New Pensacola Little Theatre executive director Sandy Cox joins Rick Outzen to talk about trading a tech career and a Texas mayor's office for the arts, and what it takes to build a great community theater.

My guests are Library Board of Governance Chair Dr. Blaine Wall, Lakeview Center Outpatient Services Director Jeff Fletcher, PLT Executive Director Sandy Cox, New Pensacola Sports President/CEO Jason Libbert and local artist Mathaya Hill.

Guests: Michael Carro discusses the sale of FPL's Pensacola HQ; Escambia County School Superintendent Keith Leonard on how school district earned its A grade; Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender provides tips on early voting; and activist Pepper Wimer discusses the fight against data centers.

I interview retired Assistant State Attorney John Molchan on the Billings case; Carolyn Grawi, executive director of the Center for Independent Living of Northwest Florida, to break down ECAT's chaos, and Dave Glassman on restrooms for the Veterans Memorial Park.

With the Aug. 18 primary closing in, five of the six candidates for Pensacola mayor made time to sit down with Inweekly. A sixth candidate, Ann Hill, declined two invitations, telling us she is “focusing on written interviews and candidate questionnaires”because they better reflect “the style of communication I have valued throughout my career in journalism and public service.”

I interview Pensacola Police Chief Eric Winstrom, Pensacola FC owner Justin Witkin, and UWF student-athlete Lumpy DeWeese.

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Ahead of Cowboy Mouth's August 1 show at Vinyl Music Hall, frontman Fred LeBlanc talks with Rick Outzen and Sena Maddison about 35 years at New Orleans Jazz Fest, staying galvanized in his sixties, and the story behind new song "Me and Jim Beam."

On the anniversary of the Bud and Belly Billings murders in Beulah, police historian Michael Earl Simmons joins Rick's Blog Live to talk about his "Sweet Tea Murders" storytelling series and revisit the home invasion that made national headlines and launched Sheriff David Morgan's career.

Pensacola Council President Allison Patton joins Rick's Blog Live to break down the Palafox Street gamble that paid off, the port's turnaround from "dead weight" to economic driver, airport growth outpacing its own parking, and what a year of "trial by fire" as Council President has taught her.

In the wake of the deadly July 4th downtown shooting, Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May joins Rick's Blog Live to trace his path from a teenage tournament organizer at the Salvation Army to co-founder of Southern Youth Sports Association—and to make the case for a community-wide summit on teens.