Tuesday, August 29, 2023
COUNTY BY COUNTY: What to expect from Idalia around Tampa Bay
Spectrum Bay News 9 Weather Experts have broken down, by county, what to watch for as Idalia gets closer to landfall.....MORE
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Biden administration targets diabetes drug, blood thinner, others for Medicare price negotiations
A popular diabetes treatment and the blood thinner Eliquis are among the first drugs that will be targeted for price negotiations in effort to cut Medicare costs.
President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday released a list of 10 drugs for which the federal government will take a first-ever step: negotiating drug prices directly with the manufacturer.
More HERE
Google makes it easier to remove personal info
Google recently updated a powerful privacy feature called Results About You. The improvements make it even easier to find and remove your personal information from Google search results.
This can include information like your phone number, email and home address.
More HERE
Monday, August 28, 2023
The cost of inflation: Survey shows Floridians buy, eat less food due to rising food prices
Nearly a third of parents (29%) say they’ve had to cut back on fresh produce, with 21% saying they now consume more processed or fast foods.
Rising food prices are causing Florida families to reduce the amount of food they consume and choose less healthy options, a new survey from Farm Share found.
More HERE
Jacksonville shootings refocus attention on the city’s racism past and the struggle to move on
Jacksonville's racist past seemed to be losing its hold. But the racist killing of three Black people was a painful and startling reminder.
By some measures, Jacksonville was making strides to emerge from its racist past. But the killing of three Black people by a young, white shooter was a painful and startling reminder that the remnants of racism still fester in the Florida city.
More HERE
Florida Democrat: DeSantis has ‘blood on his hands’ after Jacksonville shooting
Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D) has issued a scathing rebuke of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s response to a white supremacist’s deadly rampage in Jacksonville this weekend.
Nixon, who represents the Jacksonville district where the shooting happened, told MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian on Sunday that DeSantis has been leading “an all-out attack on the Black community with his anti-woke policies” and because of this, the GOP presidential candidate is responsible for Saturday’s violence.
“This is a governor who has done nothing but fan these types of happenings throughout our state,” Nixon said. “At the end of the day, the governor has blood on his hands.”
More HERE
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Gov. DeSantis booed at Jacksonville prayer vigil for victims of mass shooting
The governor was in attendance along with the First Lady, Mayor Donna Deegan, and Sheriff T.K. Waters at the vigil honoring the three victims killed in the shooting.
Tropical Storm Idalia forecast to intensify, hurricane watch issued for Tampa Bay area
Tropical Storm Idalia is forecast to intensify into a hurricane on Monday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Officials said Tropical Storm Idalia is moving at 7 mph and is located about 150 miles south of the western tip of Cuba.
Meteorologists said Idalia’s winds are near 65 mph, with higher gusts.
More HERE
Tracking Idalia’s impacts in Tampa Bay
While it will feel more humid today in the Tampa Bay area, there will be no direct impacts from Tropical Storm Idalia today. Temperatures climb into the low 90s with a 60% chance of afternoon and evening downpours.
The rain bands from Idalia start arriving tomorrow afternoon as the system strengthens in the Gulf of Mexico.
Those bands will push from south to north, and wind gusts could reach 20-30 mph at times.
Idalia is expected to make landfall just north of the Tampa Bay area early Wednesday. Our strongest wind gusts will be overnight Tuesday and through Wednesday morning. An onshore wind flow combined with higher tides due to the super moon will lead to coastal flooding in many areas. Storm surge could reach 7-10 feet in Citrus & Hernando counties. The surge will be slightly lower for Pasco & Pinellas.
The storm races off the northeast after landfall Wednesday morning, and our wind quickly calms down. We are left with scattered afternoon storms Thursday and Friday, and it should be drier for the weekend.
Sunday, August 27, 2023
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DEATH WISH: Ron DeSantis and his contempt for senior citizens
Social security is at risk, and the conservative answer seems to be finding ways to avoid paying out to those senior citizens who’ve spent their lives paying in.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is again using life expectancy as an excuse to cut social security — though he’s now using the exact opposite argument from what he presented a decade ago. Back then, DeSantis suggested that with increasing life expectancy, social security must be cut, and now, he’s instead citing the shorter lifespans of today’s senior citizens.
More HERE
What Stogie Had For Lunch
Jerk Chicken
Rice and Beans and Cabbage
$6.49 Lunch Special
Hines Caribbean Cuisine
3313 N. Nebraska Ave, Ybor Heights
Tampa's Best Jamaican Food!
Medicare for All Florida: Virtual Town Hall
August 28th at 7:00 p.m. ET
Join us for a statewide panel of experts and a keynote speech by Rep. Maxwell Frost.
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Saturday, August 26, 2023
City Of Tampa Activating Sandbag Locations
The City of Tampa’s Emergency Management teams continue to monitor potential severe weather, which may impact the region within the next few days.
As a precaution, the City of Tampa is activating three sandbag distribution sites beginning Sunday, August 27, 2023.
Information HERE
New year at New College begins with change, confusion and many questions
Our visit to New College of Florida in Sarasota began at the dorms, where new students were still settling in and returning students were settling back into a new reality on campus. “Uh- scary, I think,” is how Marshall Bustamante described the start of his fourth and final year at New College. Just before the start of the semester, he learned earning his senior stripes no longer guaranteed him first choice at senior digs.
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