The Tallahassee Democrat has a major story in their Sunday edition on the City’s proposed 2015-16 budget, which includes a 27% increase in property taxes. However, when it comes to reporting the amount in the budget for non-public safety pay raises for city employees, the Tallahassee Democrat publishes an incorrect number. Byron Dobson, the Tallahassee […]
North Florida Christian is in the middle of a significant expansion in their athletic facilities. While the building will be called the athletic center, the two-story addition located on the north side of the current football stadium will have multi-purposes. NFC, with a campus located off of North Merdian Road, is a class 2A school […]
Freedom 93 FM, a Tallahassee local talk radio station, is changing their line-up. The station, which hit the airwaves a couple of years ago, was faced competing with talk radio veterans like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Their response was a line-up with big names of their own. Herman Cain anchored 9-12, while […]
Today, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson released her proposed budget for 2015-16. In a city press release entitled “City Manager Releases Proposed Public Safety Budget”, Ms. Favors recommends hiring 18 police officers and 16 fireman.Ms. Favors also proposes a $10.8 million property tax increase. The property tax rate would increase by 27% from 3.7 mills […]
On June 19, 2014, Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeff Burlew wrote an article entitled “School employee becomes whistle-blower, former secretary files lawsuit.” Tallahassee Reports has recently learned that the Tallahassee Democrat labeled part of the article as gossip, gossip that almost one year later has no independent factual basis. In the article, Burlew reported accusations from […]
It appears the City of Tallahassee’s lack of attention to public safety over the last nine years has not been limited to funding for more police officers. During a recent City budget workshop, City Manager Anita Favors Thompson took time to tell City Commissioners that the City’s Police Department building, located on Seventh Avenue, is […]
Best selling writer Peter Schweizer, who’s most recent work – Clinton Cash – is currently #3 on the New York Times Best selling list, has been ignored by the local media. Other than a visit on WFLA’s Morning Show with Preston Scott, Schweizer has not scored any local coverage in the Tallahassee Democrat, on WFSU, […]
The latest FDLE report on crime in the state of Florida found that Leon County was ranked number one in crimes per 100,000 residents for 2014. Tallahassee Reports investigated the numbers and found that incidents in the City of Tallahassee was the cause for the number one ranking. Without the city numbers, the county jurisdiction […]
After 25 years Old Town Cafe, located off of Timberlane Road in Market Square, is under new management. Ashley Webb assumed ownership on May 1, 2015 from Marcia Harrison who owned and operated the business since its opening in 1990. Ms. Harrison is heading south to spend more time with her family. The change in […]
While crime in Florida was at a 44-year low in 2014, the crime rate in Leon County increased from 4,720 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2013 to 5,049 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2014. With this increase, Leon County leads Florida in crime rate. The statewide crime rate continued a downward trend and ended 2014 […]