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LOCAL NEWS
On April 10th, 2024, Tallahassee City Commissioner Jack Porter made comments critical of TPD Chief Revell related to a recent DUI case which resulted in a guilty verdict.
According to the Florida Association of Realtors, the median sales price of a single-family home in the Tallahassee MSA during the first two months of 2024 has dropped 2.4% when compared to first two months of 2023. Sales prices dropped from $307,500 to $300,000.
The Kearney Center will now be charging a fee for clients coming from out-of-state due to a recent influx seen in the center the past few months. The center is charging out-of-state clients $10 per night in order for them to stay at the facility and will operate on a case-by-case basis. Executive Director Sonya Wilson said the fee will strictly go towards food and shelter.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
Daquan Davis (6-1, 165) has signed a National Letter of Intent to play Basketball for Leonard Hamilton and the Florida State Seminoles. The Baltimore, Md., native most recently averaged 17.9 points, 6.1 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.7 steals per game while playing with the YNG Dreamers in the Overtime Elite Basketball league during the 2023-24 season. Davis is one of the top guards entering college for the 2024-25 season.
FLORIDA NEWS
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Wednesday requiring that schools teach the accurate history of communism in classrooms. The legislation requires “age and developmentally appropriate” instruction on the history of communism, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year.
Former State Attorney Andrew Warren announced he will now seek reelection to the seat he was suspended from by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022. In his announcement video, Warren claimed DeSantis “illegally” forced Warren out of office. Warren said he took DeSantis to court over the suit. Those suits resulted in DeSantis’ suspension being upheld multiple times.
Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate – challenging Rick Scott – Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is criticizing Scott for what she says are inconsistencies in his stance on abortion. “Rick Scrambling Scott is just so extreme, he can’t help but double down on his support for a near-total abortion ban before most women know they are pregnant,” Mucarsel-Powell said on Wednesday
NATIONAL NEWS
US House leadership proposed a $95B foreign aid package yesterday consisting of three funding bills for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The vote, expected to occur Saturday night, will come two months after the House declined to take up similar legislation passed by the Senate. Lawmakers faced renewed pressure to pass the aid after Iran’s missile-and-drone attack against Israel last weekend.
Donald Trump is due in Manhattan court on Thursday as lawyers continue searching for jurors to decide the former U.S. president’s fate in a historic criminal trial just months before his upcoming rematch with President Joe Biden.
US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.6%, Dow -0.1%, Nasdaq -1.2%); S&P 500, Nasdaq close down for fourth day as stocks are dragged down by tech giants, including Nvidia, which fell nearly 4% (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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Jacqueline Porter’s big win %margin in 2020 over all that chamber money piqued my interest. She has held up her end saying No to tax hike and has impressed me overall
@ TallyPatriot = I know back in 1979 they taught it, not sure why they stopped (if they did).
So who didn’t think that Kearney Center would not attract homeless here? Been a lifelong resident and only noticed the flood of homeless on the street corners after that thing was built. Imagine that. If you build it they will come…..
DeSantis forces public schools to teach about communism but doesn’t mandate that his pet charter schools do the same.