Gulf Breeze Will Do, a women’s philanthropic group, awarded $46,548 in grants to local organizations at its annual meeting on November 3. Gulf Breeze Will Do (GBWD) was born out of a…
HUD charges local property manager charged discrimination
From HUD: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it has charged Pensacola property manager Jonathan Faircloth with discrimination against a tenant because of her disability. HUD’s…
Former Chief Magistrate Judge Elizabeth M. Timothy appointed to SRIA board
County Commissioner Ashley Hofberger has appointed former Chief Magistrate Judge Elizabeth M. Timothy to serve as the District 4 representative on the Santa Rosa Island Authority. From the Agenda item: “The Santa…
Daily Outttakes: County Commission discusses Escambia Children’s Trust
Escambia Deputy County Attorney Kristin Hual has asked the Board of County Commissioners to discuss the Escambia Children’s Trust request for clarification of the $690,684 refunding Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) dollars that…
Real News: ‘There’s nobody to blame’
Don Gaetz easily won his old Florida Senate seat by 30 percentage points. “Republicans have to understand now at the federal level, at the state level with significant majorities in both houses…
SEC Women’s Soccer excites fans, semifinals on Thursday
The Southeastern Conference Women’s Soccer Tournament is already drawing thousands of attendees to Escambia County’s Ashton Brosnaham Athletic Park. Yesterday, we had four exciting games: Arkansas advanced to the SEC Tournament semifinals…
Pensacola Habitat for Humanity lauds Pride Build campaign
Pensacola Habitat for Humanity wrapped up its inaugural Pride Build campaign with a three-day build week, as 37 volunteers worked together to promote inclusion and community with a first-of-its-kind event in the…
Hurricane Rafael update
Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore says the models have aligned, and we are out of the cone of uncertainty. “We do have a lot of factors in the Gulf, so…
Daily Outtakes: Axios of Evil fails
The Pensacola News Journal, County Clerk Pam Childers, Andrew McKay, Escambia Citizens Watch and the ethically-challenged couple, Doug Underhill and Jonathan Owens, failed to defeat incumbent District 5 Commissioner Steven Barry. No…
No upsets in Escambia elections
State Representative District 1 REP Michelle Salzman (REP) 66.15% State Representative District 2 REP Alex Andrade (REP) 54.55% Board of County Commissioners District 4 Participating Precincts Reporting: 18 / 19 REP Ashlee…
WCOA, Inweekly election night coverage
We will be on the air tonight starting at 6 p.m. We will discuss the voting today, political stategies and the early results. Please listen.
What’s on Mayor Reeves’ To Do List
At his weekly presser, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves discussed the new 10-year strategic plan that Anna Muessig of Gehl will present to the Pensacola City Council during its agenda review on Tuesday,…
Real News, Monday, Nov. 4
I apologize for taking so long to get these interviews up. Yesterday was a full-blown Monday. State Senate candidate Don Gaetz delivered his closing pitch on the eve of election day. “The…
United Way announces mini-grants
The United Way of West Florida is proud to announce the approval of Mini Grant awards for 12 local nonprofits, each receiving up to $5,000, for a total amount of $49,839. These…
Voting today – 22,073 today, total passes 137K
As of 11:50 a.m, turnout approaches 64%: Mail 34,143 24.88% Early Voting 80,805 58.89% Election Day 22,073 16.09% Provisional 198 0.14% Total 137,219
Fact-check: UWF Haas Center did analysis for DPZ, too
It is apparent that PNJ columnist Theresa Blackwell didn’t read the recent University of West Florida study regarding just 46 acres of OLF-8 before she wrote her column attacking the economists. Blackwell…
Tropical Storm Raphael update
Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore expects Raphael to be upgraded to a hurricane later today. The models have it making landfall to the west of us, but where is still…
Daily Outtakes: The Mythical Town of Beulah
News Journal columnist Theresa Blackwell delivered another dram of her wisdom on Sunday, blasting the Escambia County Commission, praising DPZ CoDesign and waxing poetically for a town center for Beulah’s “downtown” to…
We will get an new USPS downtown location
This message was posted on the USPS website last Friday. However, it appears that the USPS will get a new downtown location. USPS Announces Final Decision to Relocate Pensacola, FL Downtown Station…
Breaking: New downtown hotel breaks ground Thursday, Nov. 14
Catalyst HRE, The Thrash Group, and The 1559 Collective in partnership with Tandem Hospitality, will celebrate the official groundbreaking ceremony for Pensacola’s newest destination, Hotel Tristan, Thursday, Nov. 14. Three years ago,…
