Readers followed closely the University of West Florida Board of Trustees and the Pensacola Beach Gateway debacle.
UWF
We posted Manny Diaz’s employment contract before any media in the state. Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz will get a $319K pay increase. The UWF interim president’s base salary is $107K more than the current president, Martha Saunders, and only $7,000 less than new FAMU President Marva Johnson’s $650,000. The Education Commissioner’s current salary is $323,989.56.
Read Daily Outtakes: See UWF interim president’s proposed contract.
Other UWF Posts:
UWF Trustees give Saunders full performance bonus
Daily Outtakes: UWF Trustee Tables Hoffman Tenure Despite Faculty Support
Latest in UWF BOT Mysteries
Beach Gateway Comedy
Escambia County Commissioner Ashlee Hofberger canceled a public dressing rooms project at Casino Beach and designed three cartoonish options for a gateway to Pensacola Beach. The art community, beach business owners and public were not pleased. Hofberger ignored the critics and proudly declared Option #2 the winner.
Hofberger gaslights local artists on beach gateway
Overnights for Hofberger’s cartoon options not good
The importance of community engagement
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Pensacola’s fight for a strong mayor
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INWEEKLY
Conjuring Community Through Music and Dance
At the Gallery Night Juneteenth Variety Show: On the third Friday of each month, droves of locals and visitors descend on Palafox Street to celebrate art, music and culture at Gallery…
Winners & Losers 6/12/25
WINNERS: BEN ABO Dr. Abo has joined Escambia County Public Safety as interim medical director, overseeing emergency medical care across EMS, Fire Rescue, Emergency Management and other departments. The EMS physician brings extensive experience…
Outtakes—Keeping Faith
When Baptist Hospital quietly shuttered its E Street campus in September 2023, it left behind more than empty buildings—it walked away from the Black community that had sustained it for generations…
Emily Ley Continues to Fight
Emily Ley fights to save her American dream with the same courage, tenacity and optimism that turned her dream into reality. On April 1, the 42-year-old Pensacola business owner emerged as the face of…
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