LOCAL NEWS
The race for Tallahassee’s next mayor has begun to take shape, with Camron Cooper becoming the first candidate to officially file for the 2026 election. City Commissioner Matlow has previously announced his intentions to run and more recently TR reported Mayor Dailey has decided to run for re-election.
TR POLL: Do you support camera enforcement of speed limits during the entire school day?
FLORIDA NEWS
With Gov. Ron DeSantis signing a state budget and a flurry of other bills, the dust has settled on the 2025 legislative session. Here are 10 laws that took effect Tuesday, the start the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
A new migrant detention center opened yesterday in the Florida Everglades, with President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in attendance. Nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” the 39-square-mile site located at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport can house up to 5,000 detainees and is surrounded by swampland filled with alligators and pythons, which officials say serves as a natural security barrier.
NATIONAL NEWS
The US Senate narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s tax and domestic policy bill yesterday. The final tally was 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The revised, 940-page document heads to the House for consideration.
US job openings rose to 7.8 million in May, up from 7.4 million in April and the highest level since November (More)
US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow +1.0%, Nasdaq -0.8%) (More).
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I’d be a whole lot more accepting of the red light cameras (which should only operate during the times of day when children are going to and from school) if the huge amount of money collected went to the schools where children are being protected rather than other entities.
No, I don’t support cameras. We’ve seen the red light camera timings jiggered to maximize revenues in crazy California.
Regarding the poll on speed limit enforcement.
There are so few police on routine patrol these days that it has to be asked, “what are they doing with their time?” Even routine traffic accidents get a “Community Support Officer”, not a policeman. Putting cops back on the street will help get people to drive more sanely, including the exorbitant number of red light runners that we have.
And much of this would be solved by traffic light timing that made sense. Instead of metering traffic, flow traffic in the dominant direction. Better timing would greatly decrease the wear-and-tear on brakes. With more than a million total brake applications just during quitting time traffic it has to be asked how many brake jobs, per day, are a result of the ineffective timing. And since we’re well into the “conserve fuel” era, how much gas is needlessly burned just because the traffic department doesn’t understand the middle-school math of Rate*Time=Distance?
I’m thinking Matlow will wimp out and not register. Daily will beat him easily, I’m wanting to know more about Camron Cooper.