Just over two weeks before the scheduled opening of K-12 schools, the COVID positivity rate in Leon County – measured as a 7-day average – has been trending down over the last 37 days. As the chart below shows, the positivity rate peaked at 9.57% on July 4th and has trended down to the current […]
Amid a national controversy over the COVID drug hydroxychloroquine, the Tallahassee Democrat removed reference to the drug from a story that originally highlighted the use of Remdesivir along with hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for a COVID patient at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Officials at the Tallahassee Democrat have not responded to TR’s request for a comment. […]
St. John Episcopal Church, who hired Childers Construction as the lead contractor for the almost-completed “For All the Saints” capital campaign renovations, sent out a letter on July 30 addressing the recent controversy related to Sam Childers. Rev. David C. Killeen wrote that after hearing about the controversy, St. John’s assembled a group of church […]
Florida State University President John Thrasher, who recently took action against an FSU vendor who was accused of being racially insensitive, faced similar allegations in 2000. It was revealed last week that Sam Childers, a principal with Childers Construction, was accused of violating “FSU’s core values” when a picture recently surfaced of him dressed up […]
Less than a week after the Tampa Bay Times listed Gwen Graham as a potential challenger to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022, Graham gave Floridians a peek into how she would be different than DeSantis. Graham, via her Twitter account, is aggressively pushing for DeSantis to issue stay-at-home orders. In a tweet on July […]
The Florida Department of Education (FDOE) – through Richard Corcoran, the Commissioner of Education – has filed an administrative complaint against Leon County Schools principal David Solz for engaging in a sexual relationship with a married teacher who he supervised and for showing preferential treatment to that teacher. An administrative hearing has been set for […]
Based on the sheer volume of endorsements by local community leaders, the bid for City Commission Seat 1 is quickly becoming the race to watch. The campaign pits current City Commissioner Elaine Bryant against three challengers. However, a closer look at social media presence, donations, and endorsements reveals that race is shaping up to be […]
During a recent appearance on The Morning Show with Preston Scott, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil addressed current events and specifically addressed a national narrative that white police officers are indiscriminately killing black citizens. On the protests, McNeil confirmed statements made by Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell earlier in the week related to agitators among […]
According to data gathered and published by the Washington Post, the number of people killed in police related shootings in Florida has varied little from year to year during the period of 2015 to 2018. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of police shooting fatalities in Florida ranged from a low of 58 in […]
According to data gathered and published by the Washington Post, the number of people killed in police related shootings has varied little from year to year during the period of 2015 to 2018. However, the number of police related shootings involving unarmed victims has fallen dramatically during the same period. In this report the word […]