The latest employment data shows that the number of people employed in Leon County has declined for the 7th month in a row and has reached a 21-month low. Not since August 2013, has the number of people employed in Leon County been below 140,000. The May 2015 number stands at 139,550. The losses began […]
Today, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson released her proposed budget for 2015-16. In a city press release entitled “City Manager Releases Proposed Public Safety Budget”, Ms. Favors recommends hiring 18 police officers and 16 fireman.Ms. Favors also proposes a $10.8 million property tax increase. The property tax rate would increase by 27% from 3.7 mills […]
On June 19, 2014, Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeff Burlew wrote an article entitled “School employee becomes whistle-blower, former secretary files lawsuit.” Tallahassee Reports has recently learned that the Tallahassee Democrat labeled part of the article as gossip, gossip that almost one year later has no independent factual basis. In the article, Burlew reported accusations from […]
Single-Family homes sales in Leon county continued to increase in the month of May as did average sale prices. For the month of May, 273 single-family homes were sold in Leon County for an average price of $244,880. Both numbers are 12-month highs. Since 2010, when single-family home sales reached a 12-month low of 1,499, […]
In America, class resentments center on money. ‘Yes, I am ‘nouveau riche,’ but then, it’s the ‘riche’ that counts, now isn’t it?” So declared Jim Williams in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. And in the American context, that is broadly true: There are at least two senses of the word “class,” and […]
If you want to know the meaning of success in Tallahassee there is a name that should know.That name is Shaw, Shaw Fromm. As as in Shaw’s Athletics in Market Square. Shaw’s has been selling athletic shoes for over 30 years. You may ask yourself: How is that possible? With the economy the way it […]
The City of Tallahassee released construction data for May 2015. The numbers show that single-family construction continues to slow. The chart below shows that the 12 month total number of permits fell for the second month in a row. The last time this happened was in May and June of 2014. Since April 2015 the […]
It appears the City of Tallahassee’s lack of attention to public safety over the last nine years has not been limited to funding for more police officers. During a recent City budget workshop, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson took time to tell City Commissioners that the City’s Police Department building, located on Seventh Avenue, is […]
Health insurers are asking federal and state regulators to sign off on double-digit rate hikes for hundreds of Obamacare plans next year, increases that are being driven by skyrocketing drug costs and better data on how healthy or sick their customers are. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/insurers-seek-double-digit-obamacare-hikes-118524.html#ixzz3bue0I5t6
They use words like “historic” and “charismatic,” phrases like “great potential” and “million-dollar smile.” They notice audience members moved to tears by an American-dream-come-true success story. When they look at the cold, hard political math, they get uneasy. An incipient sense of anxiety is tugging at some Democrats — a feeling tersely captured in four […]