Josepha “Jeppa” Ribaudo, B.S.R.N. lost her valiant fight against cancer on December 10, while in the excellent care of the medical team and staff at Capital Regional Medical Center as well as the Florida Cancer Specialist and Research Institute. It was also at Capital Regional Medical Center where she spent the last decades of her […]
The City of Tallahassee has released the employment agreement for Police Chief Lawrence Revell. See full agreement here. The agreement appears to be consistent with the agreement offered to the previous candidate Antonio Gilliam on retention and organizational control issues, The annual salary is set at $180,000 and states that the chief will serve “at […]
The City of Tallahassee has scheduled three events for the community to meet new Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell who will be sworn-in on January 6th, “We’re going to have real conversations about real issues. I hope you take the time to attend one of the upcoming meetings because opening the lines of communication is […]
By The News Service of Florida Florida had another 49 reported cases of hepatitis A last week, bringing the total this year to 3,327 as of Saturday, according to new figures from the state Department of Health. With the end of the year nearing, the number of hepatitis A cases in 2019 has dwarfed the […]
In a ceremony on the day after Christmas in front of the Tallahassee Police Department Headquarters , Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad announced that Major Lawrence Revell would be Tallahassee’s next police chief. The selection follows failed negotiations with Goad’s first selection Antonio Gilliam. Before the announcement, Goad – in a show of community support […]
The Leon County Division of Tourism (Visit Tallahassee) announced that tourism had a record-breaking $1 billion economic impact on the Leon county economy in fiscal year 2019. The $1 billion impact is an estimated 14% increase over the financial impact in 2018. The announcement was made during the annual marketing industry meeting recently held at Bannerman […]
Information provided by the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) shows that there were 57 incidents reported during the week of December 11th-17th. The data indicates there were 48 property incidents and 9 violent incidents. A regional breakdown of the incidents – based on TPD defined quadrants – shows that the Northwest quadrant of Tallahassee led the […]
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Voters will decide in November whether to gradually raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, after the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously approved a ballot proposal. The proposed constitutional amendment, spearheaded by Orlando attorney John Morgan, had received enough petition signatures to […]
UPDATE Last night Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey issued a response – through his twitter account – to the recent decision by Anontio Gillum to rescind his acceptance of the police chief job. I’m disappointed that Antonio Gilliam has decided not to come to Tallahassee as our next police chief. I’m proud of the offer we […]
By Keith Miles, FAMU Forward On Thursday, November 21, the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) notified Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University’s (FAMU) College of Education it now ranks number one across the state for elementary education programs in the Elementary/English as a Second Language (ESOL) endorsement and the reading endorsement among its peer groups. FAMU’s […]