Tag: Covid-19
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Runup to 2022 elections: A court contest that’s really about thwarting the Big Lie
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A court challenge to Miami-Dade County’s election chief Christina White marks the early days of a rollicking Florida political season runup to the August primary and November general elections. -
‘Writing on the wall’ at prominent appeals court supports DeSantis’s pandemic agenda
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A Florida appellate judge who openly sneered at a COVID-19 precaution seems to be helping his court steer legal rulings toward political goals. -
Welcome to ‘Floridastan’: Trying to out-Texas Texas, DeSantis and GOP lawmakers hand vigilantes swords and shields
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Republican legislators are over performing for their favorite constituents: rightist culture warriors seeking legal support in their struggle against people, ideas and policies they fear and detest. -
No one’s a winner in Miami home eviction ordered during brief lull in pandemic moratorium
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami woman says her landlord took advantage of a brief pause in the national eviction moratorium to force her out of her home illegally. -
DeSantis gave $103.4 million in no-bid contracts to Sunrise’s MedPro, accused of ‘trafficking’ foreign nurses, to staff vaccine sites
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has given more than $100 million in no-bid contracts to a healthcare staffing company accused in court of profiting from the “forced labor” of foreign workers under a system of “indentured servitude.” -
Miami-Dade was oblivious to FDA warning when it signed giant COVID testing contract with Curative
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
When the administration of Miami Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava signed a multimillion dollar no-bid contract with a COVID-19 testing company in late January, the mayor’s spokeswoman says nobody there knew about a well-publicized FDA alert issued weeks earlier warning of the risk of false negative results with the company’s tests.
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