Author: redtape

In addition to having one of the greatest nicknames in all of sports – the Chanticleers – Coastal Carolina University knows how to market and drive attendance. 

The Conway, S.C., Division 1 football team had a decent 2024 (6-7 record) with decent attendance, averaging 17,128 in a stadium of 20,000. Season tickets average around $200.[…]

While TLH fares are highest in the land; traffic has stalled  In 1994, the Tallahassee Airport celebrated a major milestone – more than 1 million passengers flew out of TLH.  In the more than 30 years since then, growth in other Florida airports has been rapid.  Palm Beach Airport passenger traffic has grown 50 percent.[…]

Let’s state this clearly up front: 

The City of Ormond Beach is on a course to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars fighting a perfectly legal new home development on behalf of a handful of nearby homeowners who are weaponizing local government to deny someone their property rights.[…]

City Attorney censors Planning Director; did commissioners know? 

The email from Ormond Beach Planning Director is as damning as it is shocking.[…]

Leon County Commissioner for District 4, Brian Welch, took to Facebook this week to talk about the developments near Chiles High School.[…]

Red Tape Florida’s Skip Foster weighed in on a situation in Ormond Beach where some commissioners are trying to tie up the mayor in knots of bureaucracy by having him defer to “public information officers” when he is approached by the media.[…]

Anytime even the smallest new development is announced in Tallahassee, someone inevitably says “we are turning into Orlando.”  

Not only is that not happening, Tallahassee and Leon are getting much farther away from being a growing, vibrant community where our citizens see their incomes rise and our children stick around to build meaningful and rewarding careers.[…]