Category: Politics

By Jeremy Morrison Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson traversed a number of items Monday during his weekly press conference. In addition to filling the media in…

The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 139 met yesterday and overwhelmingly approved the labor agreement with Escambia County Area Transit. The union also expressed its displeasure…

The latest Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 538 likely voters in the city of Pensacola found that 73 percent of those polled were satisfied with the…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Friday afternoon, in downtown Pensacola’s Plaza Ferdinand, local youth will gather to raise awareness about the issue of climate change. The…

The Escambia Professional Firefighters union sent this letter last night: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Administrator Lavoy, We, the Escambia County Professional Firefighters, are disappointed to…

Escambia County Fire Chief Rusty Nail was hired in May 2018. Over the past month, he has resigned, attempted to rescind his resignation and seen…

From: “Amy L. Lovoy” <allovoy@myescambia.com>Date: May 1, 2019 at 10:41:56 AM CDTTo: “chiefrustynail@gmail.com” <chiefrustynail@gmail.com>Cc: Matthew Coughlin <MCOUGHLIN@myescambia.com>, “Alison A. Rogers” <aarogers@co.escambia.fl.us>, John Dosh <JSDOSH@co.escambia.fl.us>, “Addison R. Lavaway” <ARLAVAWAY@myescambia.com>, District1…

Escambia County Fire Chief Rusty Nail sent this following letter rescinding his resignation: TO: Amy Lovoy, Interim County Administrator VIA: Matt Coughlin, Interim Public Safety…

On Thursday, April 25, United Way of Escambia County’s Board of Directors approved a motion to incorporate Santa Rosa County into the organization’s service area….

This morning Congressman Matt Gaetz called together the top local, state and federal law enforcement officials, including Escambia County David Morgan, Walton County Sheriff Mike…

By Jim Saunders & Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — In one of the most-divisive issues of the 2019 legislative session, the…

There is no silver bullet that will fix the crisis in Escambia County’s administration. If the Board of County Commissioners believe an ordinance or hiring…

When Sean Harris was hit by an SUV on the night of May 15, 2017, the driver pulled over and began to video the scene…

Inweekly reporter Jeremy Morrison met with the parents of Sean Harris and Aubrey Nichols, who both died after being transported by Escambia County’s Emergency Medical…

Escambia County’s two top administrators have resigned. Each gave us cryptic reasons for their departures: ACTING COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR AMY LOVOY: “I find it difficult to…

When former State Sen. W.D. Childers returned to Escambia County in 2000, he easily won election to the Escambia County Commission and took over as…

Late yesterday afternoon, Escambia County Community and Media Relations issued the following statement on the investigation of Emergency Medical Services. The statement makes several key…

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson spoke with Escambia County interim administrator Amy Lovoy regarding the prospects of coming to work at the…

The Pensacola News Journal reports that Assistant County Administrator Matt Coughlin has turned in his 90-day notice of resignation. Inweekly had received several reports that…

City officials say the deadline for the petition drive to disrupt the expansion of MRO campus has passed without the group ever presenting any signatures…