It appears the move by local leaders to convince Amtrak to restore train service along the Gulf Coast with a stop in Tallahassee may be getting help from an unlikely group – Republicans. While Republicans have traditionally criticized federal subsidies to Amtrak, recently local and state Republican leaders along the Gulf Coast have promoted a […]
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 […]
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 […]
According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, mid-year data for 2015 shows that crime increased in Leon County when compared to the same time period during 2014. Leon county led the state in per capita crime in 2014. See our previous report here. In contrast to the Leon County trend, the data shows that […]