Tallahassee Reports has learned that City Manager Rick Fernandez counted the salary from a position that had not been filled since 2014 as savings to justify the raises he gave to a select group of executive managers. Last week, City Manager Rick Fernandez went before City Commissioners to explain the 5-digit raises that resulted in […]
The latest numbers for the Tallahassee International Airport (TIA) show passenger traffic increased modestly in June this year when compared to June traffic in 2015. The numbers for June 2016 show a .8% increase in passenger traffic. The number of passengers increased from 59,675 during last June to 60,158 this year. The Passenger Traffic Report above […]
By Karen Murphy It’s Friday night, a local band is playing some fun, classic rock tunes. Couples are dancing under the stars or sitting back having a beer as kids play in the sand pit. It’s not a night at the beach, though. It’s a night in Killearn Lakes at Hurricane Grill & Wings. General […]
Back in January when the City Commission voted 3-2 to extend the bar hours from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. it appears no one checked with the higher education community. Well, no need to call them now. Ahead of the City Commission’s scheduled reconsideration of the vote tomorrow, leaders at FSU, FAMU, and TCC, have […]
Tallahassee Reports, a locally owned newspaper with a mission of providing investigative reporting and community news, announced they are expanding their monthly print addition to two times a month and are also adding an award winning reporter. Kathy Stewart, TR’s publisher, said “the time is right for expansion. Our original investigative reporting and community news […]
Budget Hawks, one of the groups working to overturn the 13% property tax increase adopted by the CIty of Tallahassee last year, issued a press release urging city commissioners to grant a request from the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce to eliminate the city business tax. Commercial real estate developer and founding Budget Hawk Russell Price […]
The State of Florida employment report for May shows that Leon County lost 722 jobs. This follows a loss of 1,221 jobs in April. Despite these losses, the unemployment continues to fall. The rate has declined from 4.3% in March to 4.0% in May. This is due to a decrease in the number of people […]
On May 5th the Leon County Tourist Development Council (TDC) reviewed the details of a report provided by Downs and St. Germaine Research that showed a 1.1% increase in visitors from January through March of 2016 when compared to the same time period one year ago. The research group completed 926 surveys through the internet […]
Sales of existing single-family homes increased in April when compared to sales in April one year ago. There were 291 single-family home resales in April. That is a 13.6% increase over the 256 homes sold in April, 2015. The latest numbers contributed to an increase in the annual rate of resales which came in at […]
The latest numbers for the Tallahassee International Airport (TIA) show passenger traffic declined in March of this year when compared to March’s traffic in 2015. The numbers for March 2016 show a 7.4% decrease in passenger traffic. The number of passengers decreased from 63,487 during last March to 58,785 this year. These number follow a modest increase […]