Mayor D.C. Reeves announced at his weekly presser this morning that the city’s compressed natural gas vehicles have now switched to renewable natural gas, contributing to the city’s overall Renewable Energy Goal….
Category: Politics
Real News: Budget, birthday and soccer
Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh discusses the proposed county budget. Pensacola Sports hosts its Kick Start Soccer free clinics offered in Pensacola from July 18 – 20, at the Brent Raider Soccer…
Daily Outtakes: Rebekah Jones Movie Trailer
Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker Josh Fox (GASLAND, AWAKE, A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK) has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to finish Rebekah Jones: Whistleblower. Rebekah Jones is the internationally-celebrated, much-maligned, brilliant, wild-child data scientist…
Blue Angels select officers for 2024 season
The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, selected seven new officers to join the team for the 2024 air show season: three F/A-18E/F Super Hornet pilots, a C-130J Super Hercules…
Viewpoint: This cycling enthusiast votes ‘no’ on Summit proposal
By Gary Sammons At the behest of two city council members (Jared Moore and Jennifer Brahier), the city council voted to spend up to $75,000 from the American Rescue Plan, for a…
Daily Outtakes: DeSantis on the telly
DeSantis to do Interviews The Wall Street Journal reports that Gov. Ron DeSantis will begin to do interviews with newspapers and media outside his safe zone. Why this matters: DeSantis has regularly…
Real News: Friday, July 7
An update released Thursday by the Colorado State University tropical forecast team calls for 18 storms, nine of which are expected to become hurricanes and four of which will reach at least…
Daily Outtakes: Not much help on healthcare
Tackling Healthcare Senate President Kathleen Passidomo wants to take steps during the 2024 legislative session to tackle healthcare access. On the “Deeper Dive with Dara Kam” podcast, the Naples Republican – with…
Daily Outtakes: Filling in the news gaps
Officer on Paid Leave The officer that shot and killed a suspect in Cantonment last week is on paid administrative leave pending the results of the investigation by Florida Department of Law…
DeSantis publishes invalid out-of-state license classes
Governor Ron DeSantis announced today the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has published a list of out-of-state license classes that are invalid in Florida as of July 1,…
Daily Outtakes: Safe Streets, Scary Sea
The City of Pensacola’s Draft Active Transportation Plan is now available for review and comment. Its purpose is to create comfortable streets for people walking, bicycling, or wheeling around the City. The…
Viewpoint: For Summit Boulevard, it’s safety in numbers
By Phil Nickinson We need to make up our minds. Do we want our streets to be slower and safer? Or faster and more dangerous? On the north side of Pensacola International…