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...
View ArticleMid-year Data Shows 15% Increase in Violent Crime for Leon County in 2015
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...
View ArticleStewart’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...
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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...
View ArticleTallahassee Amtrak Gets Support from Unlikely Group….Republicans
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...
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Employment Gains Differ Since Recession, Tallahassee recovers 30% of jobs...
One of the many ways to evaluate the recovery of any recession is to look at the length of time it takes to reach pre-recession employment levels. In the chart to the right, the Pew Research Center,...
View ArticleRed 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
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National Report Rates Tallahassee as Third Worst Labor Market in US
Tallahassee Reports has published a number of articles reporting on the performance of the local economy. There are the monthly employment reports, with the most recent showing a two-month loss of...
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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...
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