James Cox Chambers is the grandson of James M. Cox, who built a U.S. newspaper chain after buying the Dayton Evening News in 1898. He became a politician, serving first as an Ohio state representative, then as governor.
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Under federal law, the U.S. Department of Transportation is charged with setting time zones but allows states to exempt themselves from Daylight Saving Time. Both the House and Senate proposals ask Congress to grant Florida the right to pick one time zone for the entire state. âI am not in favor of putting Central Time people on Eastern time,â said Montford. Located on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, Tallahassee experiences later sunrises and later sunsets.