The Village Square recently hosted a panel on race relations on the Village SquareCast podcast. The podcast episode, “Equality in Life: Justice and Law Enforcement,” was moderated by former Tallahassee Democrat publisher Skip Foster and featured nine panelists. The panelists were Rev. Dr. RB Holmes, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe, FBI […]
On October 1, 2019, Jeff Hendry filed to run for the Leon County Commission Group One At-Large seat. Hendry is joined in the race by Melissa Villar, Kelly Otte, Scott Flowers, Danielle Irwin, Robin Colson, and Carolyn Cummings. Incumbent Mary Ann Lindley is retiring. Hendry serves as the Director for the John Scott Dailey Florida […]
Amid a national controversy over the COVID drug hydroxychloroquine, the Tallahassee Democrat removed reference to the drug from a story that originally highlighted the use of Remdesivir along with hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for a COVID patient at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. Officials at the Tallahassee Democrat have not responded to TR’s request for a comment. […]
August 6th The latest information shows 4,643 positive coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Leon County since reporting began. This means there were 106 new cases reported since yesterday’s update. There have been 23 deaths reported in Leon County. The report indicates there have been a cumulative total of 138 hospitalizations in Leon County. As […]
Provided below are two charts addressing the daily number of COVID cases reported in Leon County and the daily testing positivity rate. Based on information provided by Leon County government, both of these metrics are determining factors in evaluating how the virus is spreading in the community and a factor in when the mask mandate […]
On August 4th, Tallahassee Police Chief Revell issued a statement related to the results of a recent internal investigation stemming from a social media post made by TPD Sgt. Gavin Larremore. Chief Revell’s statement: “Today marked the conclusion of a thorough Internal Affairs investigation into a questionable social media post made by a member of […]
St. John Episcopal Church, who hired Childers Construction as the lead contractor for the almost-completed “For All the Saints” capital campaign renovations, sent out a letter on July 30 addressing the recent controversy related to Sam Childers. Rev. David C. Killeen wrote that after hearing about the controversy, St. John’s assembled a group of church […]
Tallahassee Reports reached out to officials at Capital Regional Medical Center (CRMC) and Tallahassee Memorial Hospital (TMH) seeking the answers to two questions: what are treatments for COVID patients, and what are the most prevalent preexisting conditions for COVID patients under 50? Trey Blake, MD, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at CRMC provided information on CRMC’s […]
Florida State University President John Thrasher, who recently took action against an FSU vendor who was accused of being racially insensitive, faced similar allegations in 2000. It was revealed last week that Sam Childers, a principal with Childers Construction, was accused of violating “FSU’s core values” when a picture recently surfaced of him dressed up […]
After overcoming a number of hurdles, Tallahassee Classical School is preparing to open its doors for its inaugural class this fall. The tuition-free charter school will provide students with a classical liberal arts education. Tallahassee Classical School has been in creation for years. It was initially supposed to open last school year, but it was […]