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A poet’s ancestral flame, a radio dream 26 years in the making and a budget brawl that got personal. See inside Inweekly’s Sept. 17 issue

485 days with no long TSA waits, a leaner budget with the same tax rate, and terminal construction starts next week. Mayor Reeves’ roundup here.

He didn’t sing until senior year of high school. Now Zach Robbins is dropping an Earth Day album about nature, development, and healing.

Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area made history: 1,313 members, 13 grants worth $101K each, and 20 finalists competing for $1.3M on Million Dollar Sunday, Oct. 11.

Poll: Donalds & Jolly tied at 44-43%, but independents break for Jolly by 12 pts in a sample weighted 42% GOP. What that means for November.

UWF’s Lumpy DeWeese stood with Kelvin Sampson & John Calipari in D.C. to push a bill fixing the transfer portal chaos. Here’s what’s in it and what’s next.

Escambia Children’s Trust holds the tax rate flat but nearly stalls its $12.8M budget over a fight for at-risk teens ages 15-18. Full story here.

One Palafox block flooded Saturday—the other four stayed bone dry. Mayor Reeves explains why, and who really owns the pipe that’s failing.

DCF leaves mentally incompetent defendants rotting in jail cells for months past the legal deadline. Three have died. Now they’re being sued.

Who created the monster? Creator, Creature or Society? Choreographer Gonzalo Galguera flips Frankenstein on its head for Ballet Pensacola’s 48th season opener.

Downtown Pensacola’s property values jumped 51%, services expanded over six years—and the man behind it just got four more. Full story here.

1,313 women. $1,313,000 in grants. 20 Pensacola nonprofits are finalists, but only 13 walk away with $101K on Oct. 11. See who made the cut.

Northwest Florida needs 28,000 workers in next five years. Where will they come from? Three companies are cracking the code—and the math is brutal.

One block flooded for 13 minutes. The storm behind it exceeded Hurricane Sally’s intensity. Here’s what the city’s data actually shows.

Visit Pensacola’s next tourism chief comes down to two: a Galveston exec and Chattanooga’s retiring CEO. Meet them Thursday at The Fish House.

200+ artists, $26,000 in prizes, a UK textile artist and free admission — the Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival takes over downtown Pensacola Nov. 6-8.

Retired Navy captain who ran a $180M Naval Academy operation is now CEO of the Pensacola Interstate Fair — with a plan to go year-round.

Sports A week of elite college soccer returns to Pensacola as 12 Southeastern Conference women’s teams compete for the 2026 SEC Championship, Sunday, Nov. 8,…

DHS’s own watchdog confirms it: “Alligator Alcatraz” locked detainees in 18-sq-ft metal boxes and never nailed down what rules applied.

Cruz and Cantwell say college sports is “the Wild West.” Their bipartisan bill could end it, and a UWF Argonaut watched it happen.