Daily Outtakes: Westside redevelopment

Buying Pensacola Motor Lodge The City’s Westside Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) will consider a proposal to buy the Pensacola Motor Lodge on West Cervantes Street…

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Hernando to vote on appointed v. elected super

From The News Service of Florida: Amid calls by some Republican lawmakers to remove the Hernando County superintendent of schools, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday…

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Daily Outtakes: Real Conversations

Perdido Beach Access – Some, Not All Escambia County Commissioner Jeff Bergosh reports that the only gulf-front parcels that have public beach easements in their…

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Judge deals with ‘drag show’ legal fight

U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell prepares to hold a hearing Tuesday on a motion by operators of the Orlando restaurant Hamburger Mary’s for a temporary…

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Daily Outtakes: Wrong Spot?

Operation Brownville The law enforcement initiative to “clean-up” of a neighborhood shared by the City of Pensacola and Escambia County will end on Friday, June…

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Buzz: City admin leaves no big deal

WEAR-TV and PNJ are trying to make a big deal of City Neighborhoods administrator Lawrence Powell and Parks & Rec director Adrian Stills going on…

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Last Word: Ed Banacia

Edwin Banacia Senior Director, Media, Ideaworks USA Inweekly, 8/19/2010 What is your chief characteristic? Googleability What do you appreciate most about your friends? Friends? I…

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Big of the Year: Kenon Beasley

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida is proud to announce Kenon Beasley as the recipient of the 2023 Big Brother of the Year award…

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Daily Outtakes: Tough walks, even tougher talks

Filthy School I toured Warrington Middle School yesterday with Charter Schools USA Florida superintendent Dr. Eddie Ruiz and Ana Cordal, Charter USA’s vice president of…

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School rules teed up

The Florida Department of Education is slated on Friday, June 9 to hold a series of online rule-development workshops that would help implement the new…

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It Happened Here: Fiesta of Five Flags

With Fiesta starting today with the  Surrender of the City, I thought it would be fun to reprint this column from 12 years ago. There…

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Visit Florida has a plan

Armed with an $80 million budget -a $30 million jump over the current budget, Visit Florida staff members have crafted a tourism-marketing plan intended to…

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