Tallahassee Reports has confirmed that City Commissioner Nancy Miller’s husband, John Buss, approved approximately $420,402 in purchase orders for DPB & Associates, a company affiliated with his brother, Rich Buss. John Buss is listed as a Division Director in the City of Tallahassee’s Underground Utilities Department. TR has recently detailed the relationship between Commissioner Nancy […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that the City of Tallahassee is requiring fired employees not to pursue past or current employment complaints to receive severance benefits. Sources have told TR that a number of city employees were fired late last week. So far, the City of Tallahassee has provided no information about the firings through the […]
Tallahassee Reports has obtained a copy of a legal journal article recently written by Julie Meadows-Keefe, the City of Tallahassee Ethics Officer, which reveals that she believed the ethics climate in Tallahassee before the creation of the independent ethics board was “benign.” The article entitled, “From Rumblings to Reality: One City’s Story of Ethics Reform“, was […]
Tallahassee Reports recently published a story about a $4,700 discount on a catering bill from the Edison restaurant given to a family member of Tallahassee City Manager Rick Fernandez. The Edison restaurant, which was partly developed with city funds, has a contract with the City of Tallahassee to lease the old electric building in Cascades […]
So…you wake up on Sunday morning and see a headline in the local paper about the recently revealed FBI investigation. You’re anxious because your name was in the FBI subpoenas recently dropped at city hall, so you expect the worst. You read the story and find your name is mentioned seven times in connection with […]
Tallahassee Police Department records show that there were seven auto burglaries reported from residents of Killearn Estates between 6:53 am and 9:26 am on Friday, July 14, 2017. There was also an auto theft reported in the “2800 BLK CAVAN DR” area of Killearn. The report, provided below, also shows ten residential burglaries were reported […]
On Tuesday the Leon County Board of County Commissioners unanimously voted to provide paid parental leave to County employees. Both men and women County employees will be eligible to receive six weeks of paid leave to care for and bond with a newborn or newly-adopted child as an employee benefit. The staff analysis noted actual […]
Tallahassee Reports has learned that a Nancy Miller family member, John R. Buss, was hired in a temporary city position after she entered the 2010 race for city commission. Records also show Mr. Buss received a 33% pay raise weeks after Miller won the race and was subsequently hired in a permanent position that was […]
Adams Radio has announced the acquisition of Red Hills Broadcasting’s four stations in Tallahassee FL. The stations involved in the deal are Variety Hits “99.9 Hank-FM” WANK Lafayette, Country “103.1 The Wolf” WWOF Tallahassee, CHR “Hot 104.9” WHTF Havana, and AAA/Classic Rock “106.1 The Sound” WQTL Tallahassee. No terms have been announced. Red Hills Broadcasting […]
Almost immediately after Adam Smith, the political editor of the Tampa Bay Times, wrote on June 16, 2017 that Mayor Andrew Gillum was the Democratic party’s front-runner in the race for governor, this lofty assessment came crashing down. Days after Mr. Smith’s column, Peter Schorsch, an influential state political blogger, wrote that Smith’s “claim is made […]