Janelle Irwin TaylorMay 22, 2020
5min518
Most respondents want contact tracing, but far fewer are OK with GPS tracking.
Tag: Hernando CountyCrowds gather to see Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Gabrielle Russon)
Janelle Irwin TaylorMay 22, 2020Janelle Irwin TaylorApril 24, 2020
6min605
More people are optimistic, but there's still broad support for restrictions.
Guest AuthorApril 26, 2018
4min225
Two sailors with the Navy Recruiting District (NRD) Miami last Friday rescued a trapped motorist from a vehicle involved in a T-bone style wreck in Brooksville, Hernando County. Sonar Technician 1st Class Steven Guiffere and Operations Specialist 2nd Class Eric Green were driving back to their recruiting stations when they witnessed a two-vehicle collision. The sailors […]
Scott PowersApril 17, 2018
5min453
Warning that Florida may be in violation of the Federal Voting Rights Act, state Sen. Victor Torres on Tuesday led a group of eight mostly-Hispanic Democratic lawmakers in urging Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner to respond to reports that some Florida counties are not providing Spanish-language elections materials. Torres and the others wrote to […]
Peter SchorschJanuary 22, 2018
48min653
— Tampa Bay ranks third statewide in job creation — Tampa Bay added 28,000 new private-sector jobs in the last year, the third-highest number of jobs among all Florida metro areas. In a statement this week from Gov. Rick Scott, Tampa Bay’s unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4 percent, down 1.1 percentage points from the same […]
Brendan FarringtonSeptember 9, 2016
4min155
The Florida Supreme Court reduced the sentence of a death row inmate Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered it to reconsider his intellectual abilities based on factors other than his IQ. Freddie Lee Hall, 71, will now serve a life sentence for the 1978 murder of a 21-year-old pregnant woman who was abducted while […]
Melissa RossJune 9, 2016
4min305
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) is out with a new report detailing the state, county, and local voting changes — proposed or implemented — during the past three years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. The report, titled “Democracy Diminished,” looks at how states and counties with […]