The Board of Leon County Commissioners will hold a 2019 budget workshop and county staff will report that current tax rates will increase tax revenue by approximately $7.92 million. However, the staff will also report that expenses are projected to increase by $7.92 million. The revenue increase comes from an increase in property values ($6.2 […]
Last week, Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad presented the city’s investigation of the football ticket controversy to the independent ethic’s board. The report was conducted by Raoul Lavin, an assistant city manager. However, after reviewing the details of the report, there appears to be important questions that were left unanswered. First, why didn’t the report […]
When asked tough questions by Tallahassee Reports, history shows Mayor Andrew Gillum not only avoids answers, but also resorts to false attacks and threats of legal action. For example, when TR was the first to report about his affiliation with the People for American Way, Gillum sent an email threatening legal action. When TR was […]
On April 13th, the Tallahassee Police Department (TPD) posted on their facebook page a video of an assault on an apartment security guard. The video, shown below, shows three black men beating a white security guard. The video contains foul language. The facebook post came 12 days after the incident. The video was included in […]
Eight months after Tallahassee Reports published a story stating that Tallahassee city employees received free skybox football tickets from City Manager Rick Fernandez, the City of Tallahassee confirmed TR’s reporting. In August 2017, TR reported: In addition, city employees were given tickets by Fernandez to attend the games. One employee whose name was verified by […]
TALLAHASSEE — To Dianne Williams-Cox, a candidate for Tallahassee Commission Seat 5, life is like a baseball game and Tallahassee is like a pitcher caught in a slump. “When a pitcher gets in trouble on the mound, I don’t think you should pull the pitcher. I think you should pause, talk with the pitcher, and […]
TALLAHASSEE — Some have compared Tallahassee to Gotham, the fictional, corrupt, crime-riddled metropolis of comic book, movie and television fame. Bob Lotane, candidate for City Commission Seat 5, doesn’t buy into that characterization. Lotane, a public relations (PR) and communications expert said, “I’m not willing to stipulate Tallahassee is this horrible place, this Gotham, needing […]
At the last Tallahassee city commission meeting, Mayor Andrew Gillum ignored questions about his interactions with the Tallahassee Democrat over a controversial photo, and instead, publicly accused TR editor, Steve Stewart, of assaulting Gillum’s recently appointed chief of staff, Jamie Van Pelt. Specifically, TR was seeking answers to questions based on our previous report that […]
Gubernatorial candidate and Tallahassee Mayor Gillum, when approached in city hall today, refused to answer questions about a controversial negotiation that reportedly took place with officials at the Tallahassee Democrat. Instead, Gillum ran for cover. TR recently reported that Gillum and his supporters put pressure on the Tallahassee Democrat to alter a photo of Gillum […]
Tallahassee city commission candidate Lisa Brown said that the potential conflicts recently reported in a Tallahassee Reports article would be addressed at a Tallahassee Leon Federal Credit Union (TLFCU) board meeting scheduled for April 20th. TR reported that members of the TLFCU board included Dustin Daniels and Ben Pingree. Dustin Daniels, the former chief of […]