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At the end of last week’s five-hour Pensacola City Council meeting, City Administrator Eric Olson gave his monthly verbal report to the council. Olson said…

Yesterday, attorney Raymond Palmer, the legislative affairs chair for the Northwest Florida chapter of NAIOP, came on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks” to talk…

By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Nurseries have filed more than a dozen challenges to the medical-marijuana licenses granted by Florida health officials,…

Over the weekend, NAIOP, the association of developers and commercial real estate brokers, sent a white paper to the Escambia Board of County Commissioners asking…

EscaRosa Coalition on the Homeless is seeking volunteers for the annual Point In Time (PIT) count of the homeless and U-Count Services day. The events…

The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council recently approved the initial Funded Priorities List, or FPL, of projects to be funded pursuant to the RESTORE Act during a…

We have had a few comments and emails about the Future Land Use Plan and Comprehensive Plan so we went into the City of Pensacola’s…

In February, Councilman Brian Spencer tried to add to the agenda for the next council meeting a discussion of the radio tower being built in…

The Northwest Florida Chapter of NAIOP, a commercial real estate development association, sent a strongly worded “white paper” to city and county officials stating the…

Having whittled the list of projects vying for local RESTORE dollars down to a manageable 62, the Escambia County RESTORE Advisory Committee heard from about…

City of Pensacola’s Planning Services Administrator Sherry Morris and Inspection Services Administrator Bill Weeks have declined to meet with Inweekly to discuss the Long Hollow…

City Council considers EDATE, getting matching tattoos by Jeremy Morrison With the progression of a $50 million downtown development potentially on the line, the Pensacola…

By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The state’s business-recruitment agency, which Gov. Rick Scott uses for international trade missions, needs to do a…

The Escambia County Board of Commissioners this morning discussed the rash of deaths in the county jail. Inweekly and this blog were brought up several…

When Manna Food Pantries bought the old Pickens School property on Hayne Street, the Escambia County School District’s realtor, Danny Zimmern, told the non-profit that…

Inweekly has joined #AccessDenied Project, a new initiative of The Society of Professional Journalists and MuckRock launched today to gather journalists’ access issues when working with…

By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The outlook for production of Florida oranges, the state’s signature crop, continues to drop. For the second…

City Administrator Eric Olson said Wednesday night that he felt compelled to comment in regards to a former city employee stating that she was let…

PNJ reporter Will Isern is doing a follow-up story on the Long Hollow Radio Tower. Elizabeth Schrey spoke with Isern about how city staff knew…

Whether it was David Letterman signing off on the Late Show for the final time or Caitlyn Jenner accepting an award recognizing her courage, the most discussed and shared presentations of the year were thought-provoking, emotional…