The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, June 20, 2024

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LOCAL NEWS

TR’s meeting briefs from the June 19th, 2024 Tallahassee City Commission meeting are now available.

BJ Van Camp, Director of Lively Technical College (Lively) and a local educator of over 20 years, recently appeared on the Steve Stewart Show on Real Talk 93.3 to discuss LTC’s dual enrollment program.

After more than a year of negotiations between the City of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Professional Firefighters Union, a special magistrate has recommended a solution in a detailed, 26-page analysis.

LOCAL SPORTS NEWS

No. 8 Florida State saw its 2024 campaign come to an end with a 7-2 loss to No. 1 Tennessee Wednesday at the College World Series. The Seminoles finish 49-17, a 26-win improvement from last season that culminated in a spot in the national semifinals for the first time since 2012.

FLORIDA NEWS

Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s state-backed insurer, proposed an average rate increase of 13.5 percent for policyholders during it’s Board of Governor’s (BOG) meeting on Wednesday.

A Leon County circuit judge on Tuesday heard arguments about whether Florida State University’s lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference should be allowed to continue, in the latest chapter in a series of legal fights playing out in Tallahassee and North Carolina.

NATIONAL NEWS

Politico: Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.

OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever announced a new venture yesterday, Safe Superintelligence Inc. The project will seek to launch a “safe” artificial general intelligence, hearkening to OpenAI’s founding goals but without its current pressures from investors and consumers. 

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