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Top Stories: Week ended May 3, 2025

The two top blog topics concerned the city’s selection process for awarding the demolition contract for the Baptist Hospital “legacy campus” and why we have two Pensacola-Escambia Promotion & Development Commissions. Other well-read posts covered SAVE UWF, new fire stations, IHMC’s National Center for Collaborative Autonomy and Belle Bear being named to the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame.

Baptist Demolition Debate

Daily Outtakes: City rejects low-bidders for Baptist demolition
Breaking: City rejects Baptist demolition contractor
Kohler to City: ‘If you want to take other people’s money, you should at least have them in the room’

Mystery of the Two PEDCs

Clerk uncovers she may have wired PEDC funds to wrong acct
Daily Outtakes: Two PEDCs? Walker Holmes seeks answers
Daily Outtakes: Mystery of Two PEDCs solved

Other Topics

Save UWF: ‘Well Done’
County Commissioners support Hofberger’s fire safety plan
Triumph Gulf Coast approves $6.7 million for IHMC
Belle Bear selected to the Florida Women’s HOF


INWEEKLY

Best of the Coast 2025 Ballot

Just like we have every year for the last 25 years, we’re asking all of you to play favorites and vote in our Best of the Coast poll. That means your most important opinions—like…

Winners & Losers 5/1/25

WINNERS FORK CANCER PENSACOLA The fundraiser raised $150,000 to support the American Cancer Society’s North Florida Road to Recovery program. The funds will provide free transportation to treatment for local cancer patients. Agapi Bistro…

Outtakes—Too Much Veep

When Rep. Alex Andrade described Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration as running “far more akin to ‘Veep’ than ‘House of Cards,’” he didn’t just make a pop culture reference; he delivered a…

Go Public. Go Global.

 A brief conversation between Global Learning Academy Principal Lalla Pierce and a fourth-grade student concludes with Pierce saying, “I love you” to the boy. Global teachers and administrators commonly use…

Meet You in The Middle(Tones)

 Standing somewhere between 5 foot and 3 or 4 inches with a voice that can stop a room, Ethan Middleton has a habit of singing—and speaking—with his chest. The confidence he…


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