Troubling Economic Trend: Tallahassee Falls in Milken Institute Rankings

Troubling Economic Trend: Tallahassee Falls in Milken Institute Rankings

The Milken Institute’s annual Best-Performing Cities index for 2016 shows that Tallahassee continues to occupy the bottom 50 of the 200 largest cities in the United States when it comes to economic performance. The Best-Performing Cities index, compiled since 1999, uses a comprehensive, fact-based set of criteria to rank 200 large and 201 small metros […]

Stewart’s Blog: Byron Dobson Refuses to Address Local Race Issues

Stewart’s Blog: Byron Dobson Refuses to Address Local Race Issues

The recent article by Tallahassee Democrat writer Byron Dobson, “Race: An issue too wide to get our arms around”,  helped me understand why we live in one of the most racially segregated cities in America and why it may never change. Mr. Dobson’s article was based on his coverage of a recent Village Square event entitled “Created […]

Cure Violence Programs Shutdown In Chicago

Cure Violence Programs Shutdown In Chicago

Associated Press is reporting that a number of Cure Violence supported programs in Chicago have been shutdown. Cure Violence was in Tallahassee last week holding meetings to promote an community based approach that reduces gun violence. The program costs approximately $350,000 a year, with $75,000 going to Cure Violence. The problems detailed in the AP report […]

National Report Hits Delegation in Boulder with a Dose of Reality

National Report Hits Delegation in Boulder with a Dose of Reality

On Sunday we heard that sixty of Tallahassee’s political, educational and business elites were headed to Boulder, Colorado to seek new ideas for our local economy. Monday morning we read that these leaders were wandering Pearl Street and peering into the windows of locally owned coffee shops, breweries and stores. And then a report by two Harvard […]

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 business, fueled by a near monopoly over local advertising for so long, has had to make drastic changes to the way they operate. Without much, if any competition in reporting local news, many […]

Red Light Cameras Increase Total Crashes, Decrease Right Angle Crashes

Red Light Cameras Increase Total Crashes, Decrease Right Angle Crashes

Based on operational data collected by the City of Tallahassee, listed in the table below, the use of red light cameras has resulted in more crashes at red light camera intersections three years after the implementation than three years before. Total crashes increased from 377 before implementation to 509 after implementation. More specifically, rear-end crashes […]

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