By Samantha Sontag INWEEKLY After a 4 ½-hour meeting Monday evening, the Escambia County Commissioners voted to embrace change with a 3-2 vote in favor of closing Rawson Lane at the request…
Category: Politics
Podcast: ‘Giant Killers’ Levin Papantonio Tackle Terrorism
‘Giant killer’ Mike Papantonio and his team at Levin Papantonio, along with six other national firms, filed a lawsuit (Holladay, et al. v. Iran) on May 15, in the United States District…
Putnam: We should not let complacency creep into the state [podcast]
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam announced two weeks ago his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. Gov. Rick Scott terms out in 2018, and the race is considered wide-open. On May…
38th Chip Boes Championship Basketball Camp starts next month
The 38th Chip Boes Championship Basketball Camp hosted by the City of Pensacola Department of Parks and Recreation Sports Speciality Summer Camp Program will conduct three fun filled sessions for boys and…
State concealed-weapon database hacked
From The News Service of Florida: Nearly 500 people may have had their Social Security numbers obtained in a data breach at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Also, the…
Videos of Carpenter’s Creek clean-up
This past weekend, the Emerald Coastkeepers led another clean-up of Carpenter’s Creek. Councilwoman Sherri Myers took these videos of the effort. She gave me this description of the photo above: “This is…
City of Pensacola holds first public input meeting of 2017
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward will seek public input for the new community center in one of the city’s most popular parks. The City of Pensacola is undertaking the building of a new…
Florida Senate budget chair wants a veto, too
By Duwayne Escobedo INWEEKLY Florida Sen. Jack Latvala told the Tiger Bay Club Friday that he asked Gov. Rick Scott to veto the education spending bill that the state House and Senate…
Event Reminder: Pensacola Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival, May 20-21
The third annual Pensacola Lionfish Removal and Awareness Day Festival will take place Saturday and Sunday May 20-21 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Plaza de Luna, located at 900 S….
Hands Across the Sand
350 Pensacola and Oceana to Host Hands Across the Sand Event on Pensacola Beach Event to Oppose New Efforts to Expand Dirty and Dangerous Offshore Drilling Pensacola, FL– Conservation groups 350 Pensacola…
Putnam in Pensacola tomorrow, on radio today
GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam will join small businesses in Pensacola for a roundtable discussion on the Gulf Coast recovery. Next, he will meet and greet supporters in Destin. Finally as part…
Constitutional panel wrestles with Sunshine Law
By BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA A panel of the state Constitution Revision Commission deferred a decision Wednesday on how to follow open-government laws as commissioners undertake the once-every-20-years process…