The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, October 23, 2025

LOCAL NEWS

The Tallahassee City Commission voted to advance a sale of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night.

The Tallahassee City Commission voted to gather more information before making a decision on the proposed sale of city land to the Capital City Country Club.

The Tallahassee City Commission voted 3-2 to defeat a motion to end the city’s cooperation with ICE via a 287(g) agreement.

Steve Stewart discusses controversy over CSC impact report.

FLORIDA NEWS

The Florida Citrus Commission on Wednesday moved forward with a $23.4 million budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, as the industry comes out of a year with historically low production.

Ahead of the 2026 legislative session, Gov. Ron DeSantis trumpeted Florida’s property and automobile insurance laws and warned members of the House of Representatives against trying to change them when the Legislature convenes in regular session in January.

NATIONAL NEWS

The federal government shutdown enters its 23rd day today, after becoming the second-longest funding lapse in modern history, eclipsing the 1995-96 shutdown during the Clinton administration. 

US military kills two people in eighth strike on an alleged narcotrafficking boat, this time in the Pacific Ocean (More).

US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.5%, Dow -0.8%, Nasdaq -0.9%) (More).

TALLAHASSEE WEATHER

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7 Comments

  1. Edward Lyle
    Edward Lyle

    Going out on a limb here, Dee, but I'm pretty sure the family and friends of the hundreds of thousands of victims of drug overdoses and related deaths do in fact care about drug traffickers. And once the cartels are designated "terrorists", all bets are off with respect to jurisdictional boundaries.

  2. Dee Christensen
    Dee Christensen

    No one cares about drug traffickers. What they care about are international laws that govern stops on the high seas in effect since 1958. Further, US law gives the Coast Guard jurisdiction on maritime stops, not the Navy who fall under title 10.

  3. Doug Johnson
    Doug Johnson

    Y'all never fail to live up to expectations or entertain.

  4. August West
    August West

    How do you go from reporting 127000 to 7000 with a straight face?

    The CSC is a boondoggle that wastes millions of dollars every year and then they try to pass off blatantly false reports on what they are doing with it.

    If that ain't fraud, it's certainly fraudulent.

  5. Proud Rural Redneck
    Proud Rural Redneck

    Do you want your Air Traffic Controller’s full attention to guiding your flight or distracted with worries of how will I feed my family and pay my bills?

    Apparently Rand Paul and the Democrats don’t seem worried.

  6. Edward Lyle
    Edward Lyle

    Multiple taxpayer funded entities, both public and private, seem only to facilitate spending millions upon millions upon millions to feed so-called impoverished children. At the same time, we lament ever-growing the rate of childhood obesity and diabetes.

    Hmmmmmm... dichotomy much? (sarcasm off)

  7. The Spider
    The Spider

    "...US military kills two people in eighth strike on an alleged narcotrafficking boat.."

    You MEAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS? They aren't 'people'.
    They are CRIMINALS trying to kill you and me. You support that? Well you are journalists and you all do hate America. So I'm not surprised.

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