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Breaking News: President Trump commuting the sentence of Roger Stone...... How about "revenue raisers" or in plain language "higher taxes" to deal with tax revenue shortfalls and recovery from the coronavirus situation? Government officials across the country beginning to broach the subject. Among them New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy..... A Kentucky judge's order putting a cloud over Democrat Governor Andy Beshear's mask (muzzle) order..... "Over the past several week I have been asked repeatedly about what the Town of Eagar plans to do about Covid-19, masks, visitors, riots etc. It is somewhat alarming how many expect and almost invite a...

With the recent formations of Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Fay in the Caribbean, many people are probably thinking that South Florida is not a great place to be during hurricane season. To the contrary, South Florida (counties ofDade, Broward, and Palm Beach) actually gets hit by very few major hurricanes. First let us look at the statistics. From 1926 when the Category 4 Miami Hurricane hit and destroyed the Florida land boom (humorously portrayed in the Marx Brothers film, "The Cocoanuts") until over twenty years later when the 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane landed, there were no major hurricanes in...

Tropical Storm Fay expected to strike Galveston 09/06/2002 Associated Press HOUSTON - Residents of Bolivar Peninsula and the west end of Galveston Island were urged to evacuate as Tropical Storm Fay slowly churned Friday toward the Texas coast, where it was expected to make landfall by the weekend. Galveston Mayor Roger "Bo" Quiroga asked warned residents that by dawn Friday, tides of 4 to 6 feet would begin lapping over Farm Road 3005, making difficult on the highway that traverses the length of the island. The low-pressure system in the Gulf officially became a tropical depression at 4 p.m....