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Scott PowersDecember 12, 2017

Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward was the star of a television commercial that began in Tallahassee last week in which he extolled the virtues of vacation rental homes in Pensacola and Airbnb for marketing them – but opponents of that company’s legislative agenda are striking back this week, with a new video starring Hayward. Hayward didn’t […]

Scott PowersDecember 1, 2017

President Donald Trump plans to hold a re-election campaign rally in Pensacola next Friday, his fourth visit to the city since he first began campaigning for president in 2015. The Donald J. Trump for President campaign announced he will be appearing at a 7 p.m. Dec. 8 rally at the Pensacola Bay Center. “We are […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 28, 2017

Storms are a fact of life for the 20-plus million that call ourselves Floridians. Mother Nature reminded us of this when Hurricane Irma made her one-two punch – the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in 2005. Before and after Irma’s impact, Floridians responded. With Gov. Rick Scott’s leadership, Florida safely […]

Staff ReportsJune 12, 2017

Clearwater-based Trulieve is opening its seventh medical cannabis dispensary starting Tuesday with a new location at The Villages. The Villages Trulieve will be at 13940 US Highway 441, #601 in the Oakland Hills Professional Center. “We’re excited to have a location in The Villages. Many of our patients are seniors, which makes this location key,” […]

Guest AuthorJune 5, 2017

The Florida House of Representatives has recently espoused a philosophy of not “picking winners and losers,” but House Bill 1A does just that. As I watched Gov. Rick Scott, Senate President Joe Negron, and Speaker Richard Corcoran announce their plans for a special session to discuss tourism funding, I felt hopeful for the fate of […]

Scott PowersOctober 19, 2016

Former President Bill Clinton will address the Florida Education Association’s conference in Orlando Friday and then go on a bus tour to rallies in Jacksonville, Panama City and Pensacola, the Hillary For America campaign announced Wednesday. Clinton’s two-day, four-city swing on behalf of his wife Hillary Clinton‘s Democratic presidential bid begins Monday morning with an address […]

Scott PowersOctober 18, 2016

Former President Bill Clinton will run a bus tour from Orlando to Pensacola on Friday and Saturday. The tour, promoting his wife Hillary Clinton‘s Democratic run for president, will have RSVP-only public events in Jacksonville on Friday and in Bay County and Pensacola on Saturday. Exact times and locations have not yet been announced. Though the bus tour begins […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 29, 2016

Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for vice president, will be in Florida Thursday and Friday, according to the Hillary Clinton campaign. Kaine will swing through Pensacola, Panama City, and Jacksonville — the first high-profile action for the Clinton/Kaine ticket in Jacksonville since Bill Clinton came through in July. Sen. Kaine has been deployed to Florida often in recent weeks, […]

Jim RosicaAugust 22, 2016

An appeals court has decided not to revive a lawsuit filed after a man was hurt by a collapsing movie theater seat in Pensacola. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal Monday unanimously agreed a lower court was right to grant summary judgment against Isaac Simmons. Summary judgments allow parties to win a case without a trial. Simmons had filed […]

Peter SchorschJuly 14, 2016

National Ice Cream Day is Sunday, but ride-hailing service Uber announced it would celebrate the holiday a couple of days early in Florida with #UberIceCream. The company said between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, users can open their app, set their location and request “ICE CREAM” at the bottom. A few minutes later, users […]

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Opponents strike back on Ashton Hayward’s Airbnb commercial

Donald Trump to hold campaign rally in Pensacola

Syd Kitson: Proud to be a Floridian

Trulieve opens The Villages dispensary

Steve Hayes: Tourism industry in jeopardy with House Bill 1A

Bill Clinton to address Florida educators, three rallies in Florida

Bill Clinton to run bus tour in Florida later this week

Dem VP nominee Tim Kaine to visit the Panhandle, Jacksonville this week

Florida man loses again in court over broken movie seat

Uber offering free frozen treats for #UberIceCream Friday