LOCAL NEWS TR’s City Commission meeting briefs highlight COCA appointment, affordable housing funding, sports complex zoning, renaming of streets, and sales of city real estate. The Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority recently announced the return of the Downtown GetDowns in fall 2024. Traffic accident at the intersection of Thomasville and Maclay Road backs up traffic on […]
The Tallahassee Downtown Improvement Authority recently announced the return of the Downtown GetDowns in fall 2024. Beginning in the late 1990s, the Downtown GetDowns were a key part of the annual event calendar in downtown for over 20 years and attracted thousands of attendees from across the community. The events were canceled following the 2018 […]
Below are the Tallahassee City Commission news briefs from the August 21, 2024, meeting. Appointments Item 10.01: The City Commission voted 5-0 to confirm Mayor Dailey’s recommendation of reappointment for Katherine Maiorana for Seat 5, and Aynalem Markos for Seat 6, on the Council on Culture & Arts (COCA). COCA serves as the designated local […]
LOCAL NEWS The vendor for most of Florida’s supervisor of elections websites says a logging error was responsible for the outages that occurred on Election Night. Several local websites were down, causing problems for candidates and the public eagerly awaiting results. The future of the Capital City’s art district could be in the hands of […]
LOCAL NEWS As of August 18, 2024, the year-to-date numbers indicate that the total number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department are down 6.5% when compared to the same period in 2023. Get the details. After over a year of back-and-forth, the City of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Professional Firefighters union have […]
By The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Port Canaveral leaders acquiesced Wednesday to demands by the state and reversed plans for a new cruise terminal that could have been an impediment to future needs of the space industry. The Port Canaveral Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to end plans set in May for redesignating […]
The US government reduced the estimated number of annual jobs added by 818,000 yesterday. The new figure, still preliminary, suggests 2.1 million jobs were added from April 2023 to March 2024, a 28% revision from the 2.9 million previously reported. Annual revisions have recently averaged about 173,000 jobs added or subtracted and come as the Bureau of […]
As of August 18, 2024, the year-to-date numbers indicate that the total number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department are down 6.5% when compared to the same period in 2023. TR’s last report indicated the total number of crime incidents was down 5.8% year-to-date (YTD). The numbers show that property crime incidents are down […]
LOCAL NEWS City Commissioner Jack Porter won a second term on the Tallahassee city commission winning a majority of votes cast in Tuesday’s primary election and avoiding a November runoff. Leon County School Board member Laurie Cox held off challenger Jeremy Rogers to win a non-partisan election that essentially became a battle between a Republican […]
By The News Service of Florida Democratic-endorsed school board candidates fared somewhat better Tuesday than candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. In July, DeSantis pitched an initial list of 23 endorsements for 2024 races. Of those candidates, six won primaries Tuesday, 11 lost and six others moved on to runoffs that will be decided in […]