Posted in Education Politics

Struggling district cuts millage

Parents have contacted Inweekly about the Escambia County School Board’s vote yesterday to cut the millage from 6.325 in 2018-2019, to 6.043 in 2019-2020. In…

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Posted in Health News Politics

Opioid Crisis: Who sold most opioids in our area?

The Drug Enforcement Administration has a database that tracks every single pain pill sold in the United States — by manufacturers and distributors to pharmacies…

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Posted in News Pensacola Politics

Timeline: Satterwhite’s contribution

Inweekly has been blessed with many gifted writers. Christopher Scott Satterwhite has provided a scholarly approach to his work. It comes naturally to Satterwhite, since…

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Posted in Education Escambia County Politics

Newpoint scandal: District ‘asleep’ while millions stolen

Last year, Marcus May, the founder of Newpoint Education Partners, was convicted of stealing over $5.2 million through a complicated scheme involving Newpoint-managed charter schools…

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Posted in Pensacola Politics

Mayor calls for internal investigation of Crawford shooting

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Alluding to conversations with citizens in the wake of a fatal police shooting, Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday that is committed…

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Posted in Pensacola

Pensacola Borrows $17 million for SCAPE Projects

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola plans to borrow $17 million to be used for unspecified — though, heavily suggested — projects within…

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Posted in Crime

Wild West Escambia – three shootings over two days

WEAR TV 3 is excited. The Sinclair station was able to expand its “If it bleeds, it leads” coverage because of three shootings over the…

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Posted in Politics

‘City of Grudges’ finalist for Killer Nashville award

“City of Grudges” is a finalist for the 2019 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award in the Thriller category. Killer Nashville is one of the most…

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Posted in Business Pensacola

Pensacola gets $12 million EDA grant

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding a $12.25 million grant to the city of Pensacola to be used toward furthering…

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Posted in Education

Schools to get more mental health instruction

By Ana Ceballos, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Public schools will be required to teach students at least five hours of mental health…

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Posted in Caring

Zeroes for Zeroes

Today, the Zero for Zeros campaign released a second round of data highlighting the disparity of banks, investment firms and other financial services companies who…

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Posted in Politics

Cervantes safety improvements unveiled

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Laid out along a long table is a bird’s-eye satellite image of West Cervantes Street depicting potential safety improvements planned for…

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