Rick's Podcasts

The full show for May 31, 2023.

Founder Stephanie Sheppard shares the many events that Hope Above Fear is involved with in June.

Escambia County Commissioner Steven Barry discusses how quickly high-speed internet is being installed during Phase 1 on the countywide project. 

Open Books & Prison Book Project and Inweekly have launched a Banned Books Giveawaythat will hand out at this year’s PensaPride festival books removed or restricted by the Escambia County School Board. Donate here.

Escambia County Commissioner Robert Bender shares the beach traffic stats for Memorial Day weekend. Saturday set a new record - 24,522 cars. 

If quality of place is critical to Pensacola's future, it's time for the city to secede from the Escambia County School District and create its own school district.

The full show for Tuesday, May 30, 2023.

Pensacola's Cultural Resources Coordinator Adrienne Walker discusses the exploration of the burial grounds discovered at Miraflores Park.

City Councilwoman Allison Patton has been one of the point people for the city’s efforts to deal with homelessness. Inweekly asked her what did you learn from Dr. Joe Savage’s visit to Pensacola. Savage is the regional director for the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.“My biggest takeaway was that we need to collaborate not only as a CoC (Continuum of Care) and as providers but as a local government and as a community,” Patton said.

The Federal Reserve recently released its Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2022, which found that slightly more than one out of four Americans went without some kind of medical care because of the high cost. Community Health Northwest Florida is a significant part of the solution.Community Health CEO Chandra Smiley says, "At Community Health, we're here to take care of anyone who needs healthcare services. We don't want anyone to forego those wellness visits or those primary care visits or getting those prescriptions filled because we know that access to healthcare and staying on top of that will avoid complications down the road."