By Sammi Sontag Inweekly At a Tanyard neighborhood meeting held at the Corinne Jones Resource Center Thursday evening, Pensacola City Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn listened to her constituents as they spoke about her…
Escambia lawmakers given low C’s and a high D in Sunshine Scorecard report
The Florida First Amendment Foundation graded Florida lawmakers on their support for open government. Escambia County’s three didn’t fare so well. State Sen. Doug Broxson and Rep. Clay Ingram were given C-‘s….
City flooding issues expand as rain falls
From the Bay Cliff Neighborhood Facebook page. The photo above and this comment was posted yesterday afternoon: “What’s going on here at Shannon and Monteigne? Smells like sewage. I am on my…
City of Pensacola to beef up traffic enforcement
By Sammi Sontag INWEEKly The Pensacola Police Department and Florida Highway Patrol are joining forces to crack down on reckless drivers and traffic crashes within city limits. For the month of July,…
New state laws hit the books on July 1
By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Rideshare services, such as Lyft and Uber, will have to comply with statewide rules, and students and teachers will be allowed to express their…
Bubba’s Sweet Spot one-year anniversary on Saturday, July 1
Bubba’s Sweet Spot, which opened July 1st of last year, is set to celebrate its one year anniversary this Saturday. To commemorate the occasion, Bubba’s Sweet Spot will be holding a party…
UWF economist: Corcoran has Florida bringing a knife to the gunfight for economic development
Dr. Rick Harper believes that Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran’s efforts to dismantle Gov. Rick Scott’s business incentives programs invited those involved in economic development to “bring a knife to a gunfight.”…
Newpoint founder arrested
Newpoint Education Partners founder and owner Marcus May was arrested yesterday in Escambia County. May has been charged with swindling more than $1 million from Escambia and other school districts across the…
Chris Hart joins Florida TaxWatch
Chris Hart, who abruptly left Gov. Rick Scott’s embattled economic-development agency earlier this year, landed Wednesday at a Tallahassee-based think tank best known for its annual list of state budget “turkeys.” Florida…
Studer and Saunders on Pensacola Speaks today
Quint Studer and UWF president, Dr. Martha Saunders, will be guests on News Talk 1370’s “Pensacola Speaks” today.
Escambia County has some of the worst performing schools in Florida
The state of Florida has 1,823 elementary schools. Escambia County has eight in the bottom 100 (see table below). Florida has 558 middle schools. Escambia has four middle schools in the bottom…
Fees Simple bill passed U.S. House committee
On Tuesday, June 27, the House Committee on Natural Resources favorably reported H.R. 2370, the Escambia County Land Conveyance Act. The bill, authored by Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL-01), would give leaseholders in…
Santa Rosa School District earns A, Escambia remains a C
Santa Rosa County School District earned an “A” for the 2016-17 school year, according to reports released today by the Florida Department of Education. The County was ranked eighth in the state…
Walton County to launch the Underwater Museum of Art
The Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County (CAA) in partnership with the South Walton Artificial Reef Association (SWARA) and support from the National Endowment for the Arts will join two of South…
DIB seeks input on downtown parking
By Sammi Sontag INWEEKLY With downtown Pensacola growing rapidly there has been a burning need to increase parking and the Downtown Improvement Board and Structured Parking Solutions held a public forum to…
Heroes Among Us: Sgt. Major Ralph Hyatt [podcast]
Sgt. Major Ralph Hyatt USMC, a Bronze Star recipient, is the guest of honor for the Cpl. J.R. Spears Detachment of the Marine Corps League’s 5th Annual Heroes Among Us speaker series…
UWF lecture series with Quint Studer open to the public
Entrepreneur Quint Studer is sharing his expertise in Management 4990/5990: Innovation Within the Organization, a summer undergraduate and graduate course at the University of West Florida. The University is opening up the Studer lecture…
City voters want Mayor Hayward to appeal Bayview Cross ruling
The majority of Pensacola voters would like Mayor Ashton Hayward to appeal Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling that the Bayview Cross was unconstitutional and needed to be removed from city property. On June…
Cannada-Wynn hosts town hall in Tanyard neighborhood
Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward may not like facing this constituents in a town hall format, but Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn is willing to pick up the slack. She has sent out notices for…
Gaetz co-hosts Florida Defense Day
Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL-01) and Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (D-FL-07) will host Florida Defense Day on today at the Florida House on Capitol Hill beginning at 12 p.m. ET/11 a.m. CT. Florida Defense…