Tag: Florida Department of Health

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Is the Florida Supreme Court building ‘sick’? Staffers reveal troubling symptoms, but no health regulators are watching

By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
The Greek Revival facade of the Florida Supreme Court on Duval Street in downtown Tallahassee may conceal a less elegant secret: It’s possible the building is what toxicologists call “sick.”
Jul 17, 2022 5:00 AM

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Florida kept paying millions for a contact tracing app after DeSantis said contact tracing doesn’t work

By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Months after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said contact tracing doesn’t work, his administration has continued to pay millions of dollars in no-bid deals for a COVID-19 contact tracing app made by a company with ties to a prominent, billionaire Republican donor and represented by an influential Tallahassee lobbyist.
Dec 20, 2020 5:06 AM

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DeSantis gave son of billionaire Trump buddy millions in no-bid COVID contracts

By Daniel Ducassi
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has given more than $4 million in no-bid, coronavirus-related state contracts to a social media startup co-founded based in New York City and led by the son of a South Florida billionaire and prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.
Jun 9, 2020 5:44 AM

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Courtroom battle could lead to limits on fluoridation of drinking water

By Daniel Ross
FairWarning
An alliance of groups led by a government accountability nonprofit have sued the EPA to force it to limit or van adding fluoride to drinking water.
Sep 5, 2017 5:29 AM

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Florida Zika emergency funds went to partner of Ann Scott’s aerial spray businesses

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Gov. Rick Scott has used his emergency authority to spend $33.3 million to combat Zika, some of which went to pay for aerial spraying done by a company that is partnered with his wife’s mosquito spraying businesses in another state.
May 5, 2016 5:19 AM

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As heroin, fentanyl deaths mount, Miami-Dade leaders “research the topic”

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Three months after presenting a plan to Miami-Dade commissioners to tackle an alarming rise in overdose deaths, drug-addiction experts say the county has not moved quickly enough to curb the local opiate epidemic.