The City of Pensacola has selected Kerrith Fiddler as the new Assistant City Administrator, responsible for the oversight of the City’s community development departments including Public Works & Facilities, Community Redevelopment Agency and…
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Eight vie to be asst. city administrator
By Jeremy Morrison The city of Pensacola is looking for an assistant city administrator, a lieutenant of sorts for City Administrator Chris Holley. More than a hundred individuals applied for the position,…
Presser Notes: Oysters, Overlay & ‘Parochial Poison’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During this week’s press conference, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson dove into the politics of aquaculture, forecasts some DIB picks and also discussed conflict-of-interest concerns some Milton officials have…
City voters care more for needs of city than individual districts
According to a recent Inweekly/Political Matrix poll, city voters aren’t as concerned about their districts as they are about their city council representatives doing what’s best for the city as whole. In…
City’s mission: ‘Highest quality of life for all citizens’
Inweekly had reporter Jeremy Morrison cover the city’s visioning workshop last week. By most accounts, it was like trying to manage a box of kittens, but the process yielded a draft mission…
Poll: City voters favor cutting bottle club hours
In a InWeekly/Political Matrix poll of 538 likely voters in the city of Pensacola, we found that 40.1 percent supported closing the bottle clubs in Pensacola earlier; changing the closing time from…
Presser: Looking forward to visioning and Amy
By Jeremy Morrison Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson traversed a number of items Monday during his weekly press conference. In addition to filling the media in on what he’s been up to since…
Poll: Residents satisfied with Mayor Robinson
The latest Inweekly/Political Matrix poll of 538 likely voters in the city of Pensacola found that 73 percent of those polled were satisfied with the performance of Mayor Grover Robinson thus far…
Outtakes: Tear down that wall
There is no silver bullet that will fix the crisis in Escambia County’s administration. If the Board of County Commissioners believe an ordinance or hiring a new administrator will turnaround everything in…
Robinson reached out to Lovoy prior to resignation
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson spoke with Escambia County interim administrator Amy Lovoy regarding the prospects of coming to work at the city April 15, shortly before she turned…
Buzz: Robinson to hire another county official
The Pensacola News Journal reports that Assistant County Administrator Matt Coughlin has turned in his 90-day notice of resignation. Inweekly had received several reports that Coughlin, the former commanding officer of NAS…
City: Petition drive failed
City officials say the deadline for the petition drive to disrupt the expansion of MRO campus has passed without the group ever presenting any signatures to city hall. In February, Citizens against…