Posted in Caring

Go4theGoal partners with Nemours to support local kids battling cancer

Press release: Go4theGoal Pediatric Cancer Foundation is thrilled to partner with Nemours’ Children’s Clinic, Pensacola this September during Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month to raise awareness…

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Posted in Politics

Scott nemesis pops up in pot snafu

BY DARA KAM AND BRANDON LARRABEE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Steve Andrews, a perennial thorn-in-the-side of Gov. Rick Scott and his administration, popped up…

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Posted in Escambia County Pensacola

Gas tax revenue allocation goes back to staff

Wisdom prevailed at the Escambia County Board of County Commissioners meeting last night. Rather than negotiate the percentages of how the Local Option Gas Tax…

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Posted in Escambia County

Gas tax allocation may be tabled

After watching today’s discussion of what is a fair allocation of the local option gas tax revenues for the next 10 years, the commmissioners had…

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Posted in News

2015 Pensacola Mayor’s Cup Golf Classic, Oct. 9

Press release: Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward will host the 2015 Pensacola Mayor’s Cup Golf Classic on October 9 at Osceola Municipal Golf Course. All proceeds…

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Posted in Education

State board approves Bense as UWF president thru Dec. 2016

Judith Bense, president of the University of West Florida since 2007, received approval Thursday to remain in the post as the Pensacola school plans to…

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Posted in 2016 Election

Lopez-Cantera challenges Murphy to debate on Iran deal (podcast)

Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera called on Representative Patrick Murphy to join him at a joint town hall with Florida voters so Murphy could explain his…

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Posted in Business

Gulf Power bills could drop $3.71 per mo.

By JIM SAUNDERS THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA Millions of Floridians could find it a little cheaper to run the air conditioning in 2016. The…

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Posted in Politics

City of Gulf Breeze funds street paving using other sources, not just gas taxes

Gulf Breeze City Manager Buz Eddy told Inweekly that the city of Gulf Breeze spends about $450,000 on paving and sidewalks. Half of the expenditures…

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Posted in Pensacola

Big drop in city transportation expenditures over the past five years

Included with Olson’s letter is a spreadsheet that shows how the old allocation formula was calculated in 2006. The city expenditures were much higher from…

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Posted in Escambia County Pensacola

Mayor Hayward and Olson fight to keep old tax allocation

Yesterday afternoon, Pensacola City Administrator Eric Olson sent Escambia County Administrator Jack Brown a letter requesting the county continue the current Local Option Gas Tax…

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Posted in Escambia County Pensacola

How Escambia County calculated gas tax allocation

Amy Lovoy, Assistant County Administrator, calculated the new allocation formula for Local Option Gas Tax revenue. Here are the notes she provided with her spreadsheet:…

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