The Pensacola City Council passed, 6-1, an ordinance that increased the members’ annual salaries to $21,500. Council President Charles Bare was the lone dissenting vote. Councilman Andy Terhaar was absent. The new…
Art: ‘Vignettes’ exhibit, July 25
A unique photography exhibit will open at the Wright Place in Pensacola, Monday, July 25. Frank Brueske, an award winning fine art photographer from Pace, will showcase his latest one-man exhibit, “Vignettes. 
Walmarts host Cram-A-Thon next week
With the start of the school year just around the corner, the annual Escambia County Cram-A-Thon will take place on Thursday, July 21. The Cram the Van school supply drive, celebrating 17…
Florida’s Great Northwest awarded grant
Florida’s Great Northwest, the 12-county, regional economic development organization of Northwest Florida, is pleased to announce it has been awarded a U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Adjustment Assistance grant, in partnership with…
AFL-CIO endorses Casey
Press release: The Northwest Florida Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is excited to announce the endorsement of Jesse Casey. Mr. Casey is running as a candidate for Escambia County Commissioner District 1. After…
Retail association endorses Broxson
Press release: The Florida Retail Federation (FRF) PAC, the state’s premier trade association representing retailers for over 75 years, today announced its endorsement of Doug Broxson for the Florida Senate. Broxson, a…
Florida infrastructure gets C grade
Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card—assigning letter…
County makes offer for jail site
by Duwayne Escobedo… After more than two years of haggling about where to rebuild a jail destroyed by flooding in April 2014, the five-member Escambia County Commission finally unanimously picked out a…
Barker adds another wrinkle to gas tax agreement
The Pensacola City Council approved the gas tax allocation plan passed by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners with one significant change. The BCC approved using the city’s audited financial reports to…
BCC release on LOGT, Jail
Commission Moves Forward on Gas Tax Sharing, Land Purchase for Jail At a series of meetings today, July 14, the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners moved forward on two major community…
Pensacola Speaks: Cris Dosev, ITen Wired
I will open “Pensacola Speaks” today with Congressional candidate Cris Dosev at 5:10 p.m. Dosev will give us an update on his campaign. In the second hall, Jim Rhodes of Appriver will…
Pothole Politics
By Duwayne Escobedo City and county officials played pothole politics for 2 ½ hours Thursday. In the end, the state funding from the 6-cent Local Option Gas Tax for repaving roads inside…
Women in Technology : ‘Women in Aviation’ on July 20
Innovation Coast’s next Women in Technology event will feature a panel discussion with the theme of women in aviation. The event is scheduled for 4-6 p.m. July 20 in the community room…
Mayor Hayward recommends $10K raise for Pensacola City Council
Former Pensacola City Councilwoman Maren Deweese has been combing through Mayor Ashton Hayward’s proposed FY 2017. She has discovered the mayor has proposed raising the salary of each council member by $10,000…
ITEN Wired: 2016 Geeks on the Beach
The ITEN Wired Summit comes back to the Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front on October 12–14 as a bigger, better, three-day conference. Co-hosted by IT Gulf Coast and FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance,…
Pensacola Chamber releases responses to local candidate questionnaire
Today, the Greater Pensacola Chamber released the answers submitted by candidates running for Pensacola City Council and Escambia County Board of County Commissioners. Candidates were given two weeks to complete the business-focused…
Scott, Bondi to speak GOP National Convention
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi, who lined up months ago behind GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, will be among the speakers during next week’s Republican National Convention in…
Pensacola health system ranks 266 of 306 U.S. communities
This 2016 edition of The Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on Local Health System Performance assesses the state of health care in more than 300 U.S. communities from 2011 through 2014, a period when…
Okaloosa developer finances medical pot nursery
By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Panhandle developer Jay Odom is bankrolling a Northeast Florida operation licensed by health officials to grow, process and distribute non-euphoric marijuana products, a lawyer…
Studer to speak at UWF Center for Entrepreneurship workshop
The Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of West Florida College of Business is hosting a workshop on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 9 a.m. in partnership with the Studer Community Institute and…