Vote for Foo Foo Fest

The Pensacola Foo Foo Festival has once again been named a finalist in the category of “Best Cultural Festival” in the 2023Hemispheres’Readers’ Choice Awards. Readers…

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LPR team reaches $1.2 billion settlement with Dupont

Levin Papantonio Rafferty’s years of fighting for clean water is paying off. A national settlement in the amount of $1.185 billion has been reached between…

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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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Pot amendment gets signatures

From The News Service of Florida: Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana have surpassed a required number of…

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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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Last Word: Laura McKay

Laura McKay Inweekly, 12/9/2007 The 1620 AM NewsRadio afternoon news anchor has more than 20 years experience in radio and TV broadcasting. She recently worked…

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Lexington Terrace Park options

Escambia County District 2 Commissioner Mike Kohler and Parks and Recreation will hold a public meeting Wednesday, June 7 at 4 p.m. at Lexington Terrace…

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Charter Schools USA interview

On WCOA this morning, Dr. Eddie Ruiz, Charter Schools USA’s Florida state superintendent, discussed his expectations for Warrington Middle School. Why take on the challenge…

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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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Tim Smith gone, Malcolm Thomas back

The day Keith Leonard takes over as interim school superintendent, Malcolm Thomas reappears. This email has been sent out: URGENT: Escambia School District Prayer &…

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Daily Outtakes: Major Milestone Hit

Kudos to Gupta & IRIS Intelligent Retinal Imaging Systems (IRIS), the Pensacola-based leader in retinal screening technology, announced a significant milestone with the achievement of…

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Last Word: Leroy Boyd

In July 2005, we started “The Last Word,” a column in which locals answer questions about themselves. It was patterned after Vanity Fair’s The Proust…

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Real News: Let’s talk secession

If quality of place is critical to Pensacola’s future, it’s time for the city to secede from the Escambia County School District and create its…

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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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Daily Outtakes: For the sake of the children

Assistant Superintendent Keith Leonard will serve as interim superintendent for Escambia County Public Schools through June 30, 2024. The board unanimously voted to put him…

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