Tallahassee Democrat Editorial December 28, 2017 Under normal circumstances, if there wasn’t an ethics cloud hovering over City Hall, replacing retiring City Attorney Lew Shelley wouldn’t be so difficult. But these are not normal times. The FBI is investigating city dealings and the Community Redevelopment Agency, the city manager is suspended pending an investigation of his soliciting […]
City reverses course, will post FBI records on website without $22,000 charge
Tallahassee Democrat by Jeffrey Schweers November 8, 2017 The Tallahassee City Commission voted 4-1 Wednesday to make available for free all public records the city has provided to a federal grand jury in connection with an ongoing public corruption investigation. Mayor Andrew Gillum made the motion that, given the overwhelming public interest, all records that have been compiled […]
A crisis of confidence in our city government
Tallahassee Democrat Editorial October 24, 2017 The Democrat has written more than 60 stories on the FBI investigation into city corruption and related issues of ethics and impropriety. None has been more startling – and has included such a smoking gun – as the one published in Wednesday’s Democrat on Tallahassee City Manager Rick Fernandez’s Sept. […]