Counties play a major role in day-to-day operations, and their services spread across multiple fields. Some of these services include funding public health and human services, maintaining the justice system, emergency management, maintaining parks and infrastructure, and much more. ...
Public Welfare: Florida Counties Have No Duty to Provide Indigents with Post-Emergency Medical Care - Dade County v. American Hospital of Miami, Inc.502 So. 2d 1230 (Fla. 1987) Respondent, a private hospital, sought to require petitioner, Dade County's public hospital, to accept transfer of...
In Miami, Mayor Francis X. Suarez also released a statement declaring astate of emergencyon June 1. This order enforced that the city manager must take action “to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community.” Given that early June is usually when residents decide to embark...
Using data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Roof Gnome compared 950 counties with moderate to very high tornado risk to determine which counties in the United States are most at risk. According to their findings, two Michigan counties are among the country's 15 most vulnerabl...
Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces.
Vet Care Express is an Animal Ambulance service that provides emergency and non-emergency transport for pets throughout Manatee and Sarasota counties in Florida
In the absence of an Agency Representative or Agency Administrator, the appropriate State Region Command Center (RCC) will determine and authorize the State’s fiscal responsibility. The responsibility and authority for any expenditure of State emergency funds must rest with a State forest officer, ...
Following the words and teachings of Rajneesh (later known as Osho), the makeshift town’s members all dressed in bright orange and carried out the difficult labor that needed to be done. However, under the rule of Rajneesh — and his right-hand woman Ma Anand Sheela — some particularly ...
1921: The Emergency Quota Act Everett Historical // Shutterstock 1921: The Emergency Quota Act In an overwhelming vote of 78-1 in favor, the Emergency Quota Act was passed and signed into law May 19 by President Warren G. Harding to restrict immigration in the United States by imposing a ...
CAVEAT: One candidate who has been watching the results closely says that some of the Board’s numbers are very slightly off by 2 or 3 votes—appearing to not include some emergency ballot results. inCounties|Columbia,Elections & Voting Rights|Permalink|Comments (0) ...