NASA Awards Information Technology Support Services Contract
NASA has selected New Directions Technologies Inc. of Ridgecrest, California, for management systems engineering, software development, project management, information technology security, and enterprise architecture support services for the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Ames Research Center in Calif
This Florida Monoclonal Antibody Clinic Is Maxed Out
Gerald Pierone, MD, gets regular phone calls from COVID-19 patients and their family members, asking for a spot at his monoclonal antibody clinic in Vero Beach, Florida. But as infections continue to surge throughout the state, the clinic is often full. “We are just being inundated with COVID patients now because of this Delta surge,”…
Most Florida Residents Polled Support School Mask Mandates As More Districts Oppose State Ban
Topline A majority of Florida adults approve of school mask mandates despite a state-level ban against them and do not support the state withholding funding from districts that require masks, a new Quinnipiac poll finds, as a growing number of Florida school districts have flouted the state policy in recent days to impose their own…
Poll: Most Florida voters don’t want DeSantis to run for president in 2024
Most Florida voters don’t want Gov. Ron DeSantisRon DeSantisMajority of Florida residents support requiring masks in schools Hochul makes New York the 31st state to have had a female governor The Memo: Boos for Trump show scale of vaccine challenge MORE (R) to run for president in 2024, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll…
Florida football slips out of top 3 for nation’s No. 1 recruit
Two and a half weeks ago, No. 1 recruit Walter Nolen named the Florida Gators in his top three schools. On Tuesday, Nolen tweeted a graphic that included Georgia instead of Florida. This is just the latest in what has been a rollercoaster of a recruiting process for the class of 2022’s best defensive lineman.…
Florida dad accused of pushing student, twisting her arm during school mask dispute
The father of a Florida high school student, who is known for protesting the district’s mask mandate, was charged Wednesday with child abuse after authorities said he pushed another student who took issue with his recording his latest anti-mask stunt.The man, Dan Bauman, was recording his daughter on his cellphone Wednesday morning as she tried…
Father Accused of Assaulting Girl at High School Over Face Mask Policy
A father in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been accused of shoving a female student at his daughter’s high school in an altercation stemming from his disapproval of the school board’s face mask policy.Dan Bauman, who had been trying to bring his daughter to Fort Lauderdale High School without a mask in protest of the policy,…
Florida’s summer COVID wave leaves Jacksonville gasping. ‘It’s like the floodgates broke open.’
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What’s causing worst die-off of manatees? Starvation from Florida ecosystem collapse…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Manatee deaths reported in the past half-century include nearly 5,000 from boat strikes, water structures and red tides. Across that span of mortalities tied to human activities, there has never been a die-off as gruesome as from December through May, when 677 carcasses were counted along Florida’s east coast. Half were…
Researcher helps collect key data to establish nine new protected areas in Peru
Catenazzi — an expert in frog ecology and conservation who has helped identify and describe 45 new species — was on the biological rapid inventory team that documented amphibians and reptiles. Credit: Florida International University Florida International University (FIU) researcher Alessandro Catenazzi has helped gather the critical information needed to expedite the establishment of nine…
