Tag: Covid-19
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DeSantis choice for COVID isolation centers was Republican donor who faced federal ‘kickback’ suit
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s pick to provide COVID isolation centers in Florida was a Republican donor who faced a federal kickback suit. -
Broward County uses DeSantis to justify weak COVID-19 response
ByNoreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Broward County Administrator Bertha Henry, who runs the bluest county in Florida, leads a surprisingly subdued campaign against COVID-19. Straining to keep up with coronavirus data while treating desperately ill patients, doctors warn that toothless protection rules will have increasingly dire outcomes. -
Complaint: Fort Lauderdale commissioner bullied homeless into leaving their camp
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
An activist says a Fort Lauderdale city commissioner used bullying tactics to force homeless people to abandon their tent community on public property. -
Fort Lauderdale doctors: Cancel Las Olas Art Fair or watch COVID-19 casualties climb
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
A group of Broward County doctors is trying to convince city and county authorities to cancel this weekend’s Las Olas Art Fair, warning it could turn into a COVID-19 superspreader event. -
Miami-Dade rock miners continue to blast away with help from Legislature
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam has lambasted as virtually worthless a new state program to monitor rock blasting in northwestern Miami-Dade in response to residents’ complaints that it reverberates powerfully through nearby homes. -
Reforms, including no-kill policy, remain elusive at Broward’s Animal Care and Adoption Center
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Mary sensed her chance to pull off a daring escape from the Broward County Animal Care and Adoption Center on Aug. 16. As a staffer walked the scruffy, black pooch to a van manned by a dog rescuer, Mary slipped out of her leash and bolted over a six-foot, chain-link fence, according to an email sent three days later by the facility’s interim director Alessandra Medri.
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