Current Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna filed paper work with the Leon County Supervisor of Elections on Friday, January 3rd, to seek re-election to the office he won in 2016. Hanna, as he did in the 2016 election, filed to run for the partisan office as a NPA candidate – no party affiliation. Hanna […]
Listed below are the top viewed stories published by Tallahassee Reports. As you will see, the top stories cover a wide range issues. These include Andrew Gillum, crime, the local investigation into government corruption, the Killearn golf course, and the Leon County school system. 1. Attorney John Morgan Labels Gillum a #Fraudster, Asks for Refund […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — It wasn’t the most important issue or event of 2019. But a little more than a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis took office, he held a news conference in Central Florida that removed any doubt the Rick Scott era was over. Flanked by Congressman Matt […]
Jimmy Graganella, who is heading up a group seeking to purchase the Killearn Golf & Country Club, released the following statement today: To all Killearn Members and interested parties: A major milestone has been achieved in the effort to acquire and renovate Killearn Country Club. Barton Tuck has signed a Purchase Agreement signifying that buyer […]
TPD UPDATE Around 11 p.m. on Saturday night, December 28, 2019, TPD officers located and pursued a stolen white Ford Fusion believed to be involved in the attempted homicide in the Ox Bottom Crest neighborhood earlier the same day. The vehicle crashed in the area of Fairlane Road & Sherwood Drive. Six people fled from […]
Josepha “Jeppa” Ribaudo, B.S.R.N. lost her valiant fight against cancer on December 10, while in the excellent care of the medical team and staff at Capital Regional Medical Center as well as the Florida Cancer Specialist and Research Institute. It was also at Capital Regional Medical Center where she spent the last decades of her […]
The City of Tallahassee has released the employment agreement for Police Chief Lawrence Revell. See full agreement here. The agreement appears to be consistent with the agreement offered to the previous candidate Antonio Gilliam on retention and organizational control issues, The annual salary is set at $180,000 and states that the chief will serve “at […]
The City of Tallahassee has scheduled three events for the community to meet new Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell who will be sworn-in on January 6th, “We’re going to have real conversations about real issues. I hope you take the time to attend one of the upcoming meetings because opening the lines of communication is […]
The latest employment information shows that Leon County lost 811 jobs in November. One year ago Leon County lost 185 jobs. Despite the job losses, the unemployment rate in November declined from 2.8% in October to 2.5%. The decline was aided by a decline in people looking for work from October to November. One year […]
Information provided by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) shows that there were 57 incidents reported during the week of December 11th-17th. The data indicates there were 48 property incidents and 9 violent incidents. A regional breakdown of the incidents – based on TPD defined quadrants – shows that the Northwest quadrant of Tallahassee led the […]