by Jeremy Morrison While the skatepark planned for downtown Pensacola is still at least a year away from becoming a reality, skateboarders will have something to skate on sooner rather than later…
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Oops: Supreme Court has ruled for lower court to rehear Bayview Cross case
The American Humanist Association has announced that the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the rulings of the district court and court of appeals had concluded that Pensacola’s 34-foot-tall Bayview Park cross violates the…
Mayor, dust off plans and go to work
Mayor Grover Robinson doesn’t have to go too far to find ideas about what to do on Moreno Street after Baptist Hospital relocates. There’s the West Side Neighborhood Plan (2005) that called…
Baptist Hospital making a move
Baptist Health Care is moving. Described as “a transformational investment and commitment for generations to come,” plans for a new campus at the corner of Brent Lane and I-110 were announced Wednesday. …
Grover’s big leadership challenge
The announcement that Baptist Health Care is building a $550 million hospital facility on Brent Lane and leaving west Pensacola poses a big leadership challenge for Mayor Grover Robinson. Yes, Robinson helped…
Pensacola has no black majority districts
For decades, the city of Pensacola has had two districts with a majority of African-American voters, Districts 5 and 7, and one that was nearly split evenly between blacks and whites, District…
What happened to $18.7 million for hatchery?
In June 2018, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission asked the City of Pensacola to terminate its lease to build a $18.7-million fish hatchery on Bruce Beach. A year later, the money…
Presser: Few answers, no follow-ups
City Administrator Chris Holley yesterday filled in for Mayor Grover Robinson at the city’s weekly press conference. He was accompanied by City Attorney Susan Woolf, CFO Dick Barker, Assistant Administrator Keith Wilkins,…
Breaking news: SCOTUS rules in favor of cross
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning, by a 7-2 vote, that a cross on government land in Maryland does not have to be moved because it doesn’t violate the Constitution’s establishment…
SCAPE: ‘Another Transformative Moment’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Prior to the plan’s proper unveiling Monday evening at The Rex Theatre, the Pensacola City Council was offered an early-morning glimpse at a proposal for the downtown core…
Bridge Name Game
By Danielle Brown, Inweekly Tensions ran high among Escambia and Santa Rosa County citizens in the final public meeting over renaming the Pensacola Bay Bridge. On Wednesday evening, the Pensacola Bay Bridge…
Town Hall: Y swap questioned
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly One topic dominated the city of Pensacola’s District 1 town hall Wednesday evening at the Vickery Community Center: the potential land-and-services swap between the city and the YMCA…