The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, December 11, 2025

LOCAL NEWS

The City of Tallahassee has agreed to sell the Capitol City Country Club golf course to the club for about $1.2 million.

FLORIDA NEWS

In his final budget proposal, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday rolled out a $117.36 billion plan for the 2026-2027 fiscal year that includes increased money for teachers and law-enforcement officers.

NATIONAL NEWS

The Department of Homeland Security signed a $140M contract to purchase six Boeing 737 planes that the agency will use for deportations, reports revealed yesterday. DHS penned the deal with Daedalus Aviation—a Virginia-based company whose leadership also signed a separate, nearly $1B contract with the agency to support self-deportations. 

US military seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela after President Donald Trump calls on President Nicolás Maduro to step down; Trump suggests strikes on Venezuelan territory could begin “very soon” (More).

The Federal Reserve announcedquarter-percentage-point cut in benchmark rates yesterday, bringing the range to between 3.5% and 3.75%. Markets closed higher on the news (S&P 500 +0.7%, Dow +1.1%, Nasdaq +0.3%).

TALLAHASSEE WEATHER

2 Responses to "The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Thursday, December 11, 2025"

  1. So, the country club offered them 1.5 million for the property and the city comes back with a counteroffer of 1.2 million… something stinks in Denmark, or I woke up in bizzarro world this morning.

    The people running this city are not on our side.

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