Anne GeggisOctober 20, 2022
5min0
FEMA: Individual assistance to Hurricane Ian victims tops the amount counted one year after Hurricane Michael.
Tag: Hurricane Harvey
Anne GeggisOctober 20, 2022
Associated PressSeptember 16, 2020
5min388
Slow movement exacerbates risk of flooding.
Ryan NicolMay 28, 2019
7min627
Roy blocked $19.1 billion in funding on procedural grounds.
Ryan NicolMay 28, 2019
5min342
"Instead of providing swift relief, Republicans again today offered only prolonged misery."
Guest AuthorApril 1, 2019
5min446
"We must let him [DeSantis] know that is not acceptable."
Peter SchorschOctober 24, 2018
5min326
Recall last year during the cleanup of Hurricane Irma that, due to a variety of factors, debris cleanup was a mess. Pun very much intended. Irma hit the Sunshine State on the heels of Hurricane Harvey in turning the greater Houston area into a lake for weeks. The back-to-back crises meant that truckers and haulers […]
Scott PowersSeptember 11, 2018
4min330
Now that Sept. 11 has, on some level, a double function as an anniversary and memorial, Democratic state Sen. Victor Torres led a moment of remembrance in Orlando for the 2011 terrorist attacks — then for hurricanes of the past, present and future, raising concerns of the long-term threat to Florida and the islands posed by […]
Scott PowersApril 18, 2018
8min378
A new report from the National Employment Law Project Action Fund charges that Florida’s workers got shortchanged by state and federal efforts to provide disaster unemployment assistance following Hurricane Irma last fall. The report alleges Floridians, under Gov. Rick Scott‘s guidance, received far less from the federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance program than under any Florida governor […]
Danny McAuliffeDecember 14, 2017
5min222
Get ready, Florida. Devastating storms like Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria are the new normal. At least that’s what Craig Fugate, who led FEMA under President Barack Obama, and other partners in a campaign are saying to raise awareness and involvement in a new age of hurricane safety. “Irma made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane […]
Phil AmmannNovember 20, 2017
5min237
Marriott International, among other major hotel and hospitality chains, did a very respectable job during Hurricane Irma. As the September storm forced many in South Florida to seek shelter points North, hotels and other services – like home-sharing Airbnb — stepped up in a big way to offer accommodations for victims and relief workers. For […]