STATE CAPITAL BRIEFS (EVENING EDITION): TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015 THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA MARIJUANA AMENDMENT REACHES 400K SIGNATURES Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize medical marijuana have submitted 400,000…
Health advisory for Bayou Texar
Press release: Health Advisory for Bayou Texar at Bayview Park Tuesday, December 15, 2015 – 3:30pm Effective immediately, in response to bacteriological sampling, the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County, or…
PSC hosts Fill a Bowl for Manna Jan. 16
Press release: Warm up your January with a bowl of steaming soup at the ninth annual Fill a Bowl for Manna event from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Jean and…
Town Hall meeting on Bayou Chico dredging
Emeraldcoastkeeper Laurie Murphy is hosting a meeting to discuss the proposed dredging of Bayou Chico. “As you know, there is currently a very controversial and heavily debated dredging issue on Bayou Chico,”…
Olson: Deepflex concerns, FEMA appeal, City Hall security tightens
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 that he is concerned over the lack…
Palmer explains NAIOP position and responds to Underhill
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 about his group’s recommendation that the Escambia…
Pot licenses face several challenges
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, with some asking that the licensing process…
Commissioner responds to NAIOP
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 that the board reconsider its decision to…
Volunteers needed for U-Count 2016 Homeless Service Day
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 will be held on January 27 and…
Three local projects get RESTORE funding
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 meeting at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum &…
Clarity on Future Land Use Plan
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 archives and found these documents. The Future…
Pensacola City Council missed opportunity to stop radio tower completion
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 Long Hollow Conservation District and the…
NAIOP argues for Superfund site for new jail
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 Escambia County Commission would “squander tens of…
RESTORE pitches begin
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 half the hopeful applicants during its Dec….
#AccessDenied: Morris, Weeks and other city staff decline to discuss Long Hollow and Manna issues
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 Radio Tower, according to City PIO Vernon…
Another long night for city council
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 City Council decided Wednesday to grant a…
Enterprise Florida’s overseas sales figures questioned
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 better job of separating anticipated overseas sales…
Commissioners tackle jail medical
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 times in the discussion. County Administrator Jack…
Manna Food Pantries only did what city officials told them
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 the land was zoned commercial. Inweekly has…
Inweekly joins #AccessDenied Project
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 Public Information Officers. In recent years journalists…