Escambia County population growth slows
The New York Times did an this week on how the demographics are changing for counties around the country – Minorities Now Form Majority in…
Gannett denies sale
Yesterday the IN Daily News reported (Gannett Selling?)on buzz on the Wall Street Journal that Gannett (owner of the Pensacola News Journal, Bella, Pelican, Home…
Presidential polls
The Kitchens Group – Florida political consulting, marketing and polling firm – has released a Florida poll showing party frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani…
Guiliani names local chairman
GOP presidential candidate Rudy Guiliani has named Kristi Emmons his campaign chairman for Escambia County. Greg Evers was named the Santa Rosa County chair earlier…
Lessons from County Salaries
What I saw when I reviewed the Escambia County salaries was: 1. We have a great deal of duplication between constitutional officers. Our first step…
Record Day for Inweekly.net
Our website – inweekly.net – had the most visitors in single day, 9322, on Thursday. This shatters our previous record by nearly 2000! We received…
Who makes what?
The Independent News felt that while we’re debating our county budget and whether or not we should consolidate both between constitutional officers and with the…
Hall has a myspace
Apparently freshman Pensacola city councilman Sam Hall was once a deejay. Check out www.myspace.com/pensacolalive365
Sign of the times
Nine Mile Road mainstay is closing after 50 years. Ray Cranford’s Barbecue just hasn’t recovered from Hurricane Ivan and has been losing money. Folks, the…
Surprise, surprise. Miller says we are winning war
Our Congressman Jeff Miller and five other members of a U.S. congressional delegation spent Monday meeting with the U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David…
GB tables accident surcharge
The Gulf Breeze City Council had a change of heart at its regular council meeting last night and voted to table an ordinance designed to…
Edwards campaign strategy
…or “How to attack Hillary Clinton’s lead and show you’re a viable candidate.” Democratic presidential contender John Edwards is criticizing former President Clinton, arguing that…
Fewer voters in Florida
The state voter rolls show that we have few people registered to vote in Florida than we did three years ago. Why? In 2005, the…
County Budgets are online
Escambia County has its proposed budget up on the web – Proposed Budget for FY 2007/2008 – $415,581,059. Santa Rosa County’s link is 2007-2008 Tentative…
New INweekly website
Check out new website. We’ve added several new features, including daily news, A&E, Music and Film/TV reports. Plus, you can check on the blog, too….
Local guests at Clinton event
From Duwayne Escobedo: It’s not too late to get your $2,300 tickets for the exclusive Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in Destin. Former President Bill Clinton is…
Letter from BDI on red clay
Here is a letter dated August 2, 2007 to Santa Rosa Island Authority board members. Read No red clay
BDI adamant about red clay
From IN editor Duwayne Escobedo: RED CLAY DEBATE There are a few issues on Pensacola Beach that will always start a melee, like condos, taxes,…
ECAT gets a reprieve
The Escambia County commission agreed to help fund the Escambia County Area Transit through Sept. – $102,000. The company managing ECAT will put up $63K…
Moby choices
Am I the only one who notices PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien is in an O’pine rut? I guess when it’s raining, he can’t walk over…
