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What Pensacola listened to last week:

Posted on October 26, 2024

Listeners enjoyed hearing about Home Base Pensacola and today’s Human Trafficking Conference. They also enjoyed listening to our entire shows while driving or working out. 1. Home Base Pensacola Home Base is…

Outtakes: Two-way city streets

Posted on October 25, 2024

Last night, the Pensacola City Council approved Mayor D.C. Reeves’ recommendation to relocate $490,000 and $310,000 Housing Assistance for facility reorganization and security upgrades at Pensacola City Hall and to contribution to…

Pensacola Airport receives $4 million FAA grant

Posted on October 24, 2024

The Pensacola International Airport announced receiving a $4 million grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Terminal Program (ATP). This grant marks the first…

Real News: Ice Flyers’s fun, loud crowds, UWF students help American Magic

Posted on October 24, 2024

Team owner Greg Harris shares the highlights of the Oct. 19 season opener and previews this Saturday’s game versus Birmingham at the Pensacola Bay Center. Dr. Michael Reynolds, chair of the UWF…

Community Health launches Baby Bucks

Posted on October 24, 2024

Community Health Northwest Florida has a new program for pregnant women to help them get the support and services needed for a healthy pregnancy. “Baby Bucks” is designed to provide encouragement to…

New CyberSkills2Work training pathways seek applications

Posted on October 24, 2024

The University of West Florida Center for Cybersecurity is pleased to launch four new CyberSkills2Work training pathways for 2025 and is now accepting applications for enrollment. The program provides FREE cybersecurity training…

Foiling Week accepting entries

Posted on October 24, 2024

With four months to go, entries are now open for Foiling Week Pensacola 2025, the multi-class “World Sailing Special Event” to be held in Florida from February 24th to March 2nd 2025….

Daily Outtakes: Questions about St. Michael crashes and OLF-8 answered

Posted on October 24, 2024

Earlier this week, I received this email: Inweekly Friends, How many cars are going to crash through the fences around St. Michael’s Cemetery before the City and/or DOT do something to prevent…

Real News: Argos, Voting, OLF-8 billion, Sextortion and more

Posted on October 23, 2024

FloridaWest’s Rick Byars discusses the Haas Center study of light industrial uses at OLF-8. Pensacola State College president Dr. Ed Meadows talks about the A&P Aviation Mechanics program starting in January. Supervisor…

All of Us Journey

Posted on October 23, 2024

The Wright Institute for Global and Population Health, housed in UWF’s Usha Kundu, MD College of Health, will sponsor the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Journey, a traveling educational exhibit…

CivicCon: Stop Youth Bullying

Posted on October 23, 2024

Tom Dahlborg will speak at the Wesley Abbey Building of First United Methodist Church on Monday, October 28, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Wesley Abbey is the white building on the corner…

Human Trafficking Conference, Oc t. 26

Posted on October 23, 2024

Magdalene’s is hosting a free Human Trafficking Conference to open dialogue about sexual exploitation and to equip teens and the people who love them on how to spot it, stop it and…

Daily Outtakes: City of Milton audit finds no fraud

Posted on October 23, 2024

The City of Milton received the preliminary findings from the Florida Auditor General’s operational audit. No fraud, waste, abuse, or illegal activity were identified. “The audit’s recommendations focus on enhancing internal policies…

Real News: Kinsella’s takeaways

Posted on October 22, 2024

City Administrator Tim Kinsella filled in for Mayor D.C. Reeves on “Real News” this morning. We talked about his first three weeks on the job. “It’s been a joy in the first…

Home Base Pensacola coming to Northwest Florida

Posted on October 22, 2024

Home Base is a national non-profit started by the Boston Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital in 2009. Its mission is to heal the invisible wounds of war by providing service…

Chamber sends letter to BCC about OLF-8

Posted on October 22, 2024

Pensacola Chamber chair David Deliman has sent a letter to the Escambia Board of County Commissioners supporting the use of a portion of OLF-8 for Light Industrial, as outlined in the OLF-8…

Escambia sets Early Voting record in its first day

Posted on October 22, 2024

On “Real News with Rick Outzen” this morning, Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender reports on Escambia County’s record-setting first day of Early Voting. For Monday, Oct. 21: 8,517 cast. The best day…

Daily Outtakes: Good news for us, Bad news for Beulah Nimbys, Developers

Posted on October 22, 2024

Since Escambia County acquired the 636 acres in 2018, Outlying Landing Field 8 (OLF-8) has been controversial. Navy Federal Credit Union bought a hundred acres, leaving the public to debate what to…

Breaking: Early voting may set record for first day in Escambia

Posted on October 21, 2024

Escambia County Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender says the county may have four sites that will record over a 1,000 votes. As of 3:30 p.m. 6,092 votes had been cast. In 2020,…

Pensacola Museum of Art to celebrate 70 years

Posted on October 21, 2024

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Pensacola Museum of Art becoming an art center in Pensacola. In honor of this milestone, the museum is hosting a series of events during…

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