LOCAL NEWS
Campaign documents indicate that an influential member of the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Board of Directors, Sally Bradshaw, made significant donations to City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow’s mayoral campaign during a time when TMH and Florida State University were negotiating a deal to create an academic medical center in the Tallahassee.
The possible takeover of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital by Florida State University has sparked controversy. But Mayor John Dailey said the plan is nothing new.
FLORIDA NEWS
Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t think Florida Democrats should tell him about their fears of low-income Floridians losing access to food benefits.
NATIONAL NEWS
President Donald Trump instructed the Defense Department to resume nuclear weapons testing minutes before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. See live updates here.
Hurricane Melissa weakens to a Category 1 storm en route to the Bahamas after killing at least 30 people across Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic (More).
US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.0%, Dow -0.2%, Nasdaq +0.6%) after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signals Fed may not cut rates again this year (More).
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