{"id":349987,"date":"2026-07-23T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349987\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:45:07","slug":"what-local-candidates-say-about-growth-in-tallahassee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349987\/","title":{"rendered":"What local candidates say about growth in Tallahassee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tallahassee has many construction projects underway as the city is experiencing growth in housing, businesses, and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>As the primary elections are approaching, we asked local candidates for office how they feel about development and growing the area\u2019s population. In particular, what would they do to keep young people here? That\u2019s the topic of today\u2019s Speaking Of. <\/p>\n<p>Reporter Tristan Wood produced WFSU&#8217;s Candidate Convos, a series of one-on-one digital interviews with local candidates which can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WFSUPublicMedia\/videos\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He presented each candidate with a batch of questions. The queries included growth, development, and how to convince students to stay in town after they finish their studies. On today&#8217;s show, we hear analysis along with those extended answers from the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Click LISTEN above to hear the full segment.<\/p>\n<p>A weekly deep dive into Tallahassee&#8217;s most talked about news topic. Hosted by Gina Jordan every Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tallahassee has many construction projects underway as the city is experiencing growth in housing, businesses, and infrastructure. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-349987","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\/349987","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=349987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}