What if we spent as much on our schools as we do on incentives?
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
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Go big or stay home, the saying goes. In that spirit, if public education is, in fact, a problem in Escambia, as so many local leaders seem to believe, then perhaps it’s time to do something about it — and something big at that.
We lag in economic development subsidies
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
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State and local officials agree that Alabama has had success in attracting big-name manufacturers in part because, unlike Florida, it can pull from an extra source of revenue — the residential income tax.
Mobile has cast its lot with industry; should we?
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
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When officials from the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce visited Pensacola recently, they oohed and ahhed about Pensacola’s thriving downtown business district, as well as the waterfront ballpark and its array of nearby restaurants and nightspots.
Pensacola-area tech sector is on the move
- August 24, 2014
- / Mollye Barrows
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Getting a 350-pound robot to walk like a human is half art, half science. It’s the kind of thing the robotics lab at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition specializes in.
Community-building events help spread success
- August 24, 2014
- / Mollye Barrows
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Robin Reshard wants to hear your story. She calls it being nosy, but it’s a curiosity born from a genuine interest in people and a desire to see them succeed.
Rebuilding our middle class could start here
- August 24, 2014
- / Mollye Barrows
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Tauheedah Rasheed knows the value of hard work. A single mother with two young children and then only a high school education, Rasheed could barely make ends meet working in customer service.
The work we still need to do
- August 24, 2014
- / Shannon Nickinson
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If you live and work in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, on average you make $8,000 less than the typical American worker. But if you lived and worked in the Pensacola metro in 1970, you made $2,200 more than the typical Florida worker
Be honest about where we are
- August 24, 2014
- / Shannon Nickinson
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Pensacola is a big enough small city that you sometimes get the feeling folks are only separated by six degrees.
