LOCAL NEWS
City Commissioner Jack Porter and Leon County School Board candidate Jeremy Rogers recently announced their respective campaigns were endorsed by Equality Florida. Rogers’ opponent – current school board member Laurie Cox – has been an advocate for parental rights and has spoken against Equality Florida positions.
Less than a year after JetBlue began servicing flights from the capital city, the airline has announced it will suspend all services from the Tallahassee International Airport (TLH).
Based on market conditions as of January 1, 2024, Leon County property owners will pay approximately $40 million more in property taxes to seven different taxing authorities in FY2025 when compared to FY 2024.
In a press release, the City of Tallahassee announced it will honor former Mayor John Robert Marks III by naming a building after him at a ceremony on Friday, July 26, at 9:30 a.m. On November 8, 2022, the Tallahassee City Commission voted unanimously to rename the Gemini Building in honor of former Tallahassee Mayor John R. Marks, III. Marks was first elected as mayor in 2003 and later re-elected in 2006 and 2010.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
Tallahassee’s 13U baseball team kicked off the southeast regional with a 4-0 win over Greenville Thursday night.
FLORIDA NEWS
Support for Amendment 3, the ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida, has diminished slightly but remains above the threshold needed for passage, according to recent polling data. Support for the amendment decreased marginally this month to 64 percent, while opposition increased to 27 percent, and undecided voters dropped to 9 percent, according to a poll conducted by the Tyson Group.
High school athletes in Florida, just like their college counterparts, will be able to make money off the field through endorsements and other kinds of deals.
NATIONAL NEWS
President Joe Biden delivered an Oval Office address yesterday, his first speech since announcing he would end his 2024 presidential reelection bid. Biden characterized his decision Sunday to exit the race as an effort to put aside ambition and pass the torch.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advocates for ongoing US support for Israel-Hamas war in speech to joint session of Congress (More).
Texas-based cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike yesterday blamed a bug in its software for Friday’s outage. In analyzing last week’s crash, the company outlined its plans to prevent a reoccurrence, including staggering future software updates.
US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -2.3%, Dow -1.3%, Nasdaq -3.6%), weighed down by underwhelming reports from Alphabet and Tesla; S&P 500 and Nasdaq record worst single-day performances since 2022 (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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@David:
The food vendors should’ve been located on the other side of the security check-in area. That’s where most of the people do their waiting.
But that is a business decision that would escape the grasp of Mayor Flintstone & Co., career leftist politicians.
@ David
I agree with your reasons for why the food vendors come and go. However, I’d like to suggest a change in your line-up. The first, and most important consideration, is finding out if you’ll have enough customers for what you’re offering. If you can’t answer yes, all the other business costs are not even factors worth considering. Without customers, you simply don’t have a business. Period!
Similarly, it appears Jet Blue failed to properly analyze the need for Tallahassee to Ft. Lauderdale flights. It only took them a few months to discover there was no real need and they pulled-out.
The “build it and they will come” approach to a business decision only works if you’re really sure what you’re “building” is something that people want.
@ Publius = I can only guess why Food Vendors come and go at the Airport and my Guess would be 3Fold: 01) High Rent. 02) High Prices. 03) Not enough Customers.
Skeptic: The Crowdstrike issue has been identified, For technicians working on the front lines, they can tell you exactly what caused this. It wasn’t in the “program” or an “upgrade”, it was an update file that had issues. Once the offending update file is deleted from the machine, the system was back to normal. Sometimes it is just as easy as a bad file. You can believe whatever you want. If you don’t run Crowdstrike, you were not hit by this outage. Crowdstrike has has similar(not as devastating) issues in the recent past.
As a periodic airline flyer, I find the ongoing cosmetic changes in the boarding areas amazing and when finished nothing really looks improved! Who are the contractors? Why do food vendors regularly come and go? What commercial businesses will be benefiting the new “international” area and how much has the City of Tallahassee spent?? How many Tallahasseans continue to fly out of Jacksonville and Panama City due to high ticket prices from Tallahassee?
David — I recall several years ago when a Microsoft “bug” put the Iranian centrifuges into wild spins and destroying them. The “bug” later escaped into the real world and went around the world.
I’ll never be convinced that the bug in the CrownStrike code was due to a routine upgrade and that it didn’t have “undocumented” purpose.
Correct me if I am wrong: I only found 4 Cities that Jetblu flew to from Tallahassee, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Philadelphia and Boston. If I am not mistaken, we have had several Airlines that specialized in flying to just a couple Cities out of Tallahassee over the Years leave soon after arriving because there was no market for it.
I listened to Biden’s speech and it was full of Lies, as usual.
If a CrownStrike Employee working on the Update Program installed the Bug while creating the Program, would that be considered a Hack? I am thinking that may have been what happened because I would think they would have tested the Program out many times looking for potential issues BEFORE sending it out to all those Computers.
I have said, Jet Blue would not succeed. I hope taxpayers didn’t have to buy in to their attempt to provide service. What this community needs is some that knows and understands the airplane business running the airport.