Escambia County Council PTA vendor fair builds partnerships
- August 21, 2017
- / Reggie Dogan
- / government
When each person, every organization or agency does its part toward the common purpose of giving each child the best chance to be ready for kindergarten, the quality of life in the community improves for all of us.
Another story in the 2017 FSA scores
- June 9, 2017
- / Shannon Nickinson
- / government
These third-graders were kindergartners in the 2013-2014 school year. That's the last school year that the state released the results of the Florida Kindergarten Readiness Screener (FLKRS).
Jeff Miller part of pack U.S. Senate hopefuls
- July 27, 2015
- / Jim Saunders
- / government
Pollster says front-runner yet to emerge in either U.S. Senate primary race, Jeff Miller, yet to declare his intentions, part of the pack.
What if we spent as much on our schools as we do on incentives?
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
- / government,report-pensacola-metro-2014
Go big or stay home, the saying goes. In that spirit, if public education is, in fact, a problem in Escambia, as so many local leaders seem to believe, then perhaps it’s time to do something about it — and something big at that.
We lag in economic development subsidies
- August 24, 2014
- / William Rabb
- / government,report-pensacola-metro-2014
State and local officials agree that Alabama has had success in attracting big-name manufacturers in part because, unlike Florida, it can pull from an extra source of revenue — the residential income tax.
Ambitious 1970s capital program changed the city
- August 24, 2014
- / Carlton Proctor
- / government,report-pensacola-metro-2014
In 1978 Steve Garman, then city manager of Westminster, Colo., was approached about taking a similar position in Pensacola.