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Senator Scott visits Fort Myers Beach after Helene [Video]

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — As the community of Fort Myers Beach continues to grapple with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Senator Rick Scott visited Lee County to assess the situation and assured people they will get help from the federal government.

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Rick Scott: ‘Water is what’s killing us,’ urges coastal safety during Fort Myers Beach visit

“I will work with Congress members to ensure that FEMA funding is available for people affected by the hurricane,” Scott said.

He emphasized the need for a new perspective on storm preparedness.

“We all watch and say it’s a category one—that doesn’t sound very bad—or a category three,” Senator Scott said. “It’s really not the categories anymore; the wind is not what’s killing us; it’s the water that’s killing us.”

We returned to the neighborhood we visited before the stormwhere we met David McPhail, owner of Westoration and a mitigation specialist. He surveyed the damage on Seminole way and believes this street …

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Liberty Lake Centennial Trail access to close for construction [Video]

LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. The Harvard Road Trailhead and Centennial Trail access in Liberty Lake will close starting Monday for construction. According to the city, the closures will allow construction workers to build a new bathroom facility, improve the parking lot and enhance the trail access with bike racks, an EV charging station and a

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Paths Home New London Housing Commission 11/14/24 YCN Now [Video]

In June of 2024 the Town of New London received a Housing Opportunity Planning Grant (HOP) from the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority in the amount of $103,000. Over the next year and a half this funding will provide a valuable opportunity to study existing land uses, demographics, land use regulations, and existing housing types

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Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new 'Department of Government Efficiency' [Video]

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead a new Department of Government Efficiency" which is not, despite the name, a government agency.The acronym DOGE is a nod to Musk's favorite cryptocurrency, dogecoin. Trump said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy will work from outside the government to offer the White House advice and guidance and will partner with the Office of Management and Budget to drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before. He added that the move would shock government systems.It's not clear how the organization will operate. It could come under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which dictates how external groups that advise the government must operate and be accountable to the public.Federal employees are generally required to disclose their assets and entanglements to ward off any potential conflicts of interest, and to divest significant holdings relating to their work. Because Musk and Ramaswamy would not be formal federal workers, they would not face those requirements or ethical limitations.Musk posted on X: Department of Government Efficiency. The merch will be (fire emojis). Later he added: Threat to democracy? Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY!!!Musk has been a constant presence at Mar-a-Lago since Trump won the presidential election.The president-elect has often said he would give Musk a formal role overseeing a group akin to a blue-ribbon commission that would recommend ways to slash spending and make the federal government more efficient. Musk at one point suggested he could find more than $2 trillion in savings nearly a third of total annual government spending.Trump had made clear that Musk would likely not hold any kind of full-time position, given his other commitments.I dont think I can get him full-time because hes a little bit busy sending rockets up and all the things he does, Trump said at a rally in Michigan in September. He said the waste in this country is crazy. And were going to get Elon Musk to be our cost cutter.Ramaswamy suspended his campaign in January and threw his support behind Trump.Trump said in his statement the two will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies."