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Tropical update, possible Florida impact: Everything you need to know in less than a minute
Tight on time? This story is for you. It's an abbreviated, fewer graphics look at what's happening in the tropics. Click here for more details. Tropical wave could become depression or storm as it moves toward Florida, US ...
Florida First Lady Hosted Cooking Class for Youth in Foster Care
Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis, joined by Department of Children and Families Secretary Shevaun Harris and Guardian ad Litem Executive Director Dennis Moore, hosted a hands-on, healthy cooking class for Hope Florida mentors and mentees. The event showcased the partnership between Hope Florida and the Guardian ad Litem program, which...
Nikki Fried's fight to save Florida's endangered Democrats from extinction
There are few reasons for a Democrat in Florida to be hopeful, but give Nikki Fried five minutes, and she can find some.Her pitch begins with blue flips in Jacksonville and Orange County. It ends with this year's historic referenda on abortion and weed.Why it matters: The next three months will decide the future of the Florida Democratic Party (FDP) — and Fried, its chair.Fried is the last Democrat to hold statewide office, a feat that made her the focus of the party's hopes. She became FDP chair in 2023 with an urgent mandate: Save an endangered party from extinction.The...
Jacksonville organizations hope mayor’s proposed funding will help build temporary shelters for unhoused
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With the Florida public sleeping ban set to go into effect on Oct. 1, Jacksonville organizations are hopeful a new proposal from Mayor Donna Deegan will allow them to give people without homes the support they need to find a safe place to live. “There’s people...
Incentives requests would boost expansion plans for Jacksonville food-related businesses
Two Jacksonville food-related businesses would receive city incentives to fund expansion plans under requests proposed by the city Office of Economic Development. According to project summaries provided by the OED, the code-named requests are:. • Up to $500,000 in incentives for Project Giant, described as a Northwest Jacksonville food service...
Jacksonville Aviation Authority board members speak out on CrowdStrike outage impacts at JAX
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For the first time since that global CrowdStrike outage, the Jacksonville Aviation Authority (JAA) held its first board meeting. The outage resulted in canceled flights, stranded passengers and misplaced luggage that overflowed baggage claim for days. At the JAA board meeting, IT Director Steven Schultz said...
Alarms Raised Over Beach Dredging Feared Close to Live Fishery Grounds, Endangering Soft Corals and Sea Life
Backed by GPS data, photographs, and eyewitness accounts from the ground and from a fishing vessel, four people–two of them key advocates of the beach renourishment project ongoing in Flagler Beach, two of them fishing-vessel owners–are warning in dire terms that the dredging of over 1 million cubic yards of sand from the sea bottom several miles offshore is raking up live sea life and getting dangerously close to damaging or destroying a unique fishing ground.
Florida representative District 81: Meet candidate Yvette Benarroch
Gladyvette "Yvette" Benarroch , 54, says she is a mom, a business owner and "an outsider, not a politician." Benarroch says she wants to preserve the American dream, one she followed to business ownership and homeownership and running for office. ...
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