The National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM) and the Pensacola Blue Wahoos baseball team are partnering to host a press conference Tuesday where a new, commemorative POW/MIA-inspired uniform patch will be unveiled. The…
Daily Outtakes: Children’s Trust suffers another loss
Kim Krupa submitted her resignation yesterday, effective Oct. 13. Krupa has served for the past year as Escambia Children’s Trust‘s Director of Programs and Performance. The board members were notified after lunch…
Supreme Paper acquired
JERSEY CITY, N.J. & PENSACOLA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Imperial Dade, a leading distributor of foodservice packaging supplies, industrial products, and janitorial supplies, today announced the acquisition of Supreme Paper Supplies. The transaction represents the…
DeSantis appoints Moms for Liberty co-founder to ethics board
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the appointment of Tina Descovich and Luis Fuste to the Florida Commission on Ethics. Tina Descovich Descovich is the Co-Founder of Moms for Liberty….
Broxson makes wealth list
From The News Service of Florida: Florida lawmakers were required to file annual financial-disclosure reports by Friday or face fines. Here are the senators who reported the highest net worths: — Sen….
Daily Outtakes: Johnson hand picks his new board (Updated)
Opening Doors Northwest Florida CEO John Johnson has hand-picked the Continuum of Care (CoC) governance board, whose first meeting will be at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 21, via Zoom. Only two…
New Pensacola Sanitation Collection Schedule
Mayor D.C. Reeves announced the two-day pickup schedule for Pensacola residents: Monday Customers Monday: Garbage and yard waste Thursday: Garbage only Tuesday Customers Tuesday: Garbage and yard waste Friday: Garbage only Wednesday…
Insurers approved to take Citizens policies
As efforts continued to sort out damage from Hurricane Idalia, regulators on Friday approved proposals by seven private insurers to pull as many as 202,000 policies from the state’s Citizens Property Insurance…
Daily Outtakes: Somebody get a marker
On Saturday, Leon County Judge J. Lee Marsh ruled that a congressional redistricting plan pushed through the Legislature by Gov. Ron DeSantis violated the Florida Constitution and needs to be redrawn. Florida…
Real News: Thursday, Aug. 31
I was out most of Thursday and Friday with a stomach bug so I apologize for taking so long to get these posted. Aylstock Within attorney Sam Geisler discusses the lawsuit the…
Pensacola Sports moving to PSC
Pensacola Sports, the organization whose mission is to impact the quality of life, individual health and economic well-being of our community, is moving from its Downtown Pensacola location to the Pensacola State…
Real News podcasts
Trying to catch up: Tuesday, Aug. 29 Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves discusses Kaycee LaGarde’s departure, the latest on ST Engineering and downtown growth. Take Stock in Children recently welcomed 32 new scholarship…
Injunction hearing set in Escambia book fight
A federal judge has scheduled a Sept. 15 hearing in a request for a preliminary injunction in a fight about access in school libraries to the children’s book “And Tango Makes Three.”…
Daily Outtakes: Argo Football tonight
UWF begins its seventh season of football tonight at 6 p.m., welcoming Kentucky Wesleyan to Pen Air Field. The Argonauts are 56-21 all-time and have made four NCAA postseason appearances – all…
Daily Outtakes: ‘Ain’t as bad as it could have been’
Long Recovery Starts for Rural County By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida. PERRY — Several hours after Hurricane Idalia hit, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday went to rural Taylor County,…
Recovery begins in wake of Idalia
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Recovery efforts, including restoring power and searching damaged properties, began Wednesday after Hurricane Idalia made landfall in a sparsely populated area of…
UWF reenacts the trial of James Meredith
University of West Florida Department of Criminology, Criminal Justice and Legal Studies and UWF Department of Theatre will present the James Meredith Trial Reenactment and Q&A at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept….
Idalia now in South Georgia
BULLETIN Hurricane Idalia Advisory Number 16 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL102023 1100 AM EDT Wed Aug 30 2023 …CENTER OF IDALIA CROSSING INTO SOUTHERN GEORGIA… …HIGH WATER LEVELS CONTINUE ALONG…
Daily Outtakes: Idalia now Cat 4, downgraded Cat 3 before landfall
Update – 6:45 am: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE IDALIA MAKES LANDFALL IN THE FLORIDA BIG BEND… …. The media reports it made landfall near Keaton Beach in Taylor County. Escambia County…
Real News – Monday, Aug. 28
In June, Florida House Speaker Paul Renner wrote Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muniz, asking him to form a committee to assess the consolidation of the state’s 20 circuit courts. The…