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Brendan FarringtonOctober 7, 2016

As millions of people were being warned to evacuate, two 18-year-old storm chasers packed food and snacks and drove nearly 1,000 miles from New Jersey to Florida just to watch Hurricane Matthew roll past the nation’s oldest city of St. Augustine. “I have an obsession with severe weather, snowstorms, hurricanes tornadoes, anything crazy that most […]

Peter SchorschOctober 6, 2016

The Sandy aid bill, providing $9.7B in aid, otherwise passed unanimously through the Senate.

Mitch PerryJanuary 4, 2016

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According to an average of polling in New Hampshire compiled by Real Clear Politics, Marco Rubio is now at 13.3 percent support in New Hampshire, putting him 13 percentage points behind Donald Trump. That second place status is relatively tenuous, however, with Ted Cruz trailing him with an average of 12 percent, and Chris Christie two points behind, averaging […]

Mitch PerryNovember 9, 2015

St. Joseph’s Hospitals, part of the BayCare Health System and a Pediatric and Level II Trauma hospital, is the only hospital campus in the Tampa Bay area with a co-generator plant. That plant consists of a natural gas-fired combustion engine that powers a 1.7 megawatt generator to produce electricity throughout the hospital campus. And for […]

Guest AuthorSeptember 28, 2014

I’ve lived in Central Florida for more than 15 years and in that time I’ve seen quite a few serious weather events affect our community. Though the hurricane season starts in the summer, around here we tend to become especially aware of the storm possibilities in the early fall, when more tropical activity spins up […]

Guest AuthorApril 7, 2014

I know it seems early, but talk about the 2016 presidential election has already begun. Prognosticators and pundits are opining about who should run, why they should run or why they shouldn’t run. The speculation is inevitable in this age of social media and blogging. The conversation on the Republican side has turned to urging […]

Guest AuthorDecember 4, 2013

I get a kick out of these periodic threats by states or regions to secede from the United States. Sometimes they’re boastful efforts by the likes of Texas, which has a great business economy, low taxes and dismal results to show for it — horrible on education, health care and the environment, so bad it […]

Guest AuthorNovember 26, 2013

If you’ve lived in Florida for a while, you’ve heard stories of people repeatedly rebuilding homes damaged by storms because subsidized insurance and other government programs cover the cost. Now, there’s a move to eliminate the practice, especially on homes that are not primary residences and structures that repeatedly get flooded. So far, so good, […]

Tag: Hurricane Sandy

Wet and wild: New Jersey teens drive 1,000 miles for Matthew

Ron DeSantis voted against Hurricane Sandy aid. How will he vote next week?

Marco Rubio super PAC goes after Chris Christie in 2 new ads

In Tampa, Democratic U.S. Reps. Kathy Castor and Frank Pallone extol St. Joseph’s Hospital energy efficiencies

Melody Bowdon: Weathering the storm surge of social media

Ed Moore: America is setting the performance bar far too low

Mark O’Brien: It’s time to downsize the United States

Mark O’Brien: Expensive flood insurance would have ‘huge implications’