Visit Pensacola Calls for Festival and Event Promotional Support

Press Release: Visit Pensacola, the tourism arm of the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce announced today the availability of an application for Festival and Event…

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Gaetz maintains GOP majority in Florida Senate

Press Release: Strong Republican Majority Elected to the Florida Senate …GOP Holds 26 of 40 State Senate Seats in First Election with Fair Districts Standards……

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Waiting It Out on the Dividing Line

With Florida split down the middle in the presidential race, Republicans and Democrats in Pensacola gathered at their respective Election Day bashes. Both camps were…

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DIB on MURAC Report

The Downtown Improvement Board is embarking on a search for a new permanent executive director. When the board began discussing the recently released report from…

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State Education Board votes to keep A.A. Dixon open

At today’s State Board of Education meeting in Boca Raton, the board unanimously voted to grant the appeal of termination by A. A. Dixon Charter…

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UWF Downtown Lecture looks at security and transparency in digital age

By Shelby Smithey… Jocelyn Evans, chair of the University of West Florida Department of Government, will discuss how technological advances and terrorist attacks have affected…

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There is still a lot of voting to be done today

In 2008, 154,864 votes were cast in Escambia County in the presidential race. John McCain got 59 percent of them; Obama 40 percent. During the…

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The facts about 2007 ouster of George Touart

History tends to be rewritten by politicians to fit their current agendas. What really happened in August and September of 2007 when George Touart stepped…

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Bense: Altier has “other opportunities”

University of West Florida President Judy Bense said this afternoon that the departure of Matt Altier, vice president of administrative services, “wasn’t unexpected.” She said…

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Touart’s Return

George Touart is returning to county government. In a move Escambia County Vice Chairman Gene Valentino described as a way to keep the county “moving…

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Lunch at Waterfront Rescue Mission

Waterfront Rescue Mission has had a pretty eventful year. Opening a brand new, beautiful facility and then, when the flood came through leaving the building…

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On the County’s Plate

During its morning work session, the Escambia County Commission’s discussion ranged from boxing regulations to development regulations, from library funding to preparing to battle it…

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