“No One Can Compete With Us”
Tallahassee leaders gathered at City Hall for a regularly scheduled commission meeting. Congratulations in handling the storm were exchanged and City Manager Reese Goad proudly stated “no one can compete with us.” Two major historic hurricanes made landfall in a couple of weeks. Linemen across the state, and even country, began working tirelessly to restore […]
Why “Ghost” Candidate In Our Local Elections Matter
Before we began FloridaCapitalTea, our team had varying degrees of interest in local politics. Some of us knew nothing and followed nothing. So when we first started to hear about “ghost” candidates from Valerie Crowder one of our team members asked, “So why does this matter?” On the surface, this appears to be a colossal […]
Taxpayers Cost Of Business With Tallahassee Reports
FloridaCapitalTea was asked recently to look into the amount of money the city spends on media outlets. Our neighbors express distrust in the local media and their stories. Many express they feel like the media writes stories in a slant to better represent the city management at the cost of information to the public. While […]
Text Messages Reveal Entanglement of Grow Tallahassee and City Commissioners
The Origin of Grow Tallahassee We discovered text messages between Curtis Richardson’s Aide and Bugra Demirel. We discovered that Richardson and his aide were confidants and possibly collaborators in the founding of Grow Tallahassee. They have been in correspondence with each other since the founding of Grow Tallahassee back to May 2020. Due to who […]
Our Relationship With The Florida League of Cities
The City of Tallahassee is a Proud member of Florida League of Cities (FLC). Mayor Dailey, Diane Williams-Cox, and Reese Goad received a “Home Rule” Award from this organization. After the award was presented, FloridaCapitalTea wanted to know more about this organization we are associated with. According to their website https://www.flcities.com/about-pages/about they have been a […]
Our Firefighter’s 175 Money: Why The City Wants It
This past weekend the City Scheduled two impromptu meetings for our firefighter’s three year contract. The meetings were added to the calendar on Monday, a holiday. This brings up the question: Did the city provide enough public notice of this meeting? During both these meetings the City stated they wanted the firefighters to sign over […]
A Summary of The Firefighters One Year Contract
We are awaiting a ruling from the special magistrate in the Arbitration case between our Firefighters and The City of Tallahassee for the firefighters one year contract. Since March of 2024 our Firefighters have been in prolonged negotiations In the past year our firefighters have had 22 meetings with the City. Near the end of […]
Dorothy “Dot” Inman-Johnson For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Dorothy “Dot” Inman-Johnson. Looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference, we explored her campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled her name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your own research […]
Curtis Richardson For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Curtis Richardson. Looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference, we explored his campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your own research on […]
Bernard Stevens Jr For City Commission Seat 2
We set out to research who is Bernard Stevens Jr. We are looking at various sources on the internet and compiling them into one spot fora quick reference. We explored his campaign page, social media sites, and finally we Googled his name. This is not a complete compilation and we encourage you to do your […]
The OPE: Three City Employees Simultaneously Receive Salary And Pension
After playing the game long enough, a small select few within The City of Tallahassee have discovered the cheat code category OPE. OPE category is short for Other Personnel Expenses. A category so hidden that when 850CapitlTea searched for a description on the City of Tallahassee webpage, we were directed to the 2024 adopted budget. […]
Leon County School Board: The Questions We Wanted To Know
While 850CapitalTea does hold our own bias we feel it would be a disservice to our audience to not allow all candidates an opportunity to answer the same questions and have the attention of our viewers. It takes courage to run in an election and it takes greater courage to answer tough questions posed by […]
This Page Was Never Intended To Be About Me
My name is Anna Marie and this page was never intended to be about me. It was created to amplify the people of Tallahassee. People who have gone before the City commission week after week only to have their voices fall on deaf ears. This page will continue to amplify your voices and bring information […]
Firefighter Arbitration Case: The Witnesses
The Arbitration meeting took place on March 27, 2024 between The City of Tallahassee and our Tallahassee Firefighters (the Union). Throughout the five hour day, four witnesses that work for the city were brought to the stand to testify. We did not include the Union representative Joey Davis. CapitalTea received several requests asking about the […]
Once In A Career, Firefighters Battle Blaze
On Friday March 22, 2024 at 3:20 in the afternoon The Tallahassee Fire Department was dispatched to a structure fire. This Fire was not a typical structure fire for our area and is considered “a once in a career fire.” Many of the fires that our department respond to involve single family homes. According to […]
