LOCAL NEWS
The latest employment report shows the number of jobs in Leon County in October remained basically unchanged when compared to September. There were 159,305 people working in Leon County in October compared to September’s revised employment number of 159,286.
The Children’s Services Council of Leon County (CSC Leon) will hold two committee meetings on Thursday, December 5. The meeting notices and agendas are published on the CSC website. Additional materials are posted on the website and may be distributed during the meeting. Members of the public are invited to attend in person or may view the livestream, when available, on this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc74A9evhLxbHIrH63-cIbQ
Tallahassee will see an extensive public murals project in 2025 funded by non-profit and CRA grants.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
Check out notable upcoming Leon County High School basketball games.
FLORIDA NEWS
Florida’s 2025 legislative session will begin with 26 new lawmakers in the 120-member state House and nine new Florida senators out of 40 — but the make-up of the chambers will shift in the coming months, due to President-elect Donald Trump.
Florida experienced one of the nation’s largest increases in high school graduation rates in the U.S. between 2011 and 2022 according to a report from the GRAD Partnership, a group of nine education organizations.
NATIONAL NEWS
The US Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s block on flavored e-cigarette products. The FDA has rejected over a million marketing applications for sweet-flavored vapes, citing youth addiction concerns. The case stems from a challenge by Triton, a company selling products like “Rainbow Road” and “Crème Brulee.”
Jury deliberations to begin today in trial of Daniel Penny, a former Marine charged in the May 2023 death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train (More).
US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.2%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +1.0%); S&P 500, Nasdaq rise to new intraday highs and close at new records (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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Murals are amazing. Those that hate murals are low IQ Karens and should move to the outerlands where they can scream and cry and not bother anyone.
You want to slow down or possibly stop “Graffiti and Tagging” around town? Allow groups to patrol known areas with Paintball Guns and allow them to use them on those doing it. They can post live Facebook and Tic-Toc Videos showing the Graffiti taking place and of them shooting them with Paintballs running them off.
“Tallahassee will see an extensive public murals project in 2025” as a “solution” to “Graffiti and tagging are especially a problem in Tallahassee’s downtown area, as well as Frenchtown and the Southside.
Really? So, adding a “higher quality” of graffiti to buildings is the “solution?” Actions like that just indicate that Tallahassee has no class and never will. Tallahassee continues to visually deteriorate and this “solution” just contributes to that decline.
Dan Penny trial . Almost guaranteed one juror will be a contrarian, the self anointed,
savoir of the misunderstood psychotics among us.The rebel juror’s argument will be: The crazy man on the subway only said, ”I want to kill someone”.
A trial New York. Good luck kid.