Tom Flanigan

If you’ve seen people play air guitar or air drums, imagine three-dozen young people rocking out on imaginary trumpets, bassoons and violins.  The scene is the little park across the street from the Council on Culture and the Arts.  The symphonic rendering of the popular Kesha tune was the work of local music producers Joe De La Cruz and Kyle Tesalona.  The maestro waving the baton was famed violinist and conductor Patrice Minor Floyd. 

If you’re not familiar with the term “urban farm,” you can get a good look at one this Saturday.  Tom Flanigan reports the Ten Speed Greens farm is located in a quiet otherwise residential corner of Tallahassee’s Midtown area.

This is really the story of two young entrepreneurs.  One of them is named Claire Mitchell.

“We’re both in our 20s.  Danielle Krasniqui is my co-worker.  And we’re from Florida, and we like it in Tallahassee and we want to stay and this is our way of doing that," she says. "We didn’t see any jobs in town that we liked, so we made jobs for ourselves.”

A veteran newspaper reporter often called “The Most Feared Woman in Florida” gives her take on the case of former Republican Party of Florida Chair Jim Greer.  Tom Flanigan reports Lucy Morgan shared her thoughts with the Capital Tiger Bay Club on Friday, February 22nd.

The newspaper was called the “St. Petersburg Times” when Lucy Morgan signed on as a reporter back in 1968.  Today the paper is the “Tampa Bay Times” and Morgan told Tiger Bay members she’d sort of hoped to cover one more big story before retiring.

Northwest Tallahassee finally has its own community center.  Tom Flanigan reports Leon County officials held an official ribbon-cutting for the facility Thursday, Feb. 21.

The new Lake Jackson Community Center is located in the Huntington Oaks Shopping Center at the corner of U.S. 27 and Fred George Road.  County Commission Chair Nick Maddox says it was like a big recycling project.

Not long ago, Florida lawmakers adopted some ambitious recycling goals for the state.  Tom Flanigan reports those targets are now kicking in and the scramble is on to meet those expectations.

All of us have bad days from time to time.  Occasionally, we may even have a few bad days in a row.  Tom Flanigan reports that, for Florida’s private-public organization that does economic development, this was definitely a bad week….

There’s a new series of public lectures starting up in Tallahassee.  Tom Flanigan reports two of the most powerful people in Florida will headline the first one this coming Tuesday (Feb. 12).

The lecture is the latest community project of Holy Comforter Episcopal School, headed by Peter Klecamp.

A well-known Tallahasseean is escalating his crusade to conquer a devastating disease.  Tom Flanigan reports part of that effort involves a gala fund-raiser that takes place next week.

Erwin Jackson is a successful businessman.  He is a relentless critic of corruption in local government and ran for mayor himself not that long ago.  But then, at age sixteen, Jackson’s younger son Brian was diagnosed with Dystonia.

Tallahassee’s Alzheimer’s Project offers all its services free of charge.  As Tom Flanigan reports, that makes an upcoming fund-raiser for the agency critically important.

Tallahassee’s Alzheimer’s Project, Incorporated will mark its twenty-second anniversary this year.  Clinical Director James Smith says much of what was unknown about the disease when the project began remains elusive.

It now looks likely that Florida lawmakers will at least consider doing something about medical malpractice tort reform this year, but there are differing ideas about what should be done.

One group that’s pushing for reform is called “Patients for Fair Compensation”.  It’s based in Alpharetta, Georgia, a state that’s also considering changes to its medical malpractice laws.  The group is chaired by Rick Jackson.  He’s also chairman and chief executive officer of Jackson Healthcare, the nation's third largest healthcare staffing company.

Second Harvest of the Big Bend’s new executive director is settling into his new job. 

Richard “Rich” English is no stranger to the challenging task of collecting huge quantities of food and getting it into the hands of people who desperately need it.

“I came from a much larger food bank in Akron, the Akron-Canton Food Bank, where I gained a lot of experience in the operational part of the business, compliance, food safety, OSHA, those kinds of things," he said.

A Tallahassee musician whose band once ruled the Tennessee Street Strip has released a new record.  Tom Flanigan sat down with poet, guitarist and singer-songwriter Hal Shows to talk about it….

Amendment Number Three is an idea that's already been tried in the state of Colorado with not-so-great results.

One of the eleven proposed constitutional amendments Florida voters will be deciding in the upcoming election is Amendment Number Three.  Outgoing Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos says it’s the solution to a problem that has plagued state government for years.

To say it’s been a long, strange trip for Hal Shows is surely an imperial understatement.  His band “Persian Gulf” broke new sonic ground, first in Tallahassee and later in New York City.  As a solo artist, Shows drew fans in U.S.

A musical favorite son is back in Tallahassee for a good cause.  Tom Flanigan reports the legendary “Sauce Boss” will be stirring up some tasty sounds in support of the Lemoyne Center for the Visual Arts.

The race for Tallahassee City Commission Seat One heated up today (Tuesday).  Tom Flanigan reports the issue involved a campaign brochure, a political T-V ad and a ruling by the Florida Elections Commission.

The brochure promoting candidate Steve Stewart had a photo of him with Leon School Superintendent Jackie Pons.  Stewart opponent Scott Maddox cried “foul”.

Even though it showed the school superintendent’s picture with him on there and had a quote from Jackie Pons on the mail piece, he certainly wanted to give the inference that he was endorsed.”

For nearly one-hundred years, Florida’s County Extension offices have been a great place to learn about growing green.   Tom Flanigan reports it may not be too long before those same offices will be the place to learn about GOING green.