TALLAHASSEE — BP settlement money is headed to new water and sewer lines for an industrial park, technical-education programs in two counties and expansion of the Port of Panama City. The Triumph Gulf Coast board of directors, set up by the Legislature to oversee settlement money from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, agreed Friday to dish […]
The Tallahassee City Commission voted last week to provide $575,000 in funding for affordable housing units in the Canopy development. Canopy is a new 500-acre mixed-use traditional neighborhood development. The $575,000 will come from the Affordable Housing Trust Fund and will be used to purchase and sell affordable units to eligible buyers on a revolving […]
A Tallahassee Reports analysis of the Tallahassee Democrat twitter feed over the last 24 hours (as of 6 pm on April 28th) shows the inclusion of three posts linked to racially divisive stories. At first glance, readers may think the incidents described in these stories took place in Tallahassee. However, despite the fact that the […]
Tallahassee Reports has determined that Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad leaked the city’s report of the football skybox ticket investigation to Tallahassee Democrat publisher, Skip Foster, before the city’s ethics officer was aware that the report was completed. In addition, Goad chose to provide the report to Foster and no other local media outlets. The […]
The Tallahassee Police Department has made an arrest in the beating of an apartment security guard on April 1st. Tallahassee Reports published a story about the incident last week. The TPD press release is below: Due to an intense and thorough investigation by the Violent Crimes Unit, the Tallahassee Police Department has made an arrest […]
At the monthly NEBA luncheon, Leon County Commissioner Kristin Dozier and City Commissioner Curtis Richardson found themselves on the opposite side of a question about the impact of Tallahassee’s corruption investigation on business recruitment. Michael Tentnowski, Director of Entrepreneurship at Innovation Park, was invited to speak to the business group about how the National High Magnetic […]
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 […]