Posted in News Pensacola

City Manager memo shows City knew that there was no assignment of Pitt Slip lease to The Fish House

It took some digging through the City of Pensacola archives on Fortis but we found a memorandum by City Manager Tom Bonfield to the city…

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Posted in Caring

Benefit for homeless veterans and their families

What: Wine Tasting, Music & Art To Support the Home for the Holidays program for homeless veteran families When: 5-10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, 2014…

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Posted in Business

House of Sticks: Where have all the retirement savings gone

By Kent Lyndon Inside Wall Street and the world of stocks, bonds and banking with someone who knows where the skeletons are: When stock markets…

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Posted in Crime

Hate crimes double in Pensacola

The Pensacola area saw the number of its reported hate crimes double in 2012 from the prior year, according to a report released Tuesday by…

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Judge Johnson resigns

The Honorable Thomas E. Johnson, Escambia County Judge, has tendered his resignation from office for retirement to be effective Monday, March 31, 2014.  Judge Johnson…

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PNJ source for stories against former public defender and war hero suspended from practicing law

On Dec. 31, the Florida Supreme Court announced it has suspended Pensacola attorney Gene Polk for 90 days, followed by a three-year probation. He was…

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Outtakes #1: UCF Nightmare Too Close to Home

The phone call was one I never thought I would get from my youngest daughter. “Dad, I’m okay. The campus security has the gunman. He’s…

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Posted in Entertainment

Carmen Meet the Artists Luncheon RSVP deadline tomorrow

Carmen Meet the Artists Luncheon on Tuesday, January 7th at 11:30 a.m. Pensacola Opera and the University of West Florida’s Leisure Learning Society will co-host…

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News story #1: Satoshi Forest

The Independent News has covered homelessness in this area for years. Jesse Farthing touched the hearts of many locals with this article on this unique…

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Posted in Escambia County Protests

News story #2: Failure to Serve

At September Escambia County Commission meeting, a half-dozen disabled citizens and bus drivers appeared before the commissioners to speak against the extension of the ADA…

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News story #3: Talking Trash

Escambia County and Emerald Coast Utility Authority have squared off over the future of solid waste collection, recycling and disposal in the county. The battle…

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Posted in Veterans

IN cover #3: Not Invisible Anymore, The Reality of Rape in the Military

Sexual assaults in the military and how poorly the military command has handled them were big national stories. We found that the rapes were also…

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