LOCAL NEWS
Travel records reviewed by Tallahassee Reports shows that Leon County’s progressive politicians have elected to attend conferences with left-wing agendas while ignoring the Chamber’s Annual Community Conference which focuses on a broad range of Tallahassee centric issues.
J. Brent Pichard opines on what he calls the “Property Tax Shell Game.”
Seven months through 2024, the number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department remain down when compared to 2023. Get the details.
FLORIDA NEWS
At least four people killed after Debby makes landfall on Florida’s Big Bend coast on the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane before downgrading to a tropical storm (More).
Voters have started casting mail-in ballots, and early-voting sites started opening in some areas of the state Monday — and will have to be open statewide on Saturday. Here are five Senate primaries to watch.
Florida gas prices rose slightly last week, increasing by a little more than six cents, bringing the state average to $3.46 per gallon as of Sunday, according to the latest data from AAA .
NATIONAL NEWS
Vice President Kamala Harris officially became the Democratic nominee for president yesterday after a five-day virtual roll-call process ended. She is expected to announce her running mate today before kicking off a five-day campaign tour across seven battleground states.
Global stock markets tanked yesterday over concerns of a slowing US economy after a weaker-than-expected US jobs report Friday showed hiring slowed and unemployment rose to its highest rate in nearly three years. The data triggered the “Sahm Rule,” when the three-month average unemployment rate rises 0.5 points above its 12-month low, a historically accurate recession indicator.
A federal judge yesterday ruled Google violated antitrust laws by illegally holding a monopoly on online search and text advertising. The verdict comes in the first and biggest tech antitrust trial in over two decades and could alter how technology giants conduct business in the modern internet era.
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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