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On Friday, Sept. 15, Gallery Night’s “Art of Fashion” event is featuring a “Pensacola Project Runway” Design Contest themed “From Sand To Sassy.” Michelle Ortiz shares the details.

We've seen an increase in people sleeping on the sidewalks and doorways on South Palafox Street. Councilwoman Allison Patton gives an update on what is being done to find shelter for these people.

United Way of West Florida will be hosting its 2023 Annual Meeting, this year’s theme is Agents of Change. The meeting is 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, at  University of West Florida Conference Center, 11000 University Parkway | Building 22. Tickets are $25 each or $175 for a table of 8. Learn more at www.uwwf.org/annual-meeting-2023.

86 Forks Bar + Table is celebrating Bay Buns Day (Aug. 21) with a special contest. The winner gets free Bao Buns for an entire year. Aimee Wilson has the details.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Skanska USA’s attempt to limit liability after its barges broke loose and damaged the Pensacola Bay Bridge during Hurricane Sally in 2020. Locals consider the 40-page decision a victory for those who have filed lawsuits in state courts against the construction company. Some of the lawsuits involve property damaged by the barges, but the majority of the cases are businesses, such as Bagelheads, Flowers by Yoko and Dog House Deli, that claim economic damages due to the bridge's closure.Levin Papantonio Rafferty partner Brian Barr has the details.

The full show for Tuesday, August 1, 2023.

Councilwoman Jennifer Brahier said that citizens questioned how the traffic count for Summit Boulevard increased from around 5,000 cars a day in 2019 when the Florida Department of Transportation studied the traffic flow to closer to 12,000 four years later, according to the most recent study. “In my opinion, at the very least, we have to be able to understand why we went from 5,000 to 12,000, if we really did,” said District 1 Councilwoman Jennifer Brahier. “Was it a mistake in data or is there a trend that we need to pay attention to before we go changing roads? Those are the simple questions right there. So I agree that there needs to be more shaken out of this so that we understand what has happened.”

Mayor D.C. Reeves responded to the recent wave of antisemitic vandalism.  He said, "This is not a community in which we're going to tolerate people that that are intentionally trying to hurt and intimidate another group of people."

On Monday, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach) sent out a request for campaign contributions. He wrote, “A Super PAC being run by the Lincoln Project’s Leftovers has even launched a six-figure effort to take my seat!” Ryan Wiggins, the chief of staff for The Lincoln Project, responded. “This is the first I had heard about it. I wrote my team, ‘Hey, are we launching the six-figure campaign to take Matt’s seat? It’s going to take more than six figures, and it'd be nice for y'all to tell the chief of staff these things. It turned out, no, not at all.” Wiggins added, “I'm not trying to take Matt Gaetz’s a seat. I'm trying to make Matt Gaetz irrelevant by taking back the House and taking his president away.”

The full show for Monday, July 31, 2023.