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Governor DeSantis Activates Emergency Business Damage Assessment Survey for Coronavirus (COVID-19) ~ The Business Damage Assessment Survey can be taken online at https://floridadisaster.biz/ ~ Tallahassee,…

The state of Florida has the same number of pending Coronavirus tests as it reported yesterday – only 147. The number of samples sent to the…

MercyMe Due to a recommendation from the Governor of the State of Florida to cancel gatherings larger than 1000 people, MercyMe will postpone their Pensacola…

Dr. John Lanza, director of the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County, gave a COVID-19 update to the Escambia County Commission this morning. However,…

State Prison Visitations Suspended The News Service of Florida reports: The Florida Department of Corrections has suspended visits at all state prisons, as the state…

Brian Regan Show Postponed Due to Mr. Regan’s travel concerns, the Brian Regan show scheduled for Thursday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. has been postponed….

Press Release: IMPACT 100 Pensacola Bay Area, a local women’s philanthropic organization, is pleased to announce its 2020 Membership Drive has successfully concluded with a…

Overnight developments: The NBA suspended its season “until further notice” after the Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert tested positive. (ESPN) Tom Hanks wrote on Instagram that he…

Press Release: Immediately following the Committee of the Whole meeting on Thursday, March 12, the following county staff will be available to respond to questions…

On Monday, Cumulus rebranded its local country station, WXBM, dropping “NASH 103.7 FM.” The station is now – “102.7 WXBM Your Country Station.” On Facebook,…

As we reported this morning: Press release: The Florida State University System has mandated all universities transition to remote instruction, effective immediately. Face-to-face instruction is currently…

Per a request from Commissioner Lumon May, Escambia County is taking additional preventative action to ensure  community centers, libraries and other public buildings are sanitized….

As we reported yesterday: Press Release: Visit Pensacola announced today that Darien Schaefer will be its next President/CEO. Schaefer and the organization reached an agreement…

Since last week, I’ve focused on the poor communication from the county on the coronavirus. Other counties have been proactive, while Escambia has been barely…

This morning the Florida Department of Health hosted its first weekly conference call with its private sector and tourism partners (Emergency Support Function #18) to…

Inweekly contacted University of West Florida president, Dr. Martha Saunders, about whether the university had any plans to close the campus due to the potential…

Yesterday afternoon, Escambia County Emergency Management and the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County held a joint meeting for “community partners” at the Escambia County…

The deaths of residents of Lee and Santa Rosa counties due to the coronavirus last Friday were the first two outside of the state of…

Congressman Matt Gaetz tweeted an hour ago that his COVID-19 test results came back negative, but he will remain in self-quarantine through Thursday afternoon at the…

Today, the daily newspaper reports the Florida Department of Health (DOH) has completed its investigation of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and filed on Feb. 28…