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Pensacola City Council this week is looking at potential revisions to the city’s tree ordinance. Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy — who…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola’s recently released proposed budget for the next fiscal year took center stage during Mayor Grover Robinson’s weekly…