New FSU Football Guidelines Include Masks for All Fans, Negative COVID Tests for Students
Last week, Florida State University announced new guidelines for students and fans attending home football games after receiving backlash from the season…
Year: 2020
GOP Chairman, Incoming Speaker Fight Minimum Wage Hike
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Two state Republican leaders added their voices Monday in opposition to a…
Leon County Commissioners Vote to Maintain Phase 2 Following Phase 3 Executive Order
Meeting Update At their Sept. 29 meeting, the Leon County Commissioners voted 5-2 to maintain Phase 2 of Leon County’s reopening plan…
Case Against LCS Principal David Solz Dismissed by Administrative Law Judge
In a 30 page order dated September 21st – based on an administrative hearing held July 27th and 28th – Florida Administrative…
COVID Zip Code Report for Week Ending September 26
The graph below shows the change in new COVID cases over a six week period for Leon County’s major zip codes. Observations:…
Weekly Report on Leon County COVID Cases Shows Declining Trends
TR’s weekly report (September 21-27th) on Leon County COVID cases, hospitalizations, and testing positivity rates shows declines in all three categories. TR’s…
CDC Releases Updated COVID-19 Fatality Rate Data
The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has released an update to their research on the fatality rate associated with COVID-19. The…
FSU Preview – Florida State versus Miami
Today at 7:30 on ABC Florida State will take on the Miami Hurricanes at Hard Rock Stadium. The Seminoles are 30-34 against…
DeSantis Lifts COVID-19 Business Restrictions
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted state COVID-19 business restrictions Friday, including limits on…
DeSantis Takes Aim at Local Restaurant Restrictions
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to prohibit local governments from being able to…
Vote-By-Mail Ballots Set to Go Out
By The News Service of Florida Potentially millions of ballots could hit the mail starting Thursday for the Nov. 3 general election…
City Commission Tables Emergency Ordinance Prohibiting Large Gatherings
At today’s City Commission meeting, Commissioners tabled a last-minute addition to the agenda related to options for mitigating COVID-19 spread caused by…