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.
Ambitious 1970s capital program changed the city
- August 24, 2014
- / Carlton Proctor
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In 1978 Steve Garman, then city manager of Westminster, Colo., was approached about taking a similar position in Pensacola.
First, the good news
- August 24, 2014
- / Shannon Nickinson
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Patrick Elebash saw something downtown last Christmas that he had never seen before. Shopping bags. Lots and lots of shopping bags. From lots and lots of stores.
We set standards for third-graders. What about us?
- August 24, 2014
- / Randy Hammer
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Palafox leads downtown’s renaissance
- August 24, 2014
- / Carlton Proctor
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When restaurant entrepreneur Joe Abston opened Hopjacks on Palafox Place in 2008, he said his goal was to help revive downtown Pensacola and restore its “beating heart.”
A special place, and a crucial time
- August 24, 2014
- / Rick Harper
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The Haas Center worked with the PNJ to produce a 64-page report on the region’s economy. Put your hand over the 2000 to 2011 period in Chart A to see how the data looked as we put together the 2001 project.
Our sights are set on industry clusters
- August 24, 2014
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