By Jordan Kirkland, The Capitolist With less than three weeks until the election, the battle to stop Ballot Amendment 2 continued on Tuesday, with a new ad pointing to the dangers of a $15 minimum wage being released by Save Florida Jobs. The 18-second ad released by the political committee cuts straight to the ballot […]
The results of a Tallahassee Bar Association (TBA) poll shows that judicial candidate Amanda Wall received the highest percentage of qualified responses when compared to her competitors. The poll asks members of the TBA to rate the candidates in two categories – legal ability and temperament. Wall received a 96% qualified rating for legal ability […]
By Christine Sexton, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House speaker on Tuesday called into question the state’s COVID-19 death toll, warning that it was based on compromised data and used a methodology that inflated death rates. Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes, sent a memo Tuesday to all House members announcing the […]
Sales of existing single-family homes in Leon county were up 10.6% when compared to numbers sold in the same month one year ago. There were 284 single-family home resales in September 2019 and 314 resales in September 2020. Last month there were 307 existing single-family homes sold. The average sales price in August 2020 increased […]
The graph below shows the change in new COVID cases over a eight week period for Leon County’s major zip codes. Observations: Zip code 32304 reported the most cases (70) last week. Three zip codes (32301, 32303, 32304) reported over 50 cases last week. Seven zip codes reported more cases than last week. Three zip […]
TR’s weekly report (October 5-October 11) on Leon County COVID cases, hospitalizations, and testing positivity rates are detailed below. TR’s October 4th weekly report can be reviewed here. The Leon County 7-day average (yellow-line) of reported COVID cases moved from 51 cases on October 4th to 58 cases on October 11th, a 13.7% increase. The Leon […]
The graph below shows the change in new COVID cases over a seven week period for Leon County’s major zip codes. Observations: Only one zip code (32304) reported over 50 (54) cases last week. All ten zip codes show less cases than last week. Five zip codes reported a decline of least 30% when compared […]
TR’s weekly report (September 28-October 4) on Leon County COVID cases, hospitalizations, and testing positivity rates shows declines in all three categories. TR’s September 27th weekly report can be reviewed here. The Leon County 7-day average (yellow-line) of reported COVID cases declined from 78 cases on September 27th to 51 cases on October 4th, a 35% […]
Matt Dixon, a reporter for Politico-Florida, in an article addressing the Trump-Biden debate, wrote that Trump gave a “shoutout” to a far-right hate group despite evidence to the contrary. Dixon, who has been a reporter with POLITICO – Florida for over six years, chose the word “shoutout” to characterize statements made by Trump related to […]
The graph below shows the change in new COVID cases over a six week period for Leon County’s major zip codes. Observations: Zip code 32304 was the only zip code to report over 100 cases for the week. All ten zip codes show less cases than last week. Six of the ten zip codes show […]