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Presser Notes: ‘Every Single Thing We Want to Do’
By Jeremy Morrison With two meaty items falling on the Pensacola City Council’s table this week, Mayor Grover Robinson used his regular weekly presser Monday as a platform to launch into a…
DIB Seeks Finance Committee member
Pensacola’s Downtown Improvement Board is looking for a new member for its Finance Committee. The Pensacola Downtown Improvement Board (DIB) is a dependent special agency funded by a tax levy on properties…
Presser Notes: No MOU, FEMA Funds & Scooter Stunts
By Jeremy Morrison With a stretch of wet weather moving through the region, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said city streets were looking good thus far, though he cautioned there could be some…
Presser Notes: Soccer Success, Campout Transition & COVID
by Jeremy Morrison Prior to getting into the meat of his weekly presser Monday morning, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson turned things over to Brian Wyer, executive director of the Gulf Coast Minority…
I-110 Homeless Camp stays for now
City Will Work to Transition Away From Site by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The homeless encampment underneath a downtown stretch of Interstate-110 overpass can remain in place a bit longer without campers having…
Footprint in the Sand
Pensacola’s Energy Assessment Measures Municipal Energy Usage by Jeremy Morrison Pensacola’s long-awaited environmental assessment has arrived. This week, the city unveiled its baseline greenhouse gas emissions results, essentially establishing a municipal carbon…
Homeless Task Force presents plan
By Jeremy Morrison The Homeless Reduction Task Force of Northwest Florida presented a report to the Pensacola City Council Monday on how best to spend $3 million in federal American Rescue Plan…
Presser Notes: Silver linings, I-110 Evictions, Wrestling with noise
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly There’s still a lot of folks in the hospital due to COVID-19. But less than last week. And that is the silver lining Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson chose…
Monoclonal antibody treatment site coming to Bayview Park
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by Floridians who have received monoclonal antibody treatments, and announced that Florida will open a new monoclonal antibody treatment site in Escambia County at Bayview Community…
Pensacola to seek path forward for food trucks [podcast]
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly About a week or so ago, the city of Pensacola began enforcing a parking ordinance that effectively prohibits food trucks from operating on public property, like parking spaces…
Real News podcast: Stafford on redistricting
On NewsTalk 1370 WCOA, Escambia County Supervisor of Elections David Stafford gave an update on how the 2020 US Census has impacted the city, county and school board districts. He also talked…