UPDATED At today’s budget workshop, City Commissioners unanimously approved of City staff’s plan to provide a $15/hour minimum wage for all permanent and OPS employees. Original Story At the City of Tallahassee budget workshop today, elected officials will discuss workforce compensation and consider a staff recommendation that all permanent and Other Personnel Staff (OPS) employees […]
Tropical Storm Elsa is expected to make landfall in Cuba and part of the Florida Keys before heading to mainland Florida. The storm will be bringing approximately 60 mile-per-hour winds and will drop five to ten inches of rain in Cuba. Governor Ron DeSantis issued a state of emergency for 15 Florida counties, with nine […]
UPDATE 7:56 School Board meeting is adjourned. UPDATE 7:53 DeeDee Rasmussen to the rescue…sort of. Rasmussen, due to a potential conflict, will not vote on construction related items. UPDATE 7:51 When asked about her exit, Striplin told TR she had no comment. UPDATE 7:39 Leon County School Board is in recess while waiting on another […]
Washington Post reporter Hannah Dreier posted a series of tweets over the weekend pushing a politicized perspective on the Surfside, Fl. condo collapse. Dreier’s claim is that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis did not give permission for FEMA provide on-the-ground aid for a full day. Dreier’s tweets have since been debunked. “There’s a saying in emergency […]
At the June 29th meeting, the Leon County School Board will consider the approval of Superintendent Hanna’s Instructional Personnel recommendations for 2021-2022 school year. Listed below are the recommendations for Gilchrist Elementary School.
The latest jobs report shows that there were 148,970 people working in Leon County in May, which is 23 more than last month. The May unemployment rate came in at 4.5%, down from the 4.7% reported last month. One year ago the May, 2020 unemployment rate was 9.0%. In May, 2019 the unemployment rate was […]
Driven by a decrease in property crime, the 2020 Leon County crime rate fell by 20.4% when compared to 2019 numbers. Leon County’s crime rate per 100,000 population was ranked 6th among the 67 Florida counties. In 2019 the Leon County crime rate was ranked 3rd. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s release of the […]
A far-left legal nonprofit has filed the latest lawsuit against the state of Florida over its new election law. “The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the groups HeadCount and the Harriet Tubman Freedom Fighters Corp., is the fourth challenge to the law, which was passed in April by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed in May […]
According to publicly available data, gas prices in Tallahassee have increased approximately 45.6% over the last 12 months. The current price of a gallon of regular gas, as of June 19, was $2.97. This is up from $2.04 per gallon reported one year ago. The chart below shows the 12-months trend of average gas prices […]
Sales of existing single-family homes in Leon county were up 47.6% when compared to numbers sold in the same month one year ago. There were 229 single-family home resales in May 2020 and 338 resales in May 2021. Last month there were 302 existing single-family homes sold. The average sales price in May 2021 increased […]