Tallahassee Reports<\/p>\n
Tuesday, June 23, 2026<\/p>\n
Weather: Today, showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 2pm and 3pm with a high near 92. Tonight, a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm with a low around 72. Wednesday, sunny, with a high near 91. Wednesday night, with a low around 71. NWS<\/a><\/p>\n US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.4%, Dow +0.3%, Nasdaq -1.3%) (More<\/a>).<\/p>\n Local & State News<\/p>\n During a recent presentation about the local economy at the Capital Tiger Bay Club, Skip Foster, the former publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, stated that \u201cIn October of 2024, according to the OEV\u2019s own data center, there were 163,592 jobs in Leon County. The latest reporting data \u2013 it\u2019s down to 158,830.\u201d Foster concludes that, based on this data, \u201cAlmost 5,000 jobs have vanished in 18 months.\u201d Foster\u2019s conclusion is wrong and here\u2019s why.<\/a><\/p>\n An upward trend in the state\u2019s unemployment rate paused in May, with hiring by small businesses considered \u201cflat.\u201d Details<\/a><\/p>\n National News<\/p>\n Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chair known as \u201cThe Maestro,\u201d died yesterday from complications of Parkinson\u2019s disease at age 100. He led the central bank from 1987 to 2006, steering the US economy through a\u00a0stock market crash<\/a>, the dot-com boom, the 9\/11 attacks, and years of growth that made him the defining policymaker of his era.\u00a0<\/p>\n Vice President\u00a0JD Vance\u00a0says Iran agreed to allow nuclear inspectors back into the country, while Iran says it made \u201cno new commitments\u201d; inspectors have had limited access since Israeli strikes on Iran in June 2025 (More<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee Reports Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Weather: Today, showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly between 2pm and 3pm with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-316868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}