LOCAL NEWS
Today, at 9:00 a.m. the city will hold the first public hearing on the FSU and TMH Memorandum of Understanding and schedule the second Public Hearing for October 22, 2025.
A former Tallahassee teacher is now in state prison for misconduct with a student. State records show Sophina Webb arrived at the Florida Women’s Reception Center in Marion County on Monday. Arrest papers say she taught English at a Leon County high school. She pleaded no contest to exchanging nearly 9,000 sexual text messages with a 15-year-old girl in 2021.
The Salvation Army’s food distribution program has been impacted by a recent theft.
FLORIDA NEWS
More than 20 new state laws take effect today, ranging from increased criminal penalties for restraining and abandoning animals during natural disasters to a ban on the sale and use of license plate flippers.
Amid confusion over the impact of an appeals-court decision that overturned the state’s ban on openly carrying firearms, a House Democratic leader on Tuesday filed a measure seeking to ensure that certain places — such as legislative meetings, jails and police stations — remain gun-free zones.
NATIONAL NEWS
The federal government shut down at midnight after Congress failed to approve a short-term funding bill, triggering the furlough of an estimated 750,000 federal employees each day and disrupting operations across multiple agencies.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speak to gathering of high-ranking generals and admirals; call for higher standards for physical fitness and grooming, crackdown on US cities (More).
US stock markets close up (S&P 500 +0.4%, Dow +0.2%, Nasdaq +0.3%); S&P 500, Nasdaq cap off their best third quarter since 2020 while Dow hits new record (More).
TALLAHASSEE WEATHER
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Please STOP preaching to the choir. The folks on this site already know the issues. We already know the facts.
Don’t keep telling us the problems…tell us the solutions.
Fact: Democratic leftists are bullies and delight in the fact that they can criticize, terrorize and shame Conservative voters into submission, and conservative voters always try to persuade them with facts.
They have succeeded in Tallahassee…until you decide to stop this madness
Stop being defensive. Stop trying to persuade them with facts and figures. This is a losing battle.
You know they are mean-spirited and completely out of touch.
Stop trying to counter their arguments with logic. It does not work.
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We have suffered with this Democratic government in Tallahassee far too long.
Publius — Few people have a grasp on $37,000,000,000,000 other than to count digits and think, “wow — a 14 digit number!” Some quick math tells us that it’s about $110,000 for every citizen in the country. A retired couple owns nearly a quarter of a million of that debt and doesn’t have enough life left to pay it off. A family of five owns more than have a million. When the children reach adulthood they each peel off $110,000 of the family debt for their own.
As long as politicians are free spend it in ways that purchase votes that debt will never go away. In fact, without some radical changes I don’t see it being merely sustained at the current level.
Publius, good idea, but Republicans already know this.
Democrats only want to silence dissent…always. They despise political opposition. Opposing ideas are marginalized.
They preach that Republicans are the problem, and they repeat it over and over and over until people start to believe it.
Maybe an ongoing, educational articles TR about the huge debt the country has and the Administration’s efforts to avoid bankruptcy including imposing tarrifs to secure addition income, rooting fraud and abuse programs, the recent downgrading of the US financial rating which will increase government’s costs to borrow, etc etc