LOCAL NEWS
The Leon County School District is moving full-speed-ahead to bring the county’s displaced Head Start program into elementary schools that have unused space as enrollment numbers decline.
Steve Stewart discusses the latest on the 4-3 vote against allowing for more single-family construction in Leon County.
Obituary: Dr. John Robert Sanders, 78, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family on December 9, 2025. He was born on January 4, 1947, in Clopton, Alabama, to Glen and Robbie Sanders. After graduating from Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1973, John and Lorraine moved to Tallahassee where he opened Westwood Animal Clinic.
FLORIDA NEWS
The push by Gov. Ron DeSantis and state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo to repeal some of the state’s vaccine requirements for public schools and day care kicked off Friday with a lengthy and contentious hearing held in a hotel in Florida’s Panhandle.
NATIONAL NEWS
A gunman who targeted students at Brown University Saturday remained at large yesterday, after authorities said they would release a person of interest from custody. The gunman, who has yet to be publicly identified, killed two people and wounded nine others, with one of the wounded victims in critical condition as of this writing. See live updates here.
Two gunmen—a father and his son—attacked a Hanukkah event in Sydney, Australia, yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more. One gunman is dead, while the other is in custody. Authorities called the shooting a terrorist attack on Australia’s Jewish community.
US stock markets close down Friday (S&P 500 -1.1%, Dow -0.5%, Nasdaq -1.7%), driven by anxiety in AI stocks; Broadcom falls 11% despite beating Q4 projections (More).
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Innovative thinking, Alan.
I am so weary of our City Commission members, past and present, with weak spines who acquiesce to every political group (social, environmental, minimal government intervention, socialist, grassroots…) person who only reads the dead and dying legacy newspaper.
We modern citizens ain’t the old foot shuffling, leave it like it is (and has been since the 1960’s), sleepy south. State Capital anymore.
Seattle and Portland have a place for you and your socialist lifestyle.
The rest of us want to move into the 21st century, or at least to NE Leon Co. (North of Moby Dick’s), and form a separate form of governing.
The way to maximize the urban core is through redevelopment. Look at what has happened on Gaines, going form industrial to housing. Tennessee St is being redeveloped, going into Frenchtown. Sure, all this is student housing, but there are other areas that have old, tired strip malls with big parking lots they don’t need or use that could be repurposed. The vision that fell through for Tallahassee Mall is an example, and could still be pulled off into a great live/work play place. We could build tall housing next to the new police station. Perhaps FSU could be convinced to turn what was Alumni village into housing for young employees just staring out and/or empty nesters, connected to the University in some way. There are lots of possibilities along existing major throughfares which in turn could support increased public transportation. I think this would also help us keep young people here after they graduate, if we could develop these opportunities.
The 4-3 vote against allowing for more single-family construction in Leon County BUT, it should have been a unanimous. The County Commission is stopping the Zoning Change that will switch it from building 1 Home per 10 Acres to up to 20 Dwellings per Acre. I’d be Ok with ONE Home Per Acre. The sad thing is, we all know that the Developers will win anyway, they only have to buy one.