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LOCAL NEWS
For the week ending September 3, TPD reported 66 crime incidents. This included 27 violent crime incidents which is 26.8% above the average number of violent crime incidents reported on a weekly basis in 2022, which was 21.3.
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On Thursday September 7th at 8:30 a.m., the Tallahassee Growth Management Department will hold a Type A & Pre-Submittal meeting and address four projects, including the downtown Valencia Hotel project.
FLORIDA NEWS
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Yankeetown surveying the damage in the wake of Hurricane Idalia. DeSantis expressed his frustration with President Joe Biden’s statement connecting the storm to climate change. “And we’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters,” DeSantis said. “We know from history, there have been times where it’s been very busy in Florida.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also recently discussed the opportunity he will have at the next Republican presidential debate, specifically noting that he is tired of Republicans losing. He said “talk is ineffective, and that’s why my message has been simple: 2024 is the time to put up or shut up.”
Consumer sentiment among Floridians is steadily rising while national sentiment is falling. “Given that Florida’s economy is heavily reliant on tourism, fluctuations in visitor numbers could have a significant impact on the state’s economic landscape,” said Hector Sandoval from the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research.
A Leon County Circuit Court judge ruled against Florida’s Congressional map and ordered a Legislative redraw. The issue at-hand is the elimination of Congressional District 5, once held by former Congressman Al Lawson. Judge J. Lee Marsh said the plaintiffs were able to prove the “diminishment of black voters” and rejected the idea of carving out a district for black voters in Tallahassee that snakes all the way to Jacksonville was “gerrymandering.”
SPORTS
Labor Day weekend saw victories all across the board. FSU football knocked off No. 5 LSU, FAMU football defeated Jackson State in the Orange Blossom Classic, and FSU soccer defeated the USF Bulls on Sunday, 5-1, to extend their record to 3-0. FSU soccer is now No. 2 in the country.
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I didn’t think it would be published. You are now complicit in the ills plaguing this city and county.
The drug/crime/murder/sexual trafficking/prostitution/homelessness riddling Tallahassee are not going away until the rich and powerful making big $$$ from both “fixing” the problem, as well as profiteering from the runners; getting their rocks off with crack whores and trafficking victims and snuff films being made; and using their fancy cars to pick up mostly homeless men giving glory hole action or taking a spin around the block, performing the deed, and getting dropped back off for $10; as well as getting their drugs dirt cheap and with ease, find the penalties for so doing tremendously outweighing their greed and lust and kinky addictions. They hide in plain sight, “good, upstanding” churchgoers, supposed “pillars of the community.” Until Tallahassee addresses THESE sleazy purveyors of iniquity and human carnage, nothing whatsoever is going to change here.
And, if you think all of the pedestrian versus vehicle deaths are accidental or the fault of the pedestrian, you are wrong. Some/many are out-and-out murder/vengence.
Your sweet little Christian community is overflowing with street mafia, wolves in sheep’s clothing, preaching in your pulpits and sitting beside you in church and beside you in your charity work. They are your family, your friends, your neighbors, your fellow parishioners. Until you wake up to THAT FACT, until you resolve to follow the TRUTH wherever it leads, and to WHOMEVER it leads, and become earnestly committed to JUSTICE, you are just as guilty, you are just as complicit, and you are going to watch your town continue to rot from the inside out. Your children are going to continue kill one another, to suffer horrobly, and to die. Because you refuse to see, you refuse to speak out, and you refuse to act.
There, I just saved y’all tons of $$$ for think-tanks to try to solve the “mystery” of Tallahassee crime.
You’re welcome.
Just use the County Boarders to draw the Districts. No County should be cut in half.
District 5 is the definition of gerrymandering.