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Gaetz Staffer Wrote Bill With Help From Conspiracy Forum
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn aide to Northwest Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz wrote a bill with help from a conspiracy theory subreddit devoted to white nationalism and President Donald Trump. Devin Murphy, a Republican staffer for Gaetz, actively solicited input and advice from r/The_Donald, a Reddit forum known for harboring discussions and sentiment of overt racism, white supremacism, Islamophobia, […]
Search Continues for Pensacola’s Lost Colonial-Era Settlement
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile stories fill history books about immigrants who came to Colonial America and thrived, not as much is known about those who didn’t succeed. Through exhaustive research, Jen Knutson, a graduate research assistant with the University of West Florida’s Division of Anthropology and Archaeology, is telling the story of one of those ill-fated groups – […]
Pensacola wind energy supplier opens new plant, adds more than 200 jobs
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Pensacola renewable energy supplier is expanding its operations and is on track to bring hundreds of manufacturing jobs to the Gulf Coast. Denmark-based Jupiter Group, a supplier to General Electric’s wind energy manufacturing plant in Pensacola, celebrated the announcement with its expansion into a new multi-million dollar, 25,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the Ellison Industrial […]
UWF Faculty Senate Opposes Don Gaetz for University President
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Faculty Senate at the University of West Florida (UWF) has formally opposed the selection of Florida State Senator Don Gaetz as the university’s next president. In a vote held Friday, the Senate voted 12–5 against his candidacy, with two members abstaining. Gaetz, a former healthcare executive and current state senator, holds degrees in religion, […]
Downtown Pensacola Apartment Project Slated to Break Ground
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter several months of unanticipated delays, the highly anticipated mixed-use apartment development led by Quint Studer is officially moving forward. The $52 million downtown Pensacola project is now on track to break ground this spring. Quint and Rishy Studer finalized the financing for the project this afternoon in downtown Pensacola. The development — located in […]
America’s First European Settlement Unearthed in Pensacola
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor centuries, historians have searched for the exact location of Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 1559 settlement in Pensacola — the first multi-year European settlement in what is now the United States. Today, that mystery has been solved. Archaeologists from the University of West Florida (UWF) announced the groundbreaking discovery of the long-lost de Luna […]
Poll Finds Evers Leads Congressional Race
Reading Time: 2 minutesState Sen. Greg Evers (R-Baker) is currently leading the race to succeed Rep. Jeff Miller as Northwest Florida’s congressional representative, according to a poll released by a group named “Citizens for a Just Government.” The group, registered as a nonprofit in February, describes itself as a “grassroots advocacy organization” responding to what it calls “increasingly […]
Quint Studer Resigns from Studer Group, $50M Downtown Project Suspended
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust hours after resigning from the healthcare consulting firm he founded, Pensacola developer Quint Studer informed a group of realtors that his proposed $50 million mixed-use development in downtown Pensacola would not move forward. Studer, 64, is well known not only as the founder of Studer Group, but also as the owner — along with […]
Transcript of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Confederate Monuments
Reading Time: 3 minutesContext: Just hours before the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed — the fourth such monument dismantled in New Orleans — Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered a historic speech at Gallier Hall. What follows is the full transcript of his powerful and emotional remarks, reflecting on history, justice, and unity. Thank you for […]
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