Florida’s housing crisis meets Sarasota’s anti-growth reality
Sarasota County is quickly becoming one of the most interesting political laboratories in Florida. […]
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Tallahassee’s $8,400 door: A portal to a broken bureaucracy
Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeff Burlew has done important and aggressive reporting on the city’s troubled lead-paint grant program, and without that reporting the public likely still would know very little about what appears to be a significant breakdown involving a federally funded public-health initiative. […]
When the “B” in Busy Bee actually stands for “bureaucracy”
North Floridians know Busy Bee.
Clean bathrooms. Killer caramel popcorn. Fudge. What more could a weary traveler want?[…]
What actually drives decisions like Buc-ee’s
Pam McVety’s recent column raises a thoughtful question: in a world transitioning toward cleaner energy, does a large travel center built around gasoline make sense? […]
The Chamber steps up, breaking deafening silence from Tallahassee-Leon leaders
Something important just happened in Tallahassee — and it didn’t come from City Hall or the County administration building.[…]
What does the crystal ball say on the Tallahassee City Manager search?
Madam Sunshine — RTF’s Notary of Inevitable Outcomes — doesn’t predict the future. She reads the pattern. And in Tallahassee’s city manager search, the pattern is already complete.[…]
On the brink of a win against Florida red tape
Florida does not need another speech about housing affordability. It needs fewer obstacles to building housing.
That is what HB 803 addresses.[…]
OEV marketing doesn’t add up
If you want to understand Tallahassee’s economic development problem, start here…[…]
The gap between Florida’s housing policy and local reality
By Skip Foster, Red Tape Florida Florida’s political leadership has been clear: the state needs more housing, and it needs it faster. Over the past two years, lawmakers have passed a series of increasingly aggressive reforms aimed at making that happen. The Live Local Act opened the door to higher-density residential development in commercial and mixed-use areas.[…]
The Red Tape Ramblers debut: “Sidewalk to Nowhere”
If you’ve been following along, you know the story. A perfectly poured, fully compliant, taxpayer-funded sidewalk in Midtown Tallahassee — that doesn’t connect to anything. Not a mistake. Not temporary. Required. So we did what any reasonable person would do. We wrote a song about it. Introducing The Red Tape Ramblers — a new (and[…]