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Adam WeinsteinDecember 18, 2014

There is a chance — slim, to be sure, but a still a chance — that Florida’s capital may finally get the newspaper it deserves. Which is to say, it may finally get a newspaper. It’s hard to describe what Leon County residents currently have, the Tallahassee Democrat, as anything other than an expensive wrapper […]

Guest AuthorOctober 19, 2014

If you live in Florida’s capital city, one routine complaint is the airport: Flights are too expensive; it’s just hard getting anywhere from here. So city officials are trying to change the narrative, if not the flight path of Tallahassee Regional Airport. They want to join the ranks of Melbourne International and Sarasota-Bradenton International. Before […]

Peter SchorschOctober 17, 2014

A friend who owns properties in Tallahassee told me he had no interest in buying the The Florida Press Center because there would be less turnover in a halfway house than in a building where newspaper, television, radio and wire services reporters work. That Dean Wormer, err, Ridings, president and CEO of the FPA, was able […]

Diane RobertsOctober 13, 2014

Hard rain falling here in the land where college football is the élan vital. First, the very large, very detailed, story in the New York Times: seems the Tallahassee police habitually cut Seminole football players some slack — a lot of slack — when they vandalize property, steal, and assault women. Fox Sports News had […]

Adam WeinsteinOctober 9, 2014

The capital of Florida used to have a good newspaper, I’m told. It’s hard to know, because by the time I started working there — 2006 — Knight Ridder had sold the Tallahassee Democrat to Gannett, the cigarette-perfumed, drunken used-car salesman of media corporations, and the paper was a ghost of itself. There was always […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 17, 2014

Recently some FSU professors bought a full-page ad in the Tallahassee Democrat and another professor wrote an op-ed criticizing Sen. John Thrasher, who is a candidate to become FSU’s next president. I was appalled when I read the advertisement because it seemed like I was reading a political ad. There was a kernel of truth […]

Guest AuthorJuly 28, 2014

Earlier this month, Tallahassee was rocked by the high-profile shooting of a Florida State law professor. Dan Markel was gunned down in his own house on the nice side of town. As news of the killing spread, the Tallahassee Police Department moved quickly to reassure the residents of Markel’s neighborhood: He wasn’t the victim of […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2013

In this football-mad state capital, Famous Jameis Winston is so much more important than Rick Scott, and what goes on at Doak Campbell Stadium is more relevant than happenings at the Capitol. There are probably more prayers being offered from pulpits for the Florida State quarterback than for the stricken people of the Philippines. Yes, […]

Tag: Tallahassee Democrat

Adam Weinstein: Finally, the right guy loses his job at Tallahassee’s newspaper

Andrew Skerritt: Trying to take off, Tallahassee Airport wants to go international

Peter Schorsch: Dean Ridings — Fangate makes him ‘Loser of the Week in Fla. Politics’

Diane Roberts: We rabid sports fans are loving college football to death

Adam Weinstein: Another bloodbath at the deteriorating Tallahassee Democrat

Barney Bishop: FSU faculty criticisms of Thrasher are hypocritical

Andrew Skerritt: The capital city confronts gun violence, belatedly

Andrew Skerritt: Football fanaticism skews our sense of right and wrong