Children's Home Society earns grant for Weis project


  • February 9, 2016
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
The community school project at C.A. Weis Elementary school has earned another grant toward its mission of boosting student outcomes by improving the safety net under students and the community.

Telehealth, transparency move forward in House


  • February 9, 2016
  • /   News Service of Florida
  • /   community-dashboard
Bills aimed at increasing the use of

Senate approaches tax cuts one piece at a time


  • February 9, 2016
  • /   Jim Turner
  • /   economy
Credits for renewable energy production, lowering tax on aviation fuel among proposals in the Florida Senate's tax cut proposal.

SCI TV Show: Setting goals and investing in a community


  • February 9, 2016
  • /   Reggie Dogan
  • /   video,studer-community-institute
The Studer Community Institute TV Show continues its efforts to help people understand their community by providing information and news they can use.

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.