Are we there yet? A dashboard can help show the way
- July 31, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
To make the dashboard more helpful, relevant and user-friendly, the Studer Community Institute is in the process of updating and improving our dashboard.
Clarity needed for Maritime Park leasing
- July 31, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
City officials say a template lease, clear process is needed for Maritime Park property. Such clarity could help avoid issues that doomed Studer leases.
Farmers markets seeing bigger share of SNAP dollars
- July 30, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / community-dashboard
Palafox Market in downtown Pensacola among those seeing benefits of national trend in increasing use of SNAP at farmers markets.
Big Brothers finds 135 men to answer mentoring call
- July 30, 2015
- / staff reports
- / community-dashboard
From April 17 through July 26, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida recruited 135 male mentors to volunteer in the lives of local boys.
Escambia 4-H Center earns green rating
- July 30, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
The new Escambia County 4-H Center, located at 3730 Stefani Road in Cantonment, received a Three Green Globes certificate in green building in early July.
Community schools empower people
- July 29, 2015
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
In June the team that will work on building C.A. Weis Elementary into a Community School visited New York City’s P.S. 5 Ellen Lurie Elementary and Salone Urena de Herniquez Middle schools, models for the program.
Special meeting set to finalize changes to landfill rules
- July 29, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / community-dashboard
Escambia County Commissioners will have a special meeting at 9:01 a.m. on Aug. 13 to consider adopting changes to the ordinances governing construction and demolition debris and land clearing debris pits.
On how a bronze is really a gold
- July 29, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
Rick Harper says regional economic differences do impact PSC's showing on new state performance metrics, which is how a bronze tier college in Florida would be a gold tier college nationally.
Could I-10 industrial park be key to economic growth in Santa Rosa County?
- July 29, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / economy
With Santa Rosa’s primary industrial park nearing capacity, County Commissioner Rob Williamson thinks the county needs to make new space for potential companies.