LOCAL NEWS
TR’s November print edition front page:
TR’s 4-week trend analysis (as of Oct 27) shows a 4.6% increase in total crime incidents. This increase is driven by a 23.6% spike in auto related property crimes when compared to the same 4-week period in 2023. The report also shows a 28.4% decrease in violent crime incidents during this period.
Florida Realtors report: The report shows that there were 287 September single-family sales in the Tallahassee MSA, down 11.7% when compared to last year. The median sales price was $310,000, up 1.5% from September 2023.
On Tuesday, October 29, the Leon County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) and Leon County Government introduced a newly activated Forestry Patrol Deputy, further strengthening public safety and expanding law enforcement coverage in western Leon County including the Apalachicola National Forest.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
Chiles Timberwolves volleyball team wins regional final, headed to FHSAA championships next week.
FLORIDA NEWS
Voters are casting ballots on a proposal, known as Amendment 1, that would require partisan school-board elections starting in 2026.
Republicans continue to win the ballot chase as the early voting period nears a close, and now hold their biggest lead of the 2024 cycle over Democrats
NATIONAL NEWS
The US Supreme Court temporarily allowed a voter-removal program to continue in Virginia yesterday after a federal judge blocked the initiative last week. The emergency stay comes less than a week before the general election, in which over 56 million people across the US have already cast votes (see data and map).
US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq -0.6%) after report shows US economy grew slower-than-expected in Q3 at a 2.8% annual rate (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
The problem? They are also inadvertently removing citizens. So what stopped them from starting this effort in December 2023 or January 2024?
It is difficult to process the thought that any county or state in the US had to go all the way to the SCOTUS to be allowed to remove non-citizen’s names from its voter rolls.
Even more difficult to process than the notion that requiring photo ID to vote is racial profiling.
Even a small measure of common sense should tell anyone intelligent enough to vote that non-citizens do not have to right to vote in any country. The same goes for identifying the individual who is voting.
from what’s on twitter, it looks like Thomas Whitley is looking for some bisexual couples to share control over his Presbyterian pastor wife!