Manatee County to host hurricane prep town halls (Source: source:KSLA.com) By ABC7 Staff | May 11, 2021 at 9:55 AM EDT - Updated May 11 at 9:55 AM
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - For the second consecutive year, Manatee County residents will have an opportunity to receive important preparation information for the 2021 Hurricane Season directly from county commissioners and public safety experts.
Each of Manatee County’s seven county commissioners will host a video conference with Emergency Management Chief Steve Litschauer and Public Safety Director Jacob Saur beginning May 24.
In addition to the seven town halls, three Manatee County cities will host similar town halls with Litschauer and Saur. After officials relay preparation tips, lines will be open for questions from the public.
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Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 3.1.21
With apologies to the late, great
Tim Russert ⦠The top three issues facing the 2021 Florida Legislature are COVID, COVID, COVID.
Itâs no surprise that just about everything that will happen during the 60-day Session will be directly or indirectly related to the pandemic or influenced by the countless ways it has changed life in our state.
From health care policy to the budget, from education policy to the environment, the Session will seem like all COVID-19, all the time. Even where legislation doesnât directly link to COVID-19 â say, school choice â lawmakers will be factoring in what it will cost in a pandemic-battered economy or how it will help kids whose schooling was turned upside down.
The media’s rubber mallet has been bonking them over the head for a month now, but they always seem to pop back up through a different hole of deception.
All you can do is plop another token into the game of Manatee County Commission Whac-A-Mole and continue bashing. Not because it’s fun, but because it’s necessary for a democracy to exist, and through every fault of their own they now have more bumps on their heads than they can rub.
The Bradenton Herald did the residents of Manatee County a tremendous service recently by exposing that Commission Chair Vanessa Baugh indeed had a personal list of five people she wanted to be vaccinated ahead of so many others who played by the rules and signed up for the countywide lottery. Included on the list: Herself. And four of her friends. She (kind of) apologized and then blamed (of course) the media.