Getting back into the fold


  • November 30, 2015
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   community-dashboard
As federal prison sentencing reform returns people to community in Pensacola and elsewhere, REAP and others look to help the transition in job, life skills.

Improving graduation rates is a boost for the economy


  • November 30, 2015
  • /   Reggie Dogan
  • /   education
Improving graduation rates will take serious investments from the entire community, as well as structural changes in the education system.

Poverty pockets hold back Escambia


  • November 29, 2015
  • /   Shannon Nickinson
  • /   education
Research by the Studer Community Institute and UWF has found that the poverty rate for households with children is 10 percent or higher in a third of the Census tracts in Escambia County.

Commuters show the ties that bind Escambia, Santa Rosa counties.


  • November 29, 2015
  • /   Rick Harper
  • /   community-dashboard
UWF's Rick Harper notes Escambia, Santa Rosa are part of an integrated whole. The best economic progress we could make would be to all rise together.

Research maps prevalence of poverty


  • November 29, 2015
  • /   Randy Hammer
  • /   studer-community-institute
More than 8,000 children in Escambia County live in Census tracts where more than 10 percent of the households live on an annual income of $23,000 or less.

Embrace entrepreneurs on Small Business Saturday


  • November 27, 2015
  • /   Carlton Proctor
  • /   community-dashboard
It's Small Business Saturday, and downtown merchants are seeing more and more customers avoiding the crowds, and enjoying a much more leisurely shopping experience.

Education Pensacola's great challenge


  • November 26, 2015
  • /   Carlton Proctor
  • /   education
Watch Studer Community Institute's discussion about the impact education has on Pensacola's economic prospects on BlabTV at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 27.

VIDEO TIPS: Harlem Brewing Co.'s Celeste Beatty on her early work experience


  • November 26, 2015
  • /   Ron Stallcup
  • /   video
Find out about Harlem Brewing Co.'s Celeste Beatty and her early work experience.

18 things you need to stop doing if you want to be successful


  • November 26, 2015
  • /   Ron Stallcup
  • /   training-development
It is human nature to feel fear, and most of us tend to fear what we don't understand.

Backroom Briefing: The ever growing state budget


  • November 25, 2015
  • /   Brandon Larrabee
  • /   economy
News and notes from Tallahassee as Gov. Rick Scott rolls out his 2016 state budget.