Staff ReportsSeptember 12, 2017
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On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott toured impacts of Hurricane Irma in Lee County with City of Bonita Springs Mayor Peter Simmons and Lee County Undersheriff Carmine Marceno.
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Staff ReportsSeptember 12, 2017Staff ReportsSeptember 12, 2017
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Citing Hurricane Irma, Constitution Revision Commission (CRC) Chairman Carlos Beruff has canceled the body’s first committee week that was scheduled for Sept. 18-19. Beruff also said he was asking the commission’s Rules and Administration committee to reconsider the proposed Sept. 22 public filing deadline for amendments. A new commission is selected and meets every 20 years to […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 12, 2017
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Hurricane Irma’s impact stopped being felt in Jacksonville Monday afternoon, and it was soon thereafter that Gov. Rick Scott was in town. Scott, who added Duval County to his ask for a major disaster declaration post-Irma on Monday evening, visited a local hurricane shelter with New York Mets’ minor league prospect Tim Tebow, a legend in these […]
Drew WilsonSeptember 12, 2017
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Florida’s transportation infrastructure should be able to bounce back quickly from Hurricane Irma according to a memo put out Tuesday by financial research group Moody’s. The credit rating group said even though many are still closed, the state’s airports, seaports and toll roads will “generally be able to sustain their long-term credit quality because of […]
A.G. GancarskiSeptember 12, 2017
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Tuesday afternoon saw what likely will be one of the last briefings on Jacksonville City Council members on Hurricane Irma. And it was a doozy — complete with recriminations and frustrations over another round of slow power restoration from JEA. Recovery is underway, with JEA crews having resolved roughly 20,000 outages during daylight hours Tuesday, […]
Scott PowersSeptember 12, 2017
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For the first time since early Monday morning, power is on for just over half the state of Florida. That means 5.47 million homes and businesses still were without power at noon today, according to the latest data compiled and provided by the Florida Office of Emergency Management. That’s 48 percent of all electricity customers […]
Mitch PerrySeptember 12, 2017
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For safety reasons, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is declaring a curfew for Tuesday night, beginning 11 p.m. through 7 a.m. “The curfew is mandatory and will be strictly enforced by Miami Beach Police Department,” Levine announced in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Residents to the city could return to their homes Tuesday morning, following a […]
Staff ReportsSeptember 12, 2017
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About 500,000 municipal utility customers remain without power following the three days that Hurricane Irma battered the state, according to the Florida Municipal Electric Association (FMEA). The hardest-hit areas for municipal electric utilities include the Florida Keys, Homestead, Moore Haven, Clewiston, Wauchula, Lakeland, Bartow, Fort Meade, Orlando, Ocala and the Jacksonville area. Currently, 37 percent of […]
Joe HendersonSeptember 12, 2017
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The winds have died and the mopping up has begun. Businesses are reopening as people head back to work while dealing, at least for now, with their new realities. I know people whose homes were badly damaged by this storm, while others – myself luckily included – had only minor inconveniences. No matter whether Irma […]
Staff ReportsSeptember 12, 2017
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All Leon County offices will reopen on Wednesday, the county announced Tuesday. Also, a regular scheduled meeting of the Board of County Commissioners set for tonight was rescheduled to next Wednesday, Sept. 20. A workshop will be rescheduled at a later date. Solid Waste Services and debris removal will resume as follows: — Regular trash and recycling […]