Surveillance video from a city park in Wichita, Kansas, has provided crucial clues about the people responsible for stealing a life-sized statue of baseball legend and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson last…
Real News 1/31/24
Pensacola City Councilwoman Jennifer Brahier discusses the importance of saving the Cobb Center. A full structural assessment will cost $175,000. Walker Wilson discusses his plan to move into District 4, the district…
Bender to be sworn into office today (Video added)
Robert Bender will officially take office today. His swearing-in ceremony is at 1 p.m. in the Supervisor of Elections Office, 213 Palafox Place, Second Floor.
Daily Outtakes: Residency question
One of the potential candidates to complete the term of District 4 County Commission Robert Bender may have a residency problem. Walker Wilson, who ran for the District 3 school board seat…
Real News 1/30/24
American Magic skipper Terry Hutchinson will be in Pensacola on Monday, Feb. 26. Mayor D.C. Reeves hopes to have the Port lease finalized and approved by the Pensacola City Council before he…
Why Buck Mitchell is running
Buck Mitchell gave his first interview since pre-filing for County Commission District 4 on WCOA’s “Real News with Rick Outzen.” “Robert did a great job representing District 4, and we really feel…
Cox employees buy glasses for kids
Cox Communications employees have awarded a total of $7,000 in grants to local non-profits, through Cox Charities Community Investment Grants. The program provides employee funded grants of up to $5,000 to support…
Presser takeaways: Portland Loos coming
At his presser this morning, Mayor D.C. Reeves announced that three of the five Portland Loos ordered will be shipped on Feb. 21. “It’ll be about two to three weeks once they…
For Taylor Swift: West Wing computes Tokyo flight time
As Sena told us on “Real News” this morning,Taylor Swift can make it from her Tokyo concert to Super Bowl LVIII in time to see Travis Kelce play. The West Wing did…
Daily Outtakes: Buck jumps in
Seville Quarter’s Buck Mitchell has pre-filed to run for the Escambia County Commission District 4 seat. He told me yesterday that he is running regardless of whom Gov. Ron DeSantis appoints to…
Real News 1/29/24
NorthEscambia.com reported last week that EREC and ConexonConnect have completed Escambia County’s fiber-to-the-home project for the county’s rural areas in District 5. County Commissioner Steven Barry discusses the accomplishment. Coach Stephanie Yelton…
Bender on appointment
On WCOA this morning, Interim Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender gave his first full interview since Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the appointment at 2:20 p.m. on Friday. He was given a little…
Community Health gets research grant
A Community Health Northwest Florida resident is a recipient of a $5,000 highly competitive research grant that will be used to help patients in underserved rural North Florida using antibiotics to treat…
Military academy appointments
Congressman Matt Gaetz last week announced his 2024 Service Academy Nominations for Florida’s First Congressional District. These are the ones from Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY Jacob Lawrence,…
Daily Outtakes: The Bender Conversation
Last Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Escambia County Commissioner Robert Bender to be the county’s interim Supervisor of Elections. The first time the public got any hint Bender was interested in the…
Breaking: Bender appointed Supervisor of Elections
Press Release: Governor Ron DeSantis Appoints Robert Bender as Escambia County Supervisor of Elections TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Robert Bender as Escambia County Supervisor of…
Real News: Movies, Mardi Gras and more
On Apple TV+, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are once again revisiting WWII with the limited series “Masters of The Air,” about the Air Force bomber group known as The Bloody Hundredth….
Remembering Bobby
On “Real News,” we often talk about Sena Maddison’s great-uncle, a WWII pilot killed on a bombing mission. This article was first published in Inweekly on Nov. 11, 2010 Missing WWII Pilot…
Escambia’s shrinking Class of 2023
When the 2023 high school graduation class started high school in 2019, the ninth grade had 3,215 students. Four years later, the 12th grade had only 2,606 students – a 20% loss….
Daily Outtakes: Escambia graduation rate falls, while state rises
On Monday, the Florida Department of Education announced that the state’s 2022–23 high school graduation rate climbed to 88%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points over the previous school year and a…
