In a time when too many town hall meetings make national 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 that neighbors get reacquainted, break a little bread together now and then, remembering how being neighbors used to work. Lost in all the focus on the highly divisive national slugfest are the issues that affect us locally, personally, everyday. And if we’re not showing up to help make the decisions important in our hometown, who will? We like the idea that we can show all those hoity-toity Washington DC types how it’s done. And since we’re supposed to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, maybe this is just as it should be.
Our annual town hall pairs 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 ahead might be.
Join a conversation that examines the past and present of Black women and their lives in America.
Join a conversation that examines how national and statewide perspectives on voting access and security impact our local community.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
On Thursday, May 20th — across the years, across the state — we’ll celebrate Emancipation Day and consider our generation’s work still to do.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
Join Skip Foster for another COVID discussion – this one focused on the vaccine with two members of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, Dr. Geeta Swamy and Dr. Paul Spearman.
Join former Tallahassee Democrat Publisher Skip Foster as he asks Dr. Andrea Friall and Dr. Dean Watson the questions you really need answered about this pandemic.
With COVID rates rising in Tallahassee, we’ll have Tallahassee Memorial Hospital CEO Mark O’Bryant back with us again for a follow-up conversation with former Tallahassee Democrat Publisher Skip Foster about where we are in this crisis now as a community.
At our Constitutional Amendments “101” program, we gather with experts to discuss the pros and cons of the amendments that will appear on Florida ballots in November.
The final program in our series “Equality in Life: The Role of Government,” is facilitated by Lila Jaber, President of the Jaber Group and Founder of the Florida’s Women in Energy Leadership Forum.
Part 2 in our series focuses on “Equality in Life: Business and Growth,” facilitated by Heidi Otway, President of SalterMitchell PR.
If you are looking for deep insight into how COVID is affecting our community — free of politics and hysteria — you’ll want to join Tallahassee Memorial Hospital CEO Mark O’Bryant and Pulmonary & Critical Care Specialist Dr. Carlos Campo for a special conversation with former Tallahassee Democrat Publisher Skip Foster. O’Bryant and Campo have […]
As our beloved Tallahassee/Leon County community joins others around the nation in the important unfinished work to make the promise of equality a reality, constructive conversation helps to illuminate the path to progress and meaningful change. In that spirit, a group of community leaders share diverse perspectives about critical and relevant issues in a special series of Town Hall presentations.
If we’re going to live into the long-promised vision of our founders that “all men are created equal,” we’re probably going to have to get a little uncomfortable first. In partnership with Leon County.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
Our polarization doesn’t exist in theory in far-off places – ultimately it’s a dysfunction that takes roots (and can grow) in who we are to each other right here where we live.
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life.
At the Longest Table we share a meal and get a glimpse into one another’s lives and unique experiences, across the diversity that makes us a vibrant and vital community. A project of the City of Tallahassee, Leon County Government, Leadership Tallahassee and the Village Square.
Invented by a Jewish rabbi, now there’s Christian speed dating, graduate student speed dating, even speed dating for pet adoption and – for the truly noncommittal – online speed dating.
There’s nothing more quintessentially American than a town hall meeting. It’s how the business of American community has gotten done from just about the moment the first disaffected European foot hit ground in the New World.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
If we’re going to live into the long-promised vision of our founders that “all men are created equal,” we’re probably going to have to get a little uncomfortable first. In partnership with Leon County.
Our annual town hall pairs commissioners from the City of Tallahassee and Leon County to have a constructive (and neighborly) cross-governmental discussion about where we are, where we’re going and what the challenges ahead might be.
In 20 years, what will your neighborhood, city, and county look like? Our decisions today will build a legacy. Let’s be intentional about what that legacy will be.
We thought it would be fun to talk about the latest on big new things going on in Tallahassee…new businesses, new restaurants, new ideas, new technology and even what could be new if we made it happen.
With news that the Center for Disease Control is recommending that Americans wear masks to decrease the community spread of COVID-19, The Village Square wants to support local start-up efforts to make face masks — and provide them especially to medical personnel and essential personnel at high risk in the community.
