By JIM TURNER THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The search for Florida State University’s next president has so far attracted six new hopefuls since getting tangled earlier this year over the desire…
Waiting by the phone, record requests languish
Inweekly has three significant public record requests outstanding. We have challenged Escambia County’s position that its consultant’s report on the April 30 jail blast is a work document of attorney Ed Fleming…
How a federal grand jury works
The Handbook for Federal Grand Jurors provides information on how a federal grand jury works. The federal grand jury’s function is to determine whether a person shall be tried for a serious…
350 Pensacola Statement: Support the City’s Climate Change Task Force Resolution
Press Release: In January 2012, 350 Pensacola presented a sustainability proposal, “A Citizens’ Proposal: Global Problem, Local Solutions,†to the Mayor and Pensacola City Council. At that time, we asked the City…
Gay marriage case sent to Florida Supreme Court
By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Florida’s ban on gay marriage is now in the hands of the state’s highest court after an appeals court asked that the justices resolve…
State Capital Buzz: School Vouchers, Veterans dealing with PTSD
LAWSUIT SEEKS TO END SCHOOL VOUCHERS PROGRAM A coalition of groups and individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the constitutionality of a de facto school-vouchers program that serves tens of thousands…
City attorney out of the loop on federal investigation
Councilwoman Sherri Myers requested copies of the federal subpoenas served to “staff persons, employee or elected official.” She sent her request to Interim City Administrator Dick Barker, City Attorney Jim Messer and…
Federal subpoena focuses on Mayor Ashton Hayward, Jerry Pate and city contracts (updated)
This post was updated after receiving additional information from city staff. Per a public request made by Inweekly earlier today, Tamara Fountain, the city of Pensacola’s Chief of Operations, released the federal…
Mayor moves disparity plan to the FastPass lane
Four years ago the Pensacola City Council approved Mayor Ashton Hayward’s recommendation to hire MGT of America to perform a full disparity study to review disparities in the distribution of city expenditures…
No Surprises in Governor’s race
By DARA KAM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Republican incumbent Rick Scott and Democrat Charlie Crist are headed for a November battle of the governors after both easily sailed through Tuesday’s primary…
Seven Lessons from Underhill victory
1. Doug Underhill may have said it best at his campaign celebration last night. “This victory is a message that the people of Escambia County will not tolerate dirty politics.” For weeks,…
Underhill wins
Apparently Lamar Brazwell’s poll was wrong. Doug Underhill is new commissioner for District 2, 2,785 (62.5%) to 1,672 (37.5%). All precincts reported. Note: There will be a general election against the Democratic…
Underhill up with 63-37 percent
Early voting results. Valentino is done.
Pensacola city government under federal investigation
Interim City Administrator Dick Barker notified the city council by email that the Feds are investigating the city and staff members are being questioned. No specifics were given. Maybe we will have…
State Capital Briefs: Primary results within a hour of polls close, victory for net fishermen
MORE THAN 1.1M VOTERS CAST ABSENTEE, EARLY BALLOTS More than 1.1 million votes were cast in Florida before Tuesday’s primary-election day began, with over 850,000 through absentee ballots and almost 300,000 during…
Marcus Pointe Country Club closing, can Pensacola afford to keep Osceola open?
The News Journal is reporting that Marcus Pointe Golf Club that it will close its course at the end of this year. Rodney Sutton at Sperry Van Ness has the listing for…
NorthEscambia: Century and Pensacola lock horns over natural gas
NorthEscambia.com reports the Town of Century has finally received the records it requested from Pensacola Energy to investigate how the city of Pensacola has encroached into the small town’s franchise area. Pensacola…
DJJ cancels service with controversial Santa Rosa provider
By MARGIE MENZEL THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has canceled a contract with a controversial operator of a 40-bed residential facility in Santa Rosa County, with…
Slow voting
Reports from Santa Rosa and Escambia polling places are the voting turnout is very low. At 8:45 am only 68 people had cast their votes at the Gulf Breeze Recreation Center.
There is a written report on jail blast, but we cannot see it
Yesterday afternoon, we were told that attorney Ed Fleming had delivered to County Attorney Alison Rogers a written report on his investigation of the April 30 explosion at the county’s Central Booking…