Andrade, Moore address bridge ‘rumors’
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Bathing in light of the first full moon of the year ‘ a Wolf Moon – Pensacola’s Bayview Community Center experienced…
Job creation dollars available
The University of West Florida is accepting applications for the Industry Resilience and Diversification Fund, a regional economic development program with the goal to distribute…
Statewide Preregistration System for COVID-19 vaccine appointments launched
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, the state announced the launch of a statewide preregistration system to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments for individuals 65 and older and…
CO:LAB updates website for 2021
Press Release:When the Gulf Coast Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship first opened its doors to startup businesses in 2008, the Quality of Life Survey funded…
Desantis rolls out $96.6 billion budget plan
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday proposed a record $96.6 billion state budget for the upcoming…
Developer offers $16M to implement Village or Market plans for OLF-8
Hemmer Consulting LLC and 68 Ventures LLC made an offer to buy 400 acres of OLF-8 for $16 million, leaving only 80 acres for commerce…
DPZ Codesign updates ‘facts”
Yesterday, the planning firm hired by the Escambia County Commission to develop a master plan for 540 acres off the Interstate 10 and next to…
Oops, one more Triumph fact overlooked by DPZ Codesign
The firm hired by the county commission to develop a master plan for OLF-8 has tried to downplay the importance of Triumph funds to its…
Presser Notes: ‘Comrade Grover’ talks pylons & public engagement
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Before digging into questions from the press Monday, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson shared an old photo he ran across while cleaning…
Busting DPZ Codesign myths
Yesterday, DPZ Codesign published its set of “facts” about its work for the Escambia County Commission on a master plan for OLF-8, a 500+ acre…
Is Gilley a ‘professional confidential informant’? UPDATE
FDLE spokesperson Gretl Plessinger  answered the question : ‘“Professional Confidential Informant’ is not a formal term. The informant was Keith Morris, the Escambia County Compliance…
Vaccines cut again for Escambia
FDOH-Escambia received an allocation of 2,500 doses of the COVID-19 Moderna vaccine for this week – down for 2800 last week. In partnership with Ascension…
Missing DPZ Codesign facts
DPZ Codesign, the firm hired by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners, has published its facts about the OLF-8 site for which is designing a…
County contractor lobbies for its proposed plan
In an unusual move, the master planning firm hired by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners has begun to lobby residents for its plans for…
Escambia’s racial gap in vaccinations
According to the latest report from the Florida Department of Health, Escambia County has 22,326 Florida residents – 20,687 first doses, 1,639 completed the series…
NYT Covid Case Tracker: Escambia cases ‘extremely high’
NYT: “Cases are extremely high and have stayed about the same over the past two weeks. The numbers of hospitalized Covid patients and deaths in…
FDLE releases report on eavesdropping of county offices
Inweekly received the investigative report on the  bugging of a conference room adjacent to Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley’s office in the Ernie Lee Magaha…
Pensacola MSA: Where COVID-19 growing fastest in Florida
The website 247wallst.com has named Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent the city were the COVID-19 virus is growing the fastest in Florida. “In the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent metropolitan area,…
Vaccination by the numbers
As of Wednesday, Jan. 20, 18,859 residents of Escambia County had been vaccinated, per the county’s dashboard. State researchers estimate the county’s population is 323,714 –…
