
Tallahassee Town Hall 2025
There’s nothing more quintessentially American than a town hall meeting. Within its ethos is the important founding principle that political foes must grudgingly become partners as they engage conflicting ideas in order to govern. It’s the old-fashioned spirit of rolling up our sleeves and just getting it done. We hope you’ll join us to be a part of it either live in the WFSU studio or via Zoom.
Our annual town hall hosts commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges out there on the horizon might be. You know, democracy. Booyah. (Look – Washington – at how it’s done.) Our town hall is facilitated by the one and only Tom Flanigan of WFSU and powered by the Tallahassee Democrat and Leadership Tallahassee.
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The program also will be available via Zoom, and live streamed at live.wfsu.org, YouTube, and Facebook.
Can’t make the event in person? Submit your questions before the event here.
In a time when too many town hall meetings make the news with fistfights (egged on by professional polarizers who make big money – or win elections – if we can’t stand each other) we think it’s past time to breathe a little new life in the old-fashioned town hall. Lost in all the time we focus on the highly divisive national slugfest are the issues that affect us locally, personally, everyday. Besides, if we’re not showing up to help make the decisions important in our hometown, who will?
As always, we will be following and enforcing our Rules for Civil Discourse as follows:
All Village Square programs are forums for CIVIL conversations. This means no cat calls, whistles, yelling, team clapping, or other intentionally disruptive behavior is tolerated. For this we have our civility bell. The bell will be rung if behavior moves outside the realm of civility, signaling the need to refrain from such behavior. Repeat offenders will be kindly asked to leave the event. Signs or banners also are not allowed at these events. Audience questions are accepted during the designated Q&A portion of the program via written submission only. Pens and paper are provided for this purpose.
Notes about Registration and Room Capacity for In-person Attendance:
All in-person attendees are required to register. Advance registration is encouraged as space is limited and admittance will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis, starting with those who are pre-registered. We will do our best to accommodate those who have not pre-registered as space allows. Doors will open at 5:30 PM. Onsite parking will be provided for those attending the event.
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Christian Caban

Carolyn Cummings

Nick Maddox

Rick Minor

David O’Keefe

Bill Proctor

Brian Welch

John Dailey

Jeremy Matlow

Curtis Richardson

Dianne Williams-Cox


Oyez, oyez, oyez. Join the Town Hall.
Despite the differences between our founders – and the odds against them – in this new country the king was no longer the seat of power. It was now the humble town hall. It’s now our job to govern.