The cover story in the Feb. 23 edition of Inweekly features Celestine Elizabeth Tolliver Harrison, her family and the bed and breakfast named in her honor. It’s a Pensacola story that we’re…
UWF Students join statewide walkout
Protest DeSantis Education Moves by Jeremy Morrison On Thursday, students at the University of West Florida joined with thousands of other students on high school and college campuses across the state in…
Breaking: School Board to vote on returning to elected superintendent
Ellen Odom, the general counsel for the Escambia County School Board, has notified the Escambia County Commission that District 1 School Board member Kevin Adams has announced his intention to present a…
ReadyKids! announces Read Across Pensacola Day and Community Celebration
This March, ReadyKids! is thrilled to announce the kick-off of National Reading Month with the official proclamation and celebration of Read Across Pensacola Day. Every year on March 2, the National Education…
Holding Google accountable
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google arguing that the tech giant should not be immune from suit for its own alleged conduct in recommending and/or…
Omaha 360 combats gun violence
ABC News’ Brad Garrett has talked about gun violence and ways to reduce it, but the missing piece has always been communities’ commitment and law enforcement’s collaboration with them. That’s why he…
ECT should be ‘laser focused’
Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May is disappointed that the $5.1 million handed out by the Escambia Children’s Trust last week didn’t focus on the children living in pockets of poverty. He believes…
Visit Pensacola seeks grant requests for events
Do you need funding to promote an event in Escambia County? Visit Pensacola is now accepting grant applications for its event marketing program for events in Escambia County occurring between Oct. 1,…
Presser Notes: Tallahassee Field Trip & After-School Care
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves recently returned from a trip to Tallahassee, where he met with state legislators and officials. “And certainly, with a new administration, to make introductions…
Board approves Corcoran salary
From The News Service of Florida: The state university system’s Board of Governors on Wednesday approved a contract for Richard Corcoran to lead New College of Florida amid an effort by Gov….
Real News: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023
Other podcasts from today’s show: Parents and loved ones of the 19 students and two teachers who died in the Robb Elementary massacre in May say they’ve been had by a man…
Latest Inweekly goes live
My Outtakes covers the new interest from the developers in OLF-8 From the article: Four years ago, a lot of effort was put into making people believe that the county’s purchase of…
Do Mayokis have the blessing of Native American tribes?
The once-daily newspaper reported on protests criticizing the Mayokis, a fictitious white Krewe that has been a part of Fiesta Pensacola celebrations for over 60 years, in June 2018. The Mayokis then…
Pillow talk about Christian Nationalism
By Jeremy Morrison MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — a Trump-era caricature growing even more cartoonish in hindsight — has largely been relegated to the political fringe. Even as a panelist on the…
ECT: A failure to connect
The Escambia Children’s Trust’s executive director, Tammy Greer, appeared before the school board on Monday and responded to criticism that the ECT only awarded two out-of-school time grants to agencies in north…
Real News: Rick talks Mayoki, Mayors touch on Economic Development
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves talks about the requests the city will be asking of the Department of Economic Opportunity. He also discusses the importance of the Hollice T. Williams Park. Former Mayor…
Superintendent pushed to pull books without board vote
School Board Yanks Three More Books By Jeremy Morrison Before getting down to tossing three more titles out of the Escambia County School District, school board members suggested that Superintendent Tim Smith…
Psst, Mental Health Task Force met again
The Mental Health Task Force of Northwest Florida met again last week in private. No announcement of the meeting appeared on its website, and no minutes of the meeting and other past…
Teen girls struggling with mental health after pandemic
According to new CDC data released last week, nearly three in five U.S. teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, double that of boys. Almost a third of female teens…
Fiesta breaks up with Mayokis, sorta
Fiesta Pensacola has notified the Mayokis that the it will no longer hold a Landing Ceremony or formally send its court to the Mayoki Ball or pub crawl. Why? Fiesta wrote, “Fiesta’s…