Who Is In Charge When The Cranes Fall? No One
Bruno Rebuffo heard the crane fall before he knew what it was. “It sounded like an earthquake, honestly,” he said. “It was a big loud boom and you thought the roof is going to fall” Across the street...
View ArticleRegistration For Emergency Food Assistance Ends Today At BB&T Center, Hard...
Thousands of people converged on two of South Florida’s sports sites for the final day of sign-ups for Hurricane Irma food stamps. Sign-ups for the Food for Florida program run through 7 p.m. at Hard...
View ArticleFood Assistance For Hurricane Irma Meant Long Waits And A Court Case
The effort to put emergency money for food into the pockets and bank accounts of South Florida meant waiting in lines and in court this week. D-SNAP is the government program for disaster food...
View ArticleKeys Governments Start Looking At Their Own Land For Housing Solutions
The Keys already had an affordable housing problem, before Hurricane Irma. Then that storm destroyed thousands of homes and is already driving up rents. So some government agencies in the Keys are...
View ArticleProblems With Miami-Dade's Emergency Transportation System Caused Pain For...
Hurricane Irma was over and the Monday after the storm all Leola Maedell wanted to do was go home. The elderly Little River resident had been at the red metal picnic table outside Miami Edison Senior...
View ArticleDid The Government Do Enough To Accommodate Disabled At D-SNAP Registration?...
Update 11/20 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved Florida to conduct telephone interviews for individuals who pre-registered for DSNAP who also have a disability or who are over the age of...
View ArticleStill Dealing With Irma? Help Is Still Available
There is assistance available to homeowners and business owners who are still recovering from Hurricane Irma damage. We spoke with John Mills of FEMA and Richard Daigle of the SBA on Sundial to answer...
View ArticleNursing Homes Must Have Generators Today Or Face A Fine
Nursing homes and assisted living facilities must have a generator that can run the air conditioning starting Tuesday.If not, they risk a $1,000 dollar a day fine.
View ArticleLawmakers Want To Keep Affordable Housing Funds For Just That
Florida lawmakers want to stop their colleagues from spending money meant for affordable housing on other projects. The move comes after Hurricane Irma battered and destroyed Floridians’ homes.
View ArticleKeys Start Assessing Irma Response — And Planning For The Next one
Before Sept. 10, the last Category 4 storm to cross the Florida Keys was Donna in 1960 — 57 years ago. "A community loses its institutional knowledge over that time," said Martin Senterfitt, Monroe...
View ArticleQualified Applicants Will Get Phone Interviews For D-SNAP As Suit Continues
There is still a chance for some people to sign up for D-SNAP disaster food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
View ArticleHurricane Prep Needs To Be A Community Effort, Says Miami-Dade Commissioner...
Miami-Dade needs a community-wide "culture of resilience" before the next hurricane, a county commissioner argued in a new report. "Every individual, every household needs to have an emergency plan....
View Article12 Of 14 Nursing Home Deaths After Irma Ruled Homicides
Authorities say the deaths of 12 of the 14 Florida nursing home patients who died after Hurricane Irma have been ruled homicides. The Sun Sentinel reports that autopsy results from the Broward County...
View ArticleMonths After Irma, Are Healthy Trees Being Hauled Away As Garbage?
In the aftermath of any major storm, we can expect to see many toppled and uprooted trees in South Florida. But recently one massive tree in a public park in Miami-Dade was tagged with a heartfelt plea...
View ArticleDebriefing Irma, Officials Say They Need To Do More For Airline Travelers...
As Hurricane Irma churned through South Florida, Patrick O'Quinn felt trapped. He'd moved to Miami about three months before the storm and described himself as "just getting on his feet in terms of...
View ArticleWho Is The Chainsaw Nun? A Principal And Former College Basketball Coach
Sister Margaret Ann greets her students as they’re dropped off to school in the morning. She helps open car doors, gushes over a student’s cute dog and warns a group heading to the Everglades on a...
View ArticleLower Keys Residents Frustrated With Remaining Hurricane Debris
More than two million cubic yards of debris has been hauled out of the Florida Keys since Hurricane Irma. But many residents of the Lower Keys say they are still waiting and they are tired of living in...
View ArticleLetter From Key West: Right After Irma, A Provisional Ad-Hoc Existence
People have asked me a lot since Hurricane Irma if it was scary to go through the storm. I was very fortunate to spend the storm in a strong concrete building, on high ground. And Key West was very...
View ArticleKeys Tourism Chief: We're A Little Beat Up, But We're OK.
It’s been almost three months since Hurricane Irma crossed the Florida Keys — and the heart of the tourism season is right around the corner. But some parts of the Keys are still cleaning up from the...
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