The Tallahassee City Commission was practically giddy.
A shiny new airline named Breeze. Nonstop flights to Fort Lauderdale and Raleigh-Durham. Affordable fares. A 137-seat Airbus A220-300 — described, without apparent irony, as a “Goldilocks-size” plane for Tallahassee’s market.[…]
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ORLANDO — When you pull a permit to remodel your kitchen, add a room, or build a commercial building in Florida, someone has to inspect the work. For most of American history, that someone worked for the government — a county or city building inspector on the public payroll, scheduling inspections on the government’s timeline. […]
HUD just ordered Tallahassee to repay federal money. The findings are much worse than the public was led to believe. […]
Leon County’s retail sales dropped 10% in 2025. Population actually fell while Florida grew at the second-highest rate in the nation. And the county lost jobs from 2024 to 2025, according to the Florida Chamber Foundation. […]
Sarasota County is quickly becoming one of the most interesting political laboratories in Florida. […]
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. […]
North Floridians know Busy Bee.
Clean bathrooms. Killer caramel popcorn. Fudge. What more could a weary traveler want?[…]
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? […]
Something important just happened in Tallahassee — and it didn’t come from City Hall or the County administration building.[…]