Author: Noreen Marcus
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Astroturfing for politics and profit complicates Florida’s reopen protests
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis is answering President Donald Trump’s call to boost economic recovery from the coronavirus by reopening most of Florida faster than public health experts want. Even so, last month saw small but high-profile rallies in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers, all based on the same complaint: Jobs, services and entertainment aren’t springing back quickly enough. -

Ten years after Deepwater Horizon roiled the Gulf, brakes are off BP’s oil-drilling plans
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Ten years ago, Deepwater Horizon became synonymous with one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. The oil rig explosion on April 20, 2010 killed 11 workers and injured 17; about 4.9 million barrels of crude oil decimated Gulf of Mexico marine life. The horrors were just the beginning. -

FDA to Florida company: Stop turning silver into fools’ gold with fake COVID-19 cure
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Could silver cure COVID-19? Not according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. -

Pandemic invades Broward’s jail system; So far, no Miami-Dade inmates test positive
By Noreen Marcus and Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
As feared, the COVID-19 virus now has invaded Broward’s jail system. On Thursday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office disclosed that two inmates have tested positive for the deadly virus. No inmates in the Miami-Dade County Jail system have tested positive yet. -

Private, public defense lawyers race a common enemy: the coronavirus
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami criminal defense lawyer Edward Shohat and Gordon Weekes, the No. 2 public defender for Broward County, have something in common. Both are racing against time on behalf of a client–in Weekes’s case, many clients.
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