For more than a year, Red Tape Florida has documented a pattern playing out across the state. The Legislature passes laws to reduce bureaucracy. Some local governments respond by creating new bureaucracy.[…]
Employment, wages, population, bankruptcy all headed in wrong direction; instead of lining up paid apologists, maybe local officials should take action? […]
City Hall claims $8.46 million in buyout savings. But when Red Tape Florida asked to see the records behind the number, the City said: There aren’t any. […]
No, it’s not a Florida-Georgia Line lyric, Tallahassee taxpayers actually shelled out nearly $100,000 – perhaps more – for a luxury vehicle for the TPD Police Chief. Here’s the kicker – a no-limit contract means the City could have spent more […]
Most days, Red Tape Florida writes about government at its most frustrating.
We write about permits that take too long, regulations that don’t make sense, public officials who lose sight of the people they serve and bureaucracies that forget they exist to solve problems—not create them.[…]
As our family pulled our RV onto the highway this week, I found myself thinking about the weight of this Independence Day.
Two hundred and fifty years.[…]
Here’s a sentence we did not expect to write: Among the reasons the City of Tallahassee gave for delaying power to a $25 million hotel was the color of a sticker. […]
When Red Tape Florida launched, the mission wasn’t simply to criticize local government. […]
Skip Foster, publisher of Red Tape Florida and president of Hammerhead Communications, addressed the Capital Tiger Bay Club Thursday with a blunt diagnosis of Tallahassee and Leon County’s economic condition. The speech argued that population, job, and sales numbers all point the same direction — down — and laid out a six-point prescription for reversing course. We’re publishing the full remarks below, word for word. […]
A few days ago, a government job posting stopped Red Tape Florida cold.
Palm Beach County is hiring.
The salary: $79,156 to $133,598 annually.
The title?
Chief of Unsafe Structures.[…]