Tag: Florida

The Florida nursing home in which a dozen patients died after Hurricane Irma has laid off its 245 employees and closed down. (Screen shot)

Florida nursing home where 12 died after Hurricane Irma is closing

Kimberly Leonard · October 7, 2017 9:25 pm

With hours to go before the hurricane makes landfall somewhere between Louisiana and the Florida panhandle, radar imagery showed precipitation in the vicinity of New Orleans. The eye of the hurricane was also visible on local radar. (Radar imagery courtesy of NWS New Orleans/Baton Rouge, La.)

Hurricane Nate’s outer bands roll over Louisiana coast hours before expected Category 2 landfall

Daniel Chaitin · October 7, 2017 7:16 pm

As of late Saturday morning, the storm was still a Category 1 hurricane with 90 mph winds, located fewer than 200 miles south of the Mississippi River and moving at 26 mph north-north west. (National Hurricane Center)

National Hurricane Center: Hurricane Nate now ‘expected’ to be Category 2 upon landfall

Daniel Chaitin · October 7, 2017 3:37 pm

Landfall is expected to be somewhere between Louisiana and the Florida panhandle. (National Hurricane Center)

Hurricane Nate speeds toward Gulf Coast, NWS warns preparations should be ‘rushed to completion’

Daniel Chaitin · October 7, 2017 1:34 pm

Hurricane Nate brings the threat of heavy rainfall, "life-threatening" storm surge, surf and rip current conditions, hurricane force winds, and even isolated tornadoes. (National Hurricane Center)

Nate strengthens into a hurricane as US Gulf Coast braces for impact

Daniel Chaitin · October 7, 2017 4:04 am

Energy and Environment

FERC appeals court’s ruling in pipeline climate decision

John Siciliano · October 6, 2017 11:09 pm

Test scores are not a definitive indicator of future success. College is. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

School choice works — just ask the college students

Kevin Chavous · October 6, 2017 4:01 am

Moving at 10 mph north-northwest over eastern Honduras, the storm is bringing heavy rainfall across Central America, even along the Pacific coast side, according to the National Hurricane Center. (National Hurricane Center)

Tropical Storm Nate heads toward US but its future remains shrouded in uncertainty

Daniel Chaitin · October 6, 2017 1:22 am

Opponents of school choice should know that children in the program disproportionately come from families with low incomes and, before joining the program, were mostly at bad public schools and did poorly on tests. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

The dam holding back school choice will soon collapse

Washington Examiner · October 2, 2017 4:01 am

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that her state "objects" to Simpson returning to Florida to serve parole after he is released from a Nevada prison. (AP Photo/Joe Reedy)

Florida AG Pam Bondi: O.J. Simpson not welcome in the Sunshine State

Mandy Mayfield · September 30, 2017 8:26 pm

Idaho's Obamacare customers will face an average 27 percent premium increase next year because of too many sick customers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Idaho faces 27 percent increase in Obamacare rates next year

Robert King · September 29, 2017 7:04 pm

Tax cuts have nothing to do with "corporate greed"; they have everything to do with job creators creating more jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dear Congress: My cookie business could use a tax cut right about now

Joseph Semprevivo · September 29, 2017 4:01 am