State Attorney Jack Campbell, Police Chief Steve Outlaw, and Sheriff Walt McNeil spoke on a panel at the Network of Entrepreneurs and Business Advocates (NEBA) meeting on November 19th. They discussed Tallahassee’s crime rate, the Syringe Exchange Program, marijuana reform, and homelessness. Campbell, Outlaw, and McNeil opened the meeting by discussing how they are addressing […]
Lisa Brown stood before the African Development Educators Program in Nairobi earlier this year as their very first woman graduation speaker. As she looked over the crowd of people who came from all over the continent to learn how to solve development issues like housing, hunger, transportation, education and women’s issues, she thought about home. […]
On June 12th Police Chief Michael DeLeo notified Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad he planned to resign effective July 6. Goad announced that Major Steve Outlaw, a 32 year veteran of TPD, will serve as Interim Chief and a nationwide search will begin immediately to permanently fill the position. In his resignation letter to the […]
By Dara Kam, The News Service of Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis shredded each other Sunday night during a nationally televised debate, as the gubernatorial candidates appeared in their first face-to-face showdown little more than two weeks before the Nov. 6 general election. The hour-long CNN debate in Tampa, hosted by Jake […]
The major union for police officers, the Florida Police Benevolent Association (PBA), announced they are endorsing Republican Ron DeSantis for governor. The endorsement comes four years after the Florida PBA endorsed the Democratic nominee for governor, Charlie Crist. The endorsement also comes amid harsh criticism from DeSantis on how current Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum has […]
Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is ignoring it. The state-wide media will not ask questions about it. But Mayor Gillum’s former chief of staff, Dustin Daniels, is campaigning on it. What is it? It is Tallahassee’s increase in murders while Andrew Gillum was the mayor of Tallahassee. On a campaign mailer, Dustin Daniels, who is running […]
Earlier this month, Lisa Brown, one of four candidates for City Commission Seat 3, sat down with Steve Stewart for an interview on “Above the Fold,” a local news program on RealTalk 93.3FM. During the interview Brown discussed priorities and specific ideas for meeting challenges facing Tallahassee. Brown is a Tallahassee native, who lived and […]
TALLAHASSEE — Some have compared Tallahassee to Gotham, the fictional, corrupt, crime-riddled metropolis of comic book, movie and television fame. Bob Lotane, candidate for City Commission Seat 5, doesn’t buy into that characterization. Lotane, a public relations (PR) and communications expert said, “I’m not willing to stipulate Tallahassee is this horrible place, this Gotham, needing […]
It is one thing when a Republican leader calls for a Democratic mayor to resign, but quite another when a long-time Democrat party leader asks a Democratic mayor to resign. And that is what happened here in Tallahassee after more questionable activities at city hall surfaced yesterday. Jon Ausman, who chaired the Leon Democrat Executive […]
It wasn’t a political foe or a journalist that compared Andrew Gillum’s email troubles with Hillary Clinton’s famous problems – it was Andrew Gillum. When discussing his well documented email software problems at the Capital Tiger Bay luncheon today, Mayor Andrew Gillum stated: “I think people have been fooled once by a fake email issue, […]