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Lawmakers directed $91.1 million to hometown health and human services projects, including clinics, meal-delivery programs and a hurricane center. Not all will make it past the finish line. Gov. Ron DeSantis, aiming to curtail spending amid the COVID-19 pandemic, used his veto pen last year to wipe out $44 million in health care-related projects inserted into the budget by state lawmakers.
The question is whether he will do it again this year as the state’s financial picture has improved.
An analysis of the health and human services portion of the budget obtained by The News Service of Florida shows that lawmakers this year were able to direct $91.1 million to hometown projects, including money for hospital clinics, meal-delivery programs for homebound people and a hurricane center for The Arc of the St Johns.
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Lack of workers causes crisis at South Florida restaurants
Business owners blame unemployment for lack of qualified applicants
In a growing regional trend, a lack of workers is causing logistical problems for South Florida businesses, and the sectors hardest hit in Palm Beach County are restaurants and hotels.
and last updated 2021-05-03 19:10:40-04
JUPITER, Fla. â In a growing regional trend, a lack of workers is causing logistical problems for South Florida businesses, and the sectors hardest hit in Palm Beach County are restaurants and hotels.
No Workers, No Service
WPTV NewsChannel 5 talked to frustrated business owners all over South Florida, and they are all dealing with the same crippling business issue.
With so much carnage, it is also easy to lose hope. Gun control can seem pointless given the number of guns already on the streets. And here in Florida, lawmakers seem intent on flooding every area of public life with firearms. The Legislature just passed a measure to allow people with concealed weapons licenses to pack heat at churches that share properties with schools, of all places.
Reform-minded Americans shouldn’t give up. But stopping gun violence might require a change in strategy. Instead of gun control, ammo control is another option. The National Rifle Association might have a point when it says that “guns don’t kill people” after all, it’s the bullets they fire that do the damage.
Pass ammo control to prevent gun violence The Gainesville Sun Editorial Board © Mike Chapman/Record Searchlight Ammunition sits on a shelf inside the Jones Fort gun shop on East Cypress Avenue in Redding on Thursday, March 4, 2021. Ammunition is in short supply and the store has a purchase limit on bullets.
The United States is awash with weapons 393 million privately owned firearms, or more guns than people living in the country, according to a global survey of gun ownership.
With the massive number of firearms comes another shameful distinction: The rate of gun deaths in the U.S. far exceeds most countries in Europe, Asia and other places that strictly regulate gun sales. The number of deaths is so overwhelming that only mass shootings tend to be widely reported.
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