Tag: Covid-19
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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. -
Top DeSantis staff duped into no-bid COVID-19 testing deal with ‘con artist’
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Florida’s top emergency management official personally signed off on a major, no-bid COVID-19 testing contract with an unqualified company run by a confessed thief — while the man who supposedly signed for the company says the signature on the contract isn’t his, and he has nothing to do with the firm. -
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Blind Floridians demand state heed their plight in voting-rights case
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Advocates for Florida voters who are blind or vision-impaired are trying to raise their profile in a federal mail-in-voting case. They say their right to vote is at risk despite an easy fix. -
No-bid Florida COVID contracts flow to DeSantis donors
By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Millions of dollars in no-bid state contracts issued as part of Florida’s COVID-19 response have gone to a trio of firms tied to men who’ve contributed hefty sums to support Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political ambitions.
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