Days after Tallahassee Reports broke a story about Nikki Fried amending her financial disclosure forms ahead of her gubernatorial campaign announcement, an ethics complaint has been filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics. The complaint is focused on Fried’s failure to report lobbying income she received from a marijuana client in 2017 & 2018. Read […]
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Speaking at a private school in Jacksonville on the first day of Pride Month, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed a wide-ranging education bill that includes a ban on transgender females participating on girls’ and women’s high-school and college sports teams. The measure (SB 1028), […]
NOTE 06/01: No daily updates from 5/29-5/31. Numbers provided 6/1 are averaged to provide daily estimates. NOTE 01/01: There was no report from FDOH on 01/01. NOTE 12/26: There was no report from FDOH on 12/25. NOTE 11/27: There was no report from FDOH on 11/26. NOTE 10/11: There was no DOH COVID daily report […]
Last week the Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency voted 11-1 to move forward with a $2.6 million incentive package for an economic development project labeled “Project Mango.” City Commissioner Jack Porter was the only elected official to vote no. Provided below are her comments from the Blueprint meeting explaining her vote. Support Local, Fact-Based Journalism witha $50 […]
U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist (D-13) leads all Florida Democrats in the 2022 gubernatorial primary in a recently released St. Pete Polls survey. In the poll, Crist came away with 55 percent of respondents, while likely candidate and Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried only drew 22 percent. Only 11 percent of voters are supporting other candidates […]
Sales of existing single-family homes in Leon county were up 12.7% when compared to numbers sold in the same month one year ago. There were 268 single-family home resales in April 2020 and 302 resales in April 2021. Last month there were 316 existing single-family homes sold. The average sales price in April 2021 increased […]
During the May 25th School Board meeting the Board approved an agreement between The Leon County School Board and the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce and a payment of $50,000. The agreement relates to the World Class Schools of Leon County, Inc., a program of the Chamber. World Class Schools (WCS) is a 501(c)(3) program […]
The latest jobs report shows that there were 148,951 people working in Leon County in April, which is 518 more than last month. The unemployment rate came in 4.6%, unchanged from last month. One year ago the April, 2020 unemployment rate was 8.9%. In April, 2019 the unemployment rate was 2.8%. Due to the COVID […]
Provided below is the Targeted Business Program application form for Project Mango. This application is part of the process for determining the “value” of the project to the community. PROJECT MANGO APPLICATION
The Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency (IA) is scheduled to address several major economic development projects at the May 27th meeting. The IA Board consists of the seven Leon County Commissioners and five Tallahassee City Commissioners. Project Mango Project Mango, the code name for the potential expansion of a yet-to-be named Fortune 500 Company into the Tallahassee […]