Posted in Education Escambia County

Thomas defends millage cut, ignores capital needs

Superintendent Malcolm Thomas defended his rollback of the millage rate to the Pensacola News Journal saying the revenue cut couldn’t have improved teachers’ salaries. Thomas…

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Posted in News Politics

State Rep deletes Twitter account

State Rep. Mike Hill has deleted his controversial Twitter account, @MikeHillFL. Hill had blocked several journalists, including Andy Marlette and me, from seeing his tweets,…

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Posted in Education Escambia County

Superintendent confirms campus safety problem

Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas told WEAR TV that out of the over 100 applicants only 18 passed the screening process to be…

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Posted in Pensacola Politics

Presser Notes: HR, SCAPE & Stormwater

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly With Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson out of town, City Administrator Chris Holley fielded the weekly press conference Monday morning. The administrator…

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Buzz: District has shortage of campus safety officers

The talk among the sheriff’s deputies is the Escambia County School District may not have enough campus security guards to protect all the district’s public…

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Posted in Crime

WEAR TV 3 reads blog

The local Sinclair station apparently reads Rick’s Blog. Channel 3 announced at its 11 am newscast that the station will be digging deeper into the…

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Posted in Baseball Entertainment

Buzz: GBHS hires former Wahoo

Gulf Breeze High School has hired former Pensacola Blue Wahoo Travis Mattair as its new baseball coach. Mattair, age 30, played in 788 pro baseball…

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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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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

Council hunkers down with the budget

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Pensacola City Council this week is settling in for two days of workshops to review Mayor Grover Robinson’s proposed budget…

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