LOCAL NEWS
Steve Stewart discusses the recent Tallahassee City Commission meeting on The Preston Scott Show.
A decision over who will be Florida A&M University’s next president is expected Friday. The four finalists are visiting the campus this week, and on Wednesday, the candidate garnering the most local pushback made her visit.
LOCAL SPORTS NEWS
Although Chiles lost in the finals to Seminole Ridge, they recorded the best flag football season in program history while making it past regional finals for the first time.
FLORIDA NEWS
Florida had a reported 13,951 abortions this year as of May 5, down nearly 38 percent from a similar period in 2024, according to new data posted online by the state Agency for Health Care Administration.
The League of Women Voters of Florida and several affiliated organizations filed an emergency motion Tuesday to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a recently enacted Florida law that changes the rules for citizen-led constitutional amendments.
NATIONAL NEWS
US drug overdose deaths dropped by 30,000 in 2024, a provisional report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed yesterday. The 27% drop—from 110,000 deaths in 2023 to 80,000 last year—is the largest one-year decline on record, bringing annual overdose deaths to their lowest level since before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) unveils $322B state spending plan for 2025 fiscal year; he reveals $12B state budget deficit, blames higher-than-expected Medicaid costs, and says he plans to end undocumented immigrants’ access to state’s healthcare program (More).
US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.1%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.7%), with Nvidia shares continuing to drive up the Nasdaq following US-Saudi investment summit earlier this week (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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I just cannot fall back in love with this City because of all the political, Democratic, social agendas I keep reading about.
Tallahassee is so out of step with most of the rest of the nation.