Below are the news briefs from the Leon County School Board meeting that took place on September 27, 2022. __ The school board a report from Chief Jimmy Williams from LCS (Leon County Schools) Safety and Security. Williams reported to the school board an executive summary of the improvements made to schools across the district […]
Progressive Leader Calls Police Chief and Police Officers Murderers At last Wednesday’s city commission meeting – during the time allocated for public speakers – Delilah Pierre took the opportunity to address elected officials with a 3-mintue commentary which contained objectional language and comments referring to Police Chief Lawrence Revell and TPD officers as murderers. Pierre […]
Below are the news briefs from the Tallahassee City Commission meeting that took place on September 21, 2022. –The City Commission approved several consent items related to improvements at the Tallahassee International Airport. Other consent items included maintenance agreements for murals on the Bronough-Duval Overpass located over the Lake Anita Plaza and approving a resolution […]
By The News Service of Florida Since 2019, when Florida lawmakers created a voucher program called the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program, the “flow of public funds to private education” has dramatically increased, according to a new report by the nonprofit Florida Policy Institute and the Education Law Center. The report details an increase in money […]
Tallahassee City Commissioners are slated to address the issue of gun violence at their September 21 city commission meeting. The discussion will center around how to spend $1 million each year over the next five years to mitigate the troubling gun violence trends that have emerged since 2018. The chart below – created with information […]
On Wednesday, September 21, the Tallahassee City Commission voted 5-0 to approve an agreement with Burrell Aviation related to the finance, design, construction and management of an aviation-related aeronautical development located at the Tallahassee International Airport. The project will provide approximately $20,000,000 of private investment in the airport and will result in over $8,000,000 of […]
On Friday night FSU will travel to Louisville to play the Cardinals. The game will be at 730 on ESPN. The Cardinals are 1-1 on the season with a loss at Syracuse and a win at Central Florida. The last time FSU was 2-0 was in 2016 and travelled to Louisville they were pummeled 63-20 […]
The first quarter of the school year is not yet in the books and there have already been three arrests related to firearms on Leon County school property. The latest incident happened at Leon High School when the school’s resource deputy arrested a 17-year-old student last week for having a loaded gun. The Leon County […]
Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey took to Twitter to defend a meeting at his private residence related to how taxpayer funds dedicated to Tallahassee’s gun violence issue would be allocated for the next budget year. During recent budget workshops, city commissioners made the decision to allocate $1 million per year over the next fiver years to […]
A comparison of Tallahassee public safety statistics before and after the COVID pandemic reveal that violent crime has increased while arrests are down. In addition, data shows that traffic violations decreased during the COVID pandemic but has returned to pre-COVID levels. Is there a connection between decreased traffic enforcement and the increase in violent crime […]