City hall perfect place for DIB
- February 9, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / community-dashboard
With all the good things going on in downtown Pensacola these days, City Hall leasing space to the Downtown Improvement Board would be another positive step in the right direction.
'Be the Bulb' challenge to improve kids' school readiness
- February 8, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / studer-community-institute
The deadline is April 27 to submit ideas for the Be the Bulb challenge, which will award $50,000 for the best ideas to improve early learning in Escambia County.
'Be the Bulb' challenge looking for good ideas
- February 8, 2016
- / Randy Hammer
- / studer-community-institute
The Studer Community Institute’s Pensacola Metro Dashboard shows that 34 percent of children in Escambia County start their first day of kindergarten unprepared.
Finding and defining a quality teacher
- February 8, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
It's hard to define and they are hard to find, but quality teachers determine the quality of education a child receives in school.
How Pensacola's women fare in business ownership
- February 7, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / entrecon
In Pensacola, 46.2 percent of the businesses are co-owned or fully owned by women, and account for some 17,000 jobs in the Escambia-Santa Rosa county area.
Why small town America is poised to become the next Silicon Valley
- February 7, 2016
- / Ron Stallcup
- / economy
Learn how a start-up insider predicts small town America will overtake Silicon Valley in innovation.
Service sector slowdown explained
- February 7, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / economy
As Bloomberg Business reports that the service sector of the national economy is slowing, UWF's Dr. Rick Harper explains what that means for the Pensacola metro area.
'ReadyRosie' a bright spot in early learning
- February 5, 2016
- / Reggie Dogan
- / education
Ready Rosie promotes early learning by providing an online parent engagement tool that models fun and easy literacy and math activities for young children.
SCI's 2016 training calendar
- February 5, 2016
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / training-development
Check out the topics for the Studer Community Institute's 2016 training and development calendar.
Red-light camera ban inches forward
- February 5, 2016
- / Jim Turner
- / community-dashboard
State lawmakers are inching a bill forward that would limit cities use of red-light cameras, measures that have been used in Gulf Breeze and Milton.