LOCAL NEWS Tallahassee City Commission candidates Jack Porter and Dot Inman-Johnson are proposing $60,000 starting salaries for firefighters, which – if implemented – would result in a major increase in the fire service fund budget and an increase in the fire service fee. A Leon County Detention Facility deputy has been terminated after being accused […]
Tallahassee City Commission candidates Jack Porter and Dot Inman-Johnson are proposing $60,000 starting salaries for firefighters, which – if implemented – would result in a major increase in the fire service fund budget and a possible increase in the fire service fee. All Tallahassee residents pay a fire service fee via the City of Tallahassee […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — More than three months after a computer system serving as a backbone of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice was hacked, many contractors providing services to at-risk and troubled youths remain unable to access the network. Efforts to bring the network back online were still […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida A&M University President Larry Robinson announced Friday he will step down after nearly seven years leading the state’s only historically Black public university and plans to return to the faculty. In a letter addressed to “FAMUly and Friends” that was posted online, Robinson did […]
Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt during a campaign rally Saturday. The 20-year-old suspect was killed by a Secret Service sniper after a bullet pierced the upper part of Trump’s right ear. The attack killed one rally attendee, 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, and left two others critically injured. Trump was roughly six-and-a-half minutes into his speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, when […]
LOCAL NEWS Halfway through 2024, the number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department remain down when compared to 2023. However, the numbers show a significant increase in property crime incidents in June. J. Brent Pichard: “When an agency of government distinguishes itself as a tried, true and tested “servant of the people,” […]
Halfway through 2024, the number of crime incidents reported by the Tallahassee Police Department remain down when compared to 2023. However, the numbers show a significant increase in property crime incidents in June. Last month TR reported that during the four days after the May 10 storm – when three tornadoes moved through Tallahassee – […]
By J. Brent Pichard For an engaged citizenry, healthy skepticism about government in general is prudent. Why? Because left to its own devices and unchallenged by vigorous public scrutiny, government at all levels will grow and eventually confiscate – one by one – the wealth and liberties of a complacent people. However, when an agency […]
The global population is set to peak at 10.3 billion and begin declining by 2084, roughly two decades earlier than estimates from two years ago, according to the United Nations biennial population report. Analysts attribute the earlier peak to a broad decline in fertility rates, the number of children a woman will birth on average. Worldwide, that […]
LOCAL NEWS Jon Ausman: It may be time that Republican County Chair Evan Power publicly declare Leon County Democratic Chair Ryan Ray as their Most Valuable Republican Secret Agent. The Leon County Commission is changing its plan for extending Dempsey Mayo Road across Miccosukee Road into the Welaunee development. The move comes amid concerns from […]