The Tallahassee Reports Morning Briefs: Monday, Feb. 13

The Tallahassee Reports Morning Briefs: Monday, Feb. 13

LOCAL NEWS

At the last Tallahassee City Commission meeting, City Commissioner Matlow commented on a Florida gun proposal, a proposed property registry, and the noise ordinance. Check out TR’s meeting briefs.

On March 16th, the CVS store located on South Monroe St. will officially close their doors, and all prescriptions will be transferred to other CVS locations. Many members of the community were disheartened when finding out another resource for their community would soon be gone.

Local Leon County mother and plaintiff, January Littlejohn, was recently a featured guest on The Morning Show with Preston Scott on iHeart Radio. Littlejohn has gained state and national notoriety after filing a lawsuit against Leon County Schools for their transgender policies they implemented with her daughter without the Littlejohns’ permission. Get the details.

After an investigation, it was announced a Fairview Middle School student was arrested last Monday for bringing a gun to school. The 14-year-old male was identified and it was determined that he brought the firearm from a family member’s home and no other weapons were found. The student was transported to the Leon County Juvenile Assessment Center and is charged with one count of Possession of a Firearm on Campus.

FLORIDA NEWS

In a short special session, the Florida Legislature sent one bill to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The bill would send $700 million to communities recovering from hurricanes Ian and Nicole. If signed, it will at once create a dedicated Local Government Emergency Bridge Loan Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity. That will facilitate $50 million in nonrecurring dollars from the general revenue fund. Another $650 million in general revenue would also be transferred to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Fund.

Another bill was sent to governor’s desk and it would budget $10 million for more migrant flights, shipping illegal aliens out of Florida, from the Florida Department of Transportation to the Department of Emergency Management.

SPORTS NEWS

After their first weekend of rain delays and late games, the FSU softball team is 4-1 after defeating Longwood in the Joanne Graf Classic Sunday, 5-0. The Noles came out with wins over Lipscomb, Longwood, and Purdue. However, surprisingly, Longwood upset the Noles 5-4 in Saturday’s contest. But the Noles will be playing in a Tuesday doubleheader against FAMU with games at 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

No. 19 FSU women’s basketball endured back-to-back losses for the first time this season after losing to the No. 11 Virginia Tech Hokies, 84-70. Sophomore forward Makayla Timpson recorded her 23rd double-figure scoring game of the season with 12 points while adding seven rebounds and a blocked shot. Freshman Ta’Niya Latson added 15 points and became the 10th Seminole to surpass 200 made field goals in a season.

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3 Responses to "The Tallahassee Reports Morning Briefs: Monday, Feb. 13"

  1. Read the bill, it makes it legal for Florida to go into other states to remove people and take them to another state.
    More millions of our taxes will be wasted when DeSantis’ gives it to his private flight company cronies to do this. If other states wants to use their own money to remove people within their own borders, that’s one thing, DeSantis has no business going into their state to be their house cleaner.

  2. Another bill was sent to governor’s desk and it would budget $10 million for more migrant flights…

    Let’s make it 20 million and include all the homeless and career criminals/thugs our court systems refuse to appropriately punish.

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