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The Great Soccer Debate

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Valentine’s Day public gallery was awash with waves of red and green for the Pensacola City Council meeting, with opponents…

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Scenic Heights fought soccer fields in 2005–and won

Sharon Dickinson has lived on Hibiscus Road in the Scenic Heights for 35 years. She remembers how the neighborhood successfully fought soccer fields being built…

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Ever-evolving job titles of William ‘Rusty’ Wells

Rusty Wells has had four different jobs with the city of Pensacola over the past year. On Jan. 4 2015, Wells, who served as city…

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DeSantis wants grand jury probe of school safety

By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Florida’s deadliest school shooting, Gov. Ron DeSantis…

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FDOT puts up $20 million for Project Titan

Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson received the news from the Florida Department of Transportation that the city would receive an additional $20 million for Project Titan….

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Hayward beefed up Bowling’s severance package in August

According to records released yesterday by the City of Pensacola, former Mayor Ashton Hayward modified City Attorney Lysia Bowling’s employment agreement just three months before…

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Smokable, legal pot on the way

By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida –Patients could soon be allowed to smoke medical marijuana, but they’d have to purchase pre-rolled joints with…

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Ford Named to National AI Commission

By Duwayne Escobedo, Inweekly –Dr. Ken Ford and 14 others were named to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and have two years to…

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Bowling paid $91K to trade jobs

The buyouts of the holdovers from the Hayward administration has begun. Former City Attorney Lysia Bowling, who has worked for the city since April 2015,…

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Presser Notes: ST, soccer and safer streets

by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –After patching together must-have funding commitments for Project Triumph last week, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said the city’s hopes for the…

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Chamber has a job opening

The Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce is seeking a new President (Executive Director).  The position was vacated when Clay Ingram accepted the Governor’s request that…

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Poll: Pensacola wants to know facts about investigation of fire chiefs

A InWeekly/Political Matrix poll of 444 likely Pensacola City voters conducted over the weekend found residents overwhelmingly want Mayor Grover Robinson to investigate why former…

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