CRA Moves Forward With Frenchtown Affordable Housing Initiative

CRA Moves Forward With Frenchtown Affordable Housing Initiative

On Thursday, Sept. 24, the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) conducted a board meeting to discuss implementing an affordable housing initiative in the Greater Frenchtown Southside (GFS) District. The CRA Board green-lit the plan earlier this year and are now focused on approving contractors to carry out the designs. The plan to construct affordable housing […]

New FSU Football Guidelines Include Masks for All Fans, Negative COVID Tests for Students

New FSU Football Guidelines Include Masks for All Fans, Negative COVID Tests for Students

Last week, Florida State University announced new guidelines for students and fans attending home football games after receiving backlash from the season opener against Georgia Tech where many fans were seen not wearing masks or properly social distancing. _____________________ COVID Zip Code Report for Week Ending September 26_________________ The new policies that will be enforced […]

GOP Chairman, Incoming Speaker Fight Minimum Wage Hike

GOP Chairman, Incoming Speaker Fight Minimum Wage Hike

By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Two state Republican leaders added their voices Monday in opposition to a proposed constitutional amendment that would gradually boost the minimum wage to $15 an hour in Florida. Republican Party of Florida Chairman Joe Gruters, a state senator from Sarasota, and incoming House Speaker Chris […]

Leon County Commissioners Vote to Maintain Phase 2 Following Phase 3 Executive Order

Leon County Commissioners Vote to Maintain Phase 2 Following Phase 3 Executive Order

Meeting Update At their Sept. 29 meeting, the Leon County Commissioners voted 5-2 to maintain Phase 2 of Leon County’s reopening plan and allow fall youth sports. Commissioners Mary Ann Lindley and Bill Proctor dissented. The vote comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an executive order pushing the state into Phase 3 last Friday. […]

Case Against LCS Principal David Solz Dismissed by Administrative Law Judge

Case Against LCS Principal David Solz Dismissed by Administrative Law Judge

In a 30 page order dated September 21st – based on an administrative hearing held July 27th and 28th – Florida Administrative Law Judge Gary Early recommended that a complaint filed against Leon County Schools Principal David Solz be “dismissed in its entirety.” After Leon County Schools Superintendent Rocky Hanna issued Mr. Solz a letter […]

COVID Zip Code Report for Week Ending September 26

COVID Zip Code Report for Week Ending September 26

The graph below shows the change in new COVID cases over a six week period for Leon County’s major zip codes. Observations: Zip code 32304 was the only zip code to report over 100 cases for the week. All ten zip codes show less cases than last week. Six of the ten zip codes show […]

Weekly Report on Leon County COVID Cases Shows Declining Trends

Weekly Report on Leon County COVID Cases Shows Declining Trends

TR’s weekly report (September 21-27th) on Leon County COVID cases, hospitalizations, and testing positivity rates shows declines in all three categories. TR’s September 20th weekly report can be reviewed here. The Leon County 7-day average (yellow-line) of reported COVID cases declined from 130 on September 20th to 78 cases on September 27th, a 40% drop. […]

CDC Releases Updated COVID-19 Fatality Rate Data

CDC Releases Updated COVID-19 Fatality Rate Data

The US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has released an update to their research on the fatality rate associated with COVID-19. The CDC first posted this data on May 20, 2020, with the understanding that the parameter values would be updated and augmented over time. This update, dated September 10th, is based on data received […]

FSU Preview – Florida State versus Miami

FSU Preview – Florida State versus Miami

Today at 7:30 on ABC Florida State will take on the Miami Hurricanes at Hard Rock Stadium. The Seminoles are 30-34 against the Hurricanes all time. The last time FSU got a win against the Hurricanes was in 2016, 20-19, when Demarcus Walker blocked potential game-tying PAT. Miami has since won 3 straight including a […]

DeSantis Lifts COVID-19 Business Restrictions

DeSantis Lifts COVID-19 Business Restrictions

By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis lifted state COVID-19 business restrictions Friday, including limits on the numbers of people who can dine in restaurants, while also prohibiting local governments from closing restaurants and collecting fines from people who don’t wear face masks in public. DeSantis said the move […]