Scott set up three disaster relief centers to help arrivals with driver's licenses, job searches, and disaster aid applications. Scott also asked education officials to waive public school enrollment rules for evacuated islanders, and to give college-bound evacuees the same tuition breaks state resi...
President Donald Trump announced $448 million in new disaster relief funding for the hurricane-ravaged Florida panhandle area at a political rally in Panama City Beach.
The relief of going home is at times overwhelmed by the logistics of the trip and then putting their pre-storm lives back together. On social media, travelers traded advice on how to avoid the chaotic scenes many experienced on the way out: long lines for gasoline and traffic so bad that...
Floridians will soon vote on whether there is a constitutional right to sell recreational marijuana (Amendment 3). Elite Democrats who control the Palm Beach Posturge peasants to vote “yes”on this amendment. The same newspaper also reports thatelite Democrats in Palm Beach per se have voted t...
Blind Pass–Also on Wed, Jan 8, the City provided an update on some post-Milton recovery efforts. Following that storm, the City’s disaster contractor Crowder Gulf removed sand from the roadway that was impacting access to/from Captiva. They have screened and stockpiled 3 to 4 thousand cubi...
One consideration,as Kadia Goba of Semafor reported, is that Moskowitz leaving Congress “would deny Democrats a vote for weeks, padding Republicans’ edge and potentially let the GOP flip Moskowitz’s seat.” DEAL REACHED —Congress has reached a $100 billion federal spendi...
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he plans to call a special legislative session to provide property-tax relief to people affected by Hurricane Ian, with the session possibly addressing property-insurance issues. DeSantis also said he planned to issue an executive order that would delay tax-payment...
Others note the announcement comes just weeks before the presidential election, and see it as an attempt to win Florida. Many Puerto Ricans moved to Florida after Hurricane Maria. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens but do not have the right to vote. Those who moved ...
He has been pressing House Speaker Mike Johnson to approve more aid money before the US election on 5 November, but Mr Johnson maintains the issue will be dealt with after the vote. Image:The aftermath of Hurricane Milton. Pic: NBC
Registered independent Russell Liddick, a 38-year-old Pompano Beach retail worker, carried a sign reading, "I'm not here for Trump! I'm here for fair elections! Fire Snipes!" He said the office's problems "don't make me feel very much like my vote counted." ...