Land, water funding differences move to budget chiefs
- June 10, 2015
- / Jim Turner
- / government
Members of the House Agricultural & Natural Resources Appropriations Subcommittee and the Senate General Government Appropriations Subcommittee agreed Tuesday, after four days of talks, that they could not finalize major portions of the environmental spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
AFCEA Pensacola Chapter awards ten college scholarships
- June 10, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / education
New website aimed at drawing tourists north and south in Santa Rosa
- June 10, 2015
- / Louis Cooper
- / government
Santa Rosa County has launched a new tourism website and the Federal Emergency Management Agency could help address flooding in four county neighborhoods.
UWF announces gift honoring local musician Larry Butler
- June 10, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / education
Gifts made by Butler’s family and friends led to the establishment of the Larry Butler Memorial Music Award. This award will be used to support UWF music students in academic competitions or performance-related travel.
Pensacola is 3,000 units short of housing need
- June 10, 2015
- / Carlton Proctor
- / training-development
Housing summit closed in on the underlying problems affecting housing affordability: Low wages and shortage of available units for rent or sale.
Study notes hospitals that charge the uninsured the biggest markup
- June 10, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / education
Fifty hospitals in the United States are charging uninsured consumers more than 10 times the actual cost of patient care, according to research published Monday.
UWF hosts summer basketball camp
- June 10, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / community-dashboard
Boys and girls between ages 6 to 15 are invited to attend University of West Florida's first "Shoot for the Stars' basketball camp at UWF's Field House.
Judge rejects mediation in LIP lawsuit
- June 10, 2015
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / government
Federal judge rejected a request by Gov. Rick Scott for mediation in a legal battle between the state and federal government about health-care funding.
Women's Civic Forum delves into past
- June 10, 2015
- / Staff Reports
- / early-learning
Pensacola native Jennifer E. Mack at the Women’s Civic Forum on June 17 on “Unearthing Lost Cemeteries: Archaeology as an Act of Remembrance.”
Making a house a home
- June 9, 2015
- / Carlton Proctor
- / economy
Housing summit addresses impact affordable housing has on Pensacola's economy, ways public, private sectors can stimulate construction of more housing units.