Category: Politics
TT notes:Walkability, Environment and Neighborhoods
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Three members of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s transition team hosted a joint public input session Monday at the Theophalis May Resource…
Presser Notes: Pitt Slip, Police and Baseball
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During his weekly press conference, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson touched on a number of topics, ranging from Triumph Gulf Coast, to…
LWV tackles DV
Know More about Domestic Violence Directors of Favor House, a certified domestic violence center serving Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, will present information on domestic…
Locals ‘deep dive’ into climate change
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola’s recent climate change report is due for a deep a dive, as officials prepare to consider potentially…
City departments discuss missions
By Jeremy Morrison –The first community input session of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s transition team to focus on governance operations felt a little like a…
Transition Team Heads Into Busy Season
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly As they prepare to plow into a month full of public input sessions, members of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s transition team…
Voter restoration begins Jan. 8
The Escambia County Supervisor of Elections will begin processing applications from previously ineligible voters beginning Tuesday, Jan. 8, the effective date of the Voting Restoration…
Olson pocketed $87K with resignation
On Aug. 3, 2018, Mayor Ashton Hayward’s office announced through a press release that Olson had “relinquished” his role as city administrator. “Eric has helped…
Century Town Council members charged
The Office of the State Attorney announced today that three members of the Century Town Council, Sandra McMurray Jackson, Ann Cofield Brooks, and Luis Gomez,…
‘Fully staffed’ PPD short 30 officers
On Oct. 11, 2017, the City of Pensacola posted on its official Facebook page that the Pensacola Police Department was “fully staffed.” Last week, Pensacola…
Yikes: 92 city employees have contracts
Mayor Grover Robinson has 92 holdovers that have employement contracts that give them more than two weeks of severance, according to public records. The number…
The rise of Dick Barker
Richard Barker did very well in the Hayward Administration, seeing his annual pay increase about $19K over the eight years. When Hayward was campaigning for…
More Transition Team meetings
4:30- 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7 Topic: Environment, Raking/Traffic/Walkability, Neighborhoods at Theophalis May Community Resource Center, 1301 W. Gregory St. Hosts: Drew Buchanan, Christian Wagley,…
Mayor brings back town halls
Mayor Grover Robinson will hold his first town hall meeting 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24 at the Woodland Heights Resource Center, 111 Berkley Dr. “I’m…
Presser Notes: Monuments, settlements and more
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly While much of the city still seemed sleepy and snug in the fog of the holidays, the weekly press conference at…
Transition Team Schedule
The City of Pensacola Mayoral Transition Team meeting on Thursday, Jan. 3, beginning at 10 a.m. until noon in the Hagler Mason Conference Room, Second…
Transition team looks at ‘holes’ in public safety
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Pensacola citizens had the opportunity Saturday, Dec. 29 to let the city’s administration know their thoughts concerning the community’s public safety….
80 City staff have severance packages
The standard severance pay for employees is two-weeks salary but apparently not so at Pensacola City Hall since 2010. During the Q&A period of his…
City Attorney transition process
Inweekly asked Mayor Grover Robinson to explain the process for the transition of city attorney position from Lysia Bowling to Susan Woolf. He said that…
Mayor optimistic about Project Titan
Mayor Grover Robinson remains optimistic about Project Titan, the code name given to the building of three more hangars to create a MRO (maintenance, repair…























