Things change. And sometimes they don’t. For the last 60 years the patrons of the Capitol Plaza shopping center have seen businesses come and go. However, Suburban Salon has remained. The Capitol Plaza, currently home to a number of thriving businesses, was developed by Louis Gibbs and home to Setzer’s Supermarket and W. T. Grant […]
TALLAHASSEE — The tourism industry pushed Wednesday to keep the doors open at the state’s tourism-marketing agency as House and Senate budget committees advanced competing spending plans for next year. The House wants to fund Visit Florida only through Oct. 1, when the agency will be eliminated unless it is reauthorized by the Legislature. That […]
Based on data requested by Tallahassee Reports, Godby High School has the highest number of home school students in Leon County with 231. Godby is followed by Leon High School with 220 and Rickards High School with 196. These numbers are based on students that enrolled in the public school system and at a later […]
After surviving Vermont’s three point barrage and pummeling Murray State, the Seminoles are onto the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row. And for back-to-back seasons, they will be playing the Gonzaga Bulldogs in Southern California, this time in Anaheim. Hopefully for Florida State’s sake it will be the same outcome as last […]
Information obtained by Tallahassee Reports shows that over 33% of Leon County’s 2,346 students enrolled in home school have failed to comply with home school annual evaluation requirements. Some of the students have been out of compliance for one or more years. An audit just completed by Leon County Schools also found that these students […]
City staff is recommending that the Tallahassee City Commission award a technology contract to a company that was one of the highest bidders of the five companies that provided proposals. The company, HighStreet IT Solutions, who submitted a price of $2.74 million with their proposal, edged out the second place company, HTC Global Services on […]
About 25 people showed up to a Killearn Homeowners Association (KHA) meeting on Tuesday that featured a visit from Leon County Commissioner Bryan Desloge and officials from the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency. The topic of discussion was the Northeast Gateway. The Northeast Gateway project, which formally began with a kick-off meeting a couple of weeks ago […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Karen Leicht spent nearly three years in federal prison and three months on probation after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit insurance fraud in 2010. According to a judge and a former probation officer, Leicht’s sentence is over. But the Miami paralegal may never be […]
City staff is recommending that city commissioners vote to expand the City’s Water and Sewer Loans program to include a Whole House Plumbing Replacement program available to residential water utility customers. The reason for the program is the impact of the city’s aging water infrastructure. When the system fails -which is happening more frequently – […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that Andrew Gillum and his wife, R. Jai, registered a company in Florida called CJD Group, LLC on January 25th, 2019. The filing of the Limited Liability Company lists Andrew Gillum and R. Jai Gillum as Managers. The filing also lists Sharon Lettman-Hicks and Christopher Chestnut as Authorized Members. The registered […]