The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, July 31, 2025

LOCAL NEWS

During the Tuesday Leon County School Board meeting, officials voted to move forward with a $645 million tentative budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.

The Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce has named Michael Dalby to succeed longtime CEO Sue Dick.

On Tuesday, July 29, the Leon County School Board voted unanimously to approve the Greenpoint/Welaunee Heel Subdivision School Concurrency Agreement between the school board and GreenPointe Developers.

FLORIDA NEWS

A federal judge on Wednesday allowed the Miccosukee Tribe to join a lawsuit filed by environmental groups challenging an immigrant-detention center in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

NATIONAL NEWS

President Donald Trump announced a slew of tariff-related updates yesterday. The changes come as most countries will face rates of 15% to 20% beginning overnight, at 12:01 am ET. 

Hearings began yesterday in the federal probe into January’s fatal midair collision of an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk in Washington, DC. Sixty-seven people were killed in the plane crash—the US’ deadliest since November 2001.

US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq +0.2%) (More

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