Local News in Leon County

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Published August 17

Corporations and Trump love Byron Donalds, but do Florida Republican voters feel the same way?

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds is the clear choice of the business and political establishment in Tallahassee going into Tuesday’s primary election for the Republican nomination for governor. Now the question is whether Republican voters will follow suit. The 47-year-old Naples…

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Published August 14

Florida attorney general rewrites property tax cut amendment language after lawsuit

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has submitted for judicial review a rewritten version of the title and ballot summary for Amendment 3. Circuit Judge David Frank in Leon County ordered the AG’s office to rewrite the far-reaching property tax amendment’s ballot language…

City lands $1.35 million from Tallahassee

St Pete Catalyst Published August 05

Judge orders rewrite of property tax amendment ballot language

A Leon County judge has ruled Florida must rewrite the language before voters see it in November.

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Published July 28

Florida judge refuses to boot Fishback from the ballot, won’t ‘decide the race’

A Leon County judge refused Monday to kick Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback off the ballot, agreeing that he hadn’t meant to establish residency in D.C. and pointing out that it’s not the court’s job to decide who becomes Florida’s next governor. “This Court will…

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Published July 09

Florida pastors ask GOP leaders to shield Haitians from deportation

Pastors in Florida’s capital city are asking elected officials to reinstate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week the federal government could end the program. At Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in downtown Tallahassee on Wednesday…