A recent draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal would give U.S. pharmaceutical firms unprecedented protections against competition from cheaper generic drugs, possibly transcending the patent protections in U.S. law. POLITICO has obtained a draft copy of TPP’s intellectual property chapter as it stood on May 11, at the start of the latest negotiating round […]
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN Updated June 30, 2015 7:40 p.m. ET Geopolitics can be more important than economics. Just look at Greece. On purely economic grounds, Greece should never have been admitted to the European Union in 1981 and might have been ejected from the eurozone months ago. But what many European policy makers know—even […]
On June 25, 2015, Silver Airways flight 134 took off from Fort Lauderdale with 34 people on board headed to Tallahassee, Florida. However, during the flight, somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico, a passenger left his seat and headed for the row of seats where the exit door is located. He then reached over passenegers […]
If you would like to ask a City Commissioner a question about the proposed property tax increase, you will not have to travel downtown. Tallahassee Reports, with the help of the Killearn Country Club, is hosting a Town Hall meeting to address the proposed 27% increase in property taxes. Commissioners Scott Maddox, Nancy Miller, Curtis […]
North Florida Christian is in the middle of a significant expansion in their athletic facilities. While the building will be called the athletic center, the two-story addition located on the north side of the current football stadium will have multi-purposes. NFC, with a campus located off of North Merdian Road, is a class 2A school […]
On June 16, 2015 Anita Favors Thompson released the City Manager’s budget for 2016. The proposed general fund budget calls for a $10.8 million property tax increase. In an effort to determine why the $10.8 million was needed and where it would be spent, we met with Heath Beach of the City’s Budget Office. Here […]
“Diversionary War Theory” states that leaders who are threatened by domestic turmoil may initiate an international conflict in order to shift the nation’s attention away from internal troubles. Alternatively, “Domestic Diversionary War Theory” has the same objective by pitting group against group. Domestic diversionary war plays on fear and envy in group politics. An additional […]
A closer look at the numbers behind the proposed 27% property tax increase by City Manager Anita Favors Thompson reveals that the increase is not all about public safety. The City’s public relations apparatus has promoted the increase as a response to public safety needs. The title of the City Manager’s press release was “City […]
Last week Tallahassee Reports wrote about how the Tallahassee Democrat categorized one of their news stories about the Leon County School Board as “Gossip.” Now, after another school board story on June 19th by the same writer, people are questioning the decision of the Tallahassee Democrat to change the original online headline by using the […]
Freedom 93 FM, a Tallahassee local talk radio station, is changing their line-up. The station, which hit the airwaves a couple of years ago, was faced competing with talk radio veterans like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Their response was a line-up with big names of their own. Herman Cain anchored 9-12, while […]