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Many days you cannot make this stuff up: Mayor announces blanket drive

Press Release: Office of the Mayor to Sponsor Week Long Blanket Drive Beginning Wednesday, Feb. 12, the Office of the Mayor will be sponsoring a…

Hayward’s no-blanket ordinance backlash: Pensacola called Most Horrible City on the Planet

On Broward/Palm Beach New Times blog, Chris Joseph criticized today Pensacola for its no-blanket ordinance: “A Florida City Made It Illegal For Homeless People to…

Red-light cameras could be repealed

By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida A measure to repeal the state’s red-light traffic camera law will be pushed forward by lawmakers using…

Taylor files to run for City Council District 6 seat

Press Release: Small businessman Mark Taylor filed today to run for the District 6 seat on the Pensacola City Council. Taylor, 33, is the owner…

Breast Cancer Research set for March 7

On Thursday March 7, 2014, a benefit will be held to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at Seville Quarter in Downtown Pensacola from 6…

Ingram files Veterans Employment Bill

State Senator Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) and State Representative Clay Ingram (R-Pensacola) have filed legislation which allows private, non-public employers in Florida to give hiring preference…

Nurse practitioner debate flares in Florida House

A House select committee Monday began working on a 155-page bill that would give new powers to nurse practitioners and has spurred a lobbying battle…

INYR Feb. 11 topics: Pirates & shipwrecks, Coastal cleanup and Lion Fish

We have another strong line-up for today’s show: 11:05 am Dr. Amy Mitchell-Cook, associate professor of the Department of History at UWF. Cookâ€™s specialization in…

City attorney gets ‘independent’ opinion on airport food concessions lease

The Pensacola City Council contemplated last month extending the current least of the city’s airport food concessions vendor, Varona’s, for the time necessary for Mayor…

On Tap in the Capital: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014

Legislature: BILLS COULD LIMIT NURSING HOME LAWSUITS: House and Senate panels are scheduled to take up bills (HB 569 and SB 670) that would place…

Bare gathers necessary signatures to be on the ballot for Pensacola mayor

Pensacola City Councilman Charles Bare has received confirmation from the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections office that he had gathered enough signatures to be placed…

Rev. Monk petition on no-blanket petition goes viral

This is truly amazing. The change.org petition that Rev. Nathan Monk started two weeks is just 33 votes shy of 10,000 signatures. You have to…

Important BP meeting today for people with disabilities and other under-represented persons

The Center for Independent Living Disability Resource Center invites people with disabilities and other under-represented persons or groups to a discussion on how they can…

INYR interview: UWF Head Football Pete Shinnick

I interviewed on Monday the University of West Florida’s first head football coach, Pete Shinnick. We talked about his family’s football legacy, the coaches that…

Open Books hosts Dr. Robin Blyn, Feb. 21

On Friday, February 21, Open Books will host Dr. Robin Blyn to celebrate the release of her new book, “The Freak-Garde: Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary…

UWF screens ‘Black to Our Roots,’ Feb. 26

On Wednesday, February 26 at 6pm, the U.W.F. Department of English and World Languages is hosting a screening of the film Black to Our Roots…

Letter to the Editor: Is Agriculture Sustainable

I received this letter today: We just returned from the National Cattlemenâ€™s Beef Association convention in Tennessee. The buzz word for the convention was sustainability…

Protect Our Defenders responds to AP story that ran in PNJ today

Today the Pensacola News Journal reported on an Associated Press report released yesterday that revealed in shocking detail the military’s flawed and insufficient handling of…