CONNECT WITH:A1 Top StoryCorruptionLobbyingmiamiREAD 1 CommentBy Francisco Alvarado, FloridaBulldog.orgEven as Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was put in handcuffs Thursday for bribery and other charges, members of his city staff were the focus of a separate investigation that found they were part of a scheme in which they did paid campaign work for Diaz de la Portilla’s brother while on the taxpayer’s dime.Yet, they won’t be facing criminal misdemeanor charges for violating a state law that prohibits government employees from double-dipping – engaging in political campaigning...…CONNECT WITH:A1 Top StoryCorruptionLobbyingmiamiREAD 1 CommentBy Francisco Alvarado, FloridaBulldog.orgEven as Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was put in handcuffs Thursday for bribery and other charges, members of his city staff were the focus of a separate investigation that found they were part of a scheme in which they did paid campaign work for Diaz de la Portilla’s brother while on the taxpayer’s dime.Yet, they won’t be facing criminal misdemeanor charges for violating a state law that prohibits government employees from double-dipping – engaging in political campaigning...WW…

THE NEW WUHAN?Hospitals across Florida are in the thick of New York-level chaos, and health-care workers believe the worst is yet to come.IAMI—At the epicenter of the in the United States and the world, physicians and nurses in besieged are struggling to keep up with a tidal wave of new cases.Despite what their Republican governor keeps saying, nothing about what Floridians are experiencing seems run-of-the-mill or likely to improve any time soon. If anything, experts and medical workers in the state say, the worst is yet to come.“The past two weeks [have] been crazier than at the beginning...…THE NEW WUHAN?Hospitals across Florida are in the thick of New York-level chaos, and health-care workers believe the worst is yet to come.IAMI—At the epicenter of the in the United States and the world, physicians and nurses in besieged are struggling to keep up with a tidal wave of new cases.Despite what their Republican governor keeps saying, nothing about what Floridians are experiencing seems run-of-the-mill or likely to improve any time soon. If anything, experts and medical workers in the state say, the worst is yet to come.“The past two weeks [have] been crazier than at the beginning...WW…

LUCKY STARSFrom claims of flagrant partisan favoritism to fears of getting sick in long lines, the rollout is not going smoothly in a state where the governor’s COVID skepticism is legendary.IAMI—On Christmas Eve, Dr. Jeff Lowenkron, a top doctor in , delivered an ominous holiday message to residents about the spread of coronavirus in Florida’s most .As the chief medical officer for The Villages Health, a health-care provider that operates six clinics in the sprawling central Florida development, Lowenkron has access to real-time stats about new cases and hospitalizations. According to his...…LUCKY STARSFrom claims of flagrant partisan favoritism to fears of getting sick in long lines, the rollout is not going smoothly in a state where the governor’s COVID skepticism is legendary.IAMI—On Christmas Eve, Dr. Jeff Lowenkron, a top doctor in , delivered an ominous holiday message to residents about the spread of coronavirus in Florida’s most .As the chief medical officer for The Villages Health, a health-care provider that operates six clinics in the sprawling central Florida development, Lowenkron has access to real-time stats about new cases and hospitalizations. According to his...WW…

On Saturday, and leaders turned the backyard of the governor’s mansion into a GOP gloatfest with a pandemic twist.Some of the top players in the party that has in the Sunshine State tweeted photos and a video of DeSantis addressing a crowd of roughly 50 GOP grassroots organizers. Almost no one appeared to be wearing masks—including DeSantis, who had appeared with a mask at in D.C. on Tuesday.One of the images, by Florida Republican Party Vice-Chairman Christian Ziegler, shows a maskless DeSantis from behind, facing his guests, a majority of whom were elderly—a population at especially high...…On Saturday, and leaders turned the backyard of the governor’s mansion into a GOP gloatfest with a pandemic twist.Some of the top players in the party that has in the Sunshine State tweeted photos and a video of DeSantis addressing a crowd of roughly 50 GOP grassroots organizers. Almost no one appeared to be wearing masks—including DeSantis, who had appeared with a mask at in D.C. on Tuesday.One of the images, by Florida Republican Party Vice-Chairman Christian Ziegler, shows a maskless DeSantis from behind, facing his guests, a majority of whom were elderly—a population at especially high...WW…

A nation battered by the trudged to the on Tuesday with an eerie sense that no matter how they felt or what they hoped, the United States could easily in the name of its next president.Contrary to bogus claims from President Donald Trump, any delay in determining the winner will stem from the need to ensure votes are counted, not mass fraud. But if Tuesday might typically have marked the end of a raucous election season, one that saw historic surges in early voting in the face of a public health crisis that has killed over 230,000 Americans, any sense of closure by night’s end was difficult...…A nation battered by the trudged to the on Tuesday with an eerie sense that no matter how they felt or what they hoped, the United States could easily in the name of its next president.Contrary to bogus claims from President Donald Trump, any delay in determining the winner will stem from the need to ensure votes are counted, not mass fraud. But if Tuesday might typically have marked the end of a raucous election season, one that saw historic surges in early voting in the face of a public health crisis that has killed over 230,000 Americans, any sense of closure by night’s end was difficult...WW…

MIAMI—For nearly an hour on Monday, Alan Herrera stood in a line to cast his early vote for Joe Biden in the heart of one of Donald Trump’s Latino strongholds. The 33-year-old Honduran American slowly inched closer to the entrance of the John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah, a predominantly Cuban American city in the coveted swing state of Florida where the president and the former vice president appear neck-and-neck in various polls.About a dozen people ahead of Herrera waited their turn to go inside the early voting precinct. Roughly three dozen more voters stood behind him, lining the...…MIAMI—For nearly an hour on Monday, Alan Herrera stood in a line to cast his early vote for Joe Biden in the heart of one of Donald Trump’s Latino strongholds. The 33-year-old Honduran American slowly inched closer to the entrance of the John F. Kennedy Library in Hialeah, a predominantly Cuban American city in the coveted swing state of Florida where the president and the former vice president appear neck-and-neck in various polls.About a dozen people ahead of Herrera waited their turn to go inside the early voting precinct. Roughly three dozen more voters stood behind him, lining the...WW…