Below are the news briefs from the Leon County School Board meeting that took place on March 30, 2023.__ The Board approved a Superintendent recommendation to adopt a change order for Ferrara Consultants and Space Age Roof Tech, LLC. Sealey Elementary School, Roof Replacement Project. The contract amount will be increased by $145,788.35. The original […]
On April 3rd, the Leon County Children’s Services Council (CSC) Finance and Budget Committee held a meeting and discussed the staffing allocations for the 2022-2023 fiscal year. Committee member Paul Mitchell noted that at the March 23rd meeting the CSC Governing Council granted one full time position requested by the Executive Director and asked the […]
Two Florida Democratic leaders – Democrat party chair Nikki Fried and Senator Lauren Book – were arrested Monday with a group of protesters outside city hall. The group was advocating for abortion access due to the proposed six-week ban on abortion that was passed in the Senate earlier in the day. The arrests came after […]
LOCAL NEWS Two Florida Democratic leaders were arrested Monday with a group of protesters outside city hall. The group was advocating for abortion access after a proposed six-week ban passed in the Senate earlier in the day. The Daily Briefs sponsored by: On March 27th, the non-profit organization City Walk Urban Mission filed a complaint against the […]
On March 27th, the non-profit organization City Walk Urban Mission filed a complaint against the City of Tallahassee and the Tallahassee Fire Department’s Fire Marshal to prevent them from enforcing an order to vacate residents from the homeless shelter due to fire code violations. City Walk was first notified of the fire code violation in […]
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a measure that will allow Floridians to carry guns without concealed-weapons licenses. The Republican-controlled Senate gave final approval to the measure (HB 543) on Thursday, about a week after the House passed it. The bill will do away with a decades-old licensing process, which has included requiring that people […]
According the Tallahassee Police Department, on March 31 the TPD responded to the track fields of Lincoln High School after receiving information that a student was in possession of a gun. At the time of this incident, school was dismissed. The student, a 16-year-old male, was safely detained without incident. The investigation revealed the student returned […]
LOCAL NEWS In a press release, Tallahassee Classical announced that the charter school has retained Alan Lawson, a former Florida Supreme Court Justice to address the false narrative created around a story by the Tallahassee Democrat. See the full statement here. The Daily Briefs sponsored by: The Children’s Services Council of Leon County (CSC) will hold a […]
In a press release, Tallahassee Classical announced that the charter school has retained Alan Lawson, a former Florida Supreme Court Justice to address the false narrative created around a story by the Tallahassee Democrat. The full statement is provided below. The Tallahassee Democrat story – published on March 23 – claimed that the “school principal […]
LOCAL NEWS Former Tallahassee Classical principal Hope Carrasquilla, who resigned from leadership at the school on March 20, told The Epoch Times that the reporting by the Tallahassee Democrat related to her relationship with the school is false. The Daily Briefs sponsored by: Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic (TOC) recently welcomed pain management specialist Dr. Andrew Dec, D.O, M.Sc. […]