A Night With Marcus Roberts
There are a number of world-class musicians who live and work in Tallahassee. Pam Laws, Marcus Roberts, Scotty Barnhardt, and Marvin Goldstein…
Opinion
Our Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)
Public money for private greed. This is the true mission of the Community Redevelopment Agency or CRA. The result is a massive…
General Lafayette Would Be Proud
His name was “Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Ives Gilbert Du Mottier, Marquis de Lafayette.” He was a wealthy French nobleman and was responsible…
Gillum Fails To Lead On Ethics
The City Commission vote against the Ethics Advisory Panel (EAP) recommendation for an appointed Ethics Officer was bad enough. But to think…
The TAPP Program Has A Bad Smell
When we learned that the City Manager of Tallahassee awarded a contract to the highest bidder we started asking questions. What we…
Tightening the Belt: What to Watch for in Local and National Spending
Since the “Great Recession,” many local, state, and national governments have struggled to install a sustainable budget. No matter the level of…
ObamaCore? Education Reform Hits a Snag
Wherever you stand on the Common Core, an attempt to provide a set of nationwide education standards, it can’t be good news…
Stop The Red Light Camera Program
The City of Tallahassee began a Red Light Camera Safety Program on July 1, 2010. Currently, there are 19 red light safety…
What will it take?
How can a relatively small town government have so many things wrong that a start-up newspaper can grow based almost entirely on…
Why Tallahassee Reports?
The transformation of the media industry over the last thirty years has presented severe economic challenges to the newspaper industry. The newspaper…
On the Brew Pub Vote, Andrew Gillum Made A Good Point
Based on pre-vote intel, it was pretty clear that the City Commission was going to vote to move forward with the million…
A Test For Crony Capitalism
One of the most popular phrases used by politicians to justify spending your money is “public-private partnership.” The term is most often…