Saturday, July 5, 2025
At Tuesday’s Leon County Commission meeting, the audience cheered after commissioners voted in favor of preserving the Lake Hall Schoolhouse. Word to preserve the oldest African-American schoolhouse in the state of Florida, located off Thomasville Road, will finally begin. In a unanimous vote, the Leon County Commission voted to seek […]
The City of Tallahassee announced at Wednesday’s City Commission meeting that a new transit center will be created on the south side. The transit center will be located at the corner of Orange Avenue and Meridian Street.StarMetro began planning the transit center in 2013, when it made an appearance in […]
Tallahassee city commissioners voted 3-2 Wednesday to approve a developer’s purchase of the city’s lot at 526-528 West Tennessee St. near Chubby’s Chicken. Commissioners Jack Porter and Jeremy Matlow were in opposition to the motion. The developer, Peerless, decided to use the lot to develop student housing on the 0.26-acre […]
An advocate for the rights of Black tenants in public housing, Oliver Hill Sr. fights a new battle to get ADA-accommodations while he is being relocated. This comes after the Tallahassee Housing Authority [THA] received funding for redeveloping the Orange Avenue Apartments. Tifany Hill, Oliver Hill Sr.’s daughter and a […]
In a 4-1 vote, Tallahassee city commissioners approved a revised noise ordinance during Wednesday’s meeting. The next step is a public hearing. This decision would allow the Tallahassee Police Department to be the complainant in noise disturbances, allowing officers to intervene. The revised noise ordinance would also reduce the number […]
The Leon County commissioners voted Tuesday unanimously to seek state or federal reparation funds to preserve the Lake Hall Schoolhouse. The Lake Hall Schoolhouse is one of six of the oldest African American schoolhouses still standing in Florida. According to county documents, the school was built in the 1870s and […]
The Florida Senate is poised to consider a bill which removes the back rent that most tenants are required to pay before starting their court process once evicted. Senate Bill 582 removes back rent pay, which waives a tenant’s defenses. In the revised version of the bill, the removed section […]
The Florida Legislature has not introduced any bills related to protesting thus far in the 2022 session that got underway Jan. 11. This comes after the Tallahassee Police Department arrested 19 protesters near the state Capitol in the summer of 2020. The protesters had marched to fight police brutality and […]
Plant parenting is the act of nurturing plants from the comfort of one’s home. Most plants that a plant parent nurtures are considered house plants and are suitable for that specific environment. Plant parenting has become extremely trendy on social media and popular on the internet. Many people have begun […]
According to the Leon County Department of Health, 47 percent of the people who were being affected by COVID in May were Black. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also released a statement saying that Black people are three times more likely to contract coronavirus than white people. […]