The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Friday, March 15, 2024

The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Friday, March 15, 2024

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LOCAL NEWS

The 2023 Annual Supervised Pretrial Release (SPTR) report will be presented to the Leon County Commission at their March 19, 2024 meeting. The SPTR – which is required by Florida law – provides details related to the operation of the program.

Leon County commissioners dodged a bullet in the 2024 legislative session. One bill, which would have imposed term limits on all Florida’s county commissioners, died on the last day of session.

Florida A&M University received a $9 million grant to develop community schools in North Florida. The grant came from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE). That’s all according to a Thursday FAMU press release.

LOCAL SPORTS NEWS

With a hearing scheduled April 9, Florida State University this week fired back at a request by the Atlantic Coast Conference to put on hold — or dismiss — a lawsuit that could lead to FSU leaving the athletic conference.

Tallahassee Soccer Club unveiled it’s 2024 slate in a schedule release on Thursday. Get the details.

FLORIDA NEWS

Buying a home has been a pricey proposition in Florida since the turn of the century. Four of the state’s cities are ranked among the top 20 when it comes to home prices increases in the  largest U.S. metropolitan areas since 2000.

The voting alignment of Florida’s congressional delegation with President Joe Biden reveals contrasts between the state’s Democratic and Republican lawmakers, an analysis of recent voting data provided by FiveThirtyEight shows. Get the details.

NATIONAL NEWS

A federal judge on Thursday rejected one bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial.

The US House of Representatives voted 352-65 on Wednesday to ban TikTok in the US unless its Chinese-based parent company, Bytedance, divests the popular social video network’s US operations within six months. The bill’s prospects in the Senate are unclear, though President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill should it pass.

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4 Responses to "The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Friday, March 15, 2024"

  1. Elected officials will NEVER vote to end their sweet ride on the taxpayer’s dime. They count on voter apathy and ignorance to keep them in office… and sadly, there is plenty of that.

  2. —>”Buying a home has been a pricey proposition in Florida since the turn of the century. Four of the state’s cities are ranked among the top 20 when it comes to home prices increases in the largest U.S. metropolitan areas since 2000.”<—

    This statistic should not surprise any intelligent person. Interest rates usually sky-rocket under a Democrat president. And what did you expect would happen when every employee is paid $15.00/hour. Liberals do not understand that people start a business TO MAKE MONEY. The consumer pays all the expenses plus some to make a profit.

  3. I think ALL Elected Offices should have Term Limits, 3 Terms Max.

    If you are NOT going to drop Trump’s Classified Documents Case then you must Charge Biden as well.

  4. Most of the faculty at FAMU can’t speak or write in complete sentences, now we are going to pay them to develop community schools? It’s like the blind leading the blind…

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