Outage Update Based on data from utility provider websites as of 1:00 pm, Leon County has approximately 65,000 customers without power. That number is down form approximately 78,000 reported this morning. The report shows 51,000 without power in the City of Tallahassee service area and approximately 14,000 in the Talquin service area. Governor Scott Frustrated […]
City Commission candidate Steven Hougland, who is running against City Commissioner Curtis Richardson, told Tallahassee Reports that the Tallahassee Democrat required him to delete a part of his My View even after he provided factual documentation that supported his position on property taxes. An email from a Tallahassee Democrat employee supports his claim. Property taxes […]
TALLAHASSEE — When Bert Hartsfield decided not to run for a seventh term as Leon County property appraiser, four candidates stepped up to fill his seat. Three are battling to win August’s Democrat primary. The winner will then face local real estate appraiser Greg Lane (NPA), in the general election. The Democrat candidates include former […]
TR has profiled a number of local races and has published original reports about issues that we deemed to be important to our community. You can review all the reports through the links below. Final Arguments in State Attorney Race TALLAHASSEE — As the end of the long primary campaign season comes to an end, […]
At the New York Times you get banned from commenting if you threaten violence. Here in Tallahassee, it appears a “business decision” can get you banned from Tallahassee.com If you tuned into 100.7 WFLA this morning you heard Preston Scott, the host of the Morning Show with Preston Scott, tell his audience that the publisher […]
TALLAHASSEE — Three out of the four candidates for City Commission Seat 1 see this race as a competition between the common man and a career politician. They paint a picture of the incumbent, Scott Maddox, as being out of touch, arrogant, and part of the crony culture they see controlling a city commission lacking […]
On Tuesday August 23rd, the Tallahassee Quarterback club will kick off it’s 67th season with FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher at the University Center Club. Tickets are still available and can be purchased online. The club has lined up a season of entertaining speakers that include former Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer, former FSU great […]
Last week Kevin Record resigned as the tennis coach and journalism teacher at Leon High School to take a position as Director of Tennis at his alma mater, Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. After 21 years, the Record era in Tallahassee comes to an end. Of the 130 or so comments posted on his Facebook […]
Recently, internal documents from the Open Society non-profit headed by billionaire George Soros have been released to the public by anonymous hackers and provided in a searchable database. TR’s search of the documents reveal, that in May of this year the Open Society group applauded Mayor Andrew Gillum’s decision to welcome Syrian refugees to the […]
Six months into 2016, the City of Tallahassee released crime statistics that show violent crime decreased by 13.4% when compared to the first six months of 2015, while property crime increased. In year over year comparisons of violent crime incidents for the first six months, murders decreased from 8 to 4, rapes decreased from 119 […]