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Rick Scott goes blue collar to clean up Tallahassee

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Gov. Rick Scott hit the streets of Tallahassee Wednesday, picking up piles of fallen tree limbs and other debris and tossing them into the beds of Florida Department of Transportation trucks for disposal. Wearing jeans, work gloves, and a Navy bill cap, his shirt sleeves rolled up, Scott got to work on the city’s southside, on a street lined with neat bungalows and big piles of detritus from Hurricane Hermine. “This is going to be a good day for the…

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Rick Scott rolling up sleeves for Tallahassee cleanup — literally

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Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday he personally would help clear debris in Tallahassee. On Wednesday, “I, along with agency heads, along with volunteers from the National Guard, along with veterans’ groups, we’re going to be out in Tallahassee in different places, and we’re going to be picking up debris,” Scott said in a news conference. “It’s clearly something we can do. And, hopefully, that will accelerate when people get their power back,” he said. “We need to clean up our…

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Joe Henderson: Hurricane Hermine leaves Category 5 mess in unprepared Tallahassee

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While city officials play those favored political parlor games of finger-pointing and pass-the-blame, thousands of residents remain without power. That’s all we ought to care about now. There are reports of price gouging. Large trees are down all over the city. People are steaming as they wonder about the competence of the power they have elected to office. Yes, folks, that is life in Tallahassee as residents there try to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Hermine. This Category 1…

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Florida still has more than 18,000 customers without power

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Florida still has more than 18,000 customers without electricity more than four days after Hurricane Hermine slammed into the state. State officials said Tuesday that more than 16,000 of those customers reside in Leon County, which is home to the state capital. The grinding pace of the recovery has caused a dustup between Gov. Rick Scott and Tallahassee officials. Scott has demanded that restoration efforts speed up, while Tallahassee officials have said Scott’s criticism is not helping state and local…

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Jack Latvala wants answers after Tallahassee’s Hermine experience

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State Sen. Jack Latvala on Tuesday said he is considering calling for legislative action next session to address the City of Tallahassee’s response to Hurricane Hermine. Latvala, a Clearwater Republican, is slated to be the next chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Specifically, he said he questions whether community-based power operations — such as City of Tallahassee Utilities — are positioned as well as they could be to recover after major storms. Hermine, a Category 1 hurricane at landfall, knocked out electric service…

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Power struggle? Tallahassee, state at odds in storm recovery

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The big question in Tallahassee is whether you have power, and whether you think local officials are to blame for the grinding pace of restoring electricity following Hurricane Hermine. The rising anger is playing out on social media and in the political sphere, with state and local leaders trading accusations about the slow pace of recovery. As of Monday afternoon, more than 26,000 customers in Leon County were still without power. That contrasts with other parts of the state where…

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Andrew Gillum confronts Rick Scott over Hermine response criticism

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Democratic Mayor Andrew Gillum of Tallahassee and Republican Gov. Rick Scott on Monday had a testy face-off over the speed of repair to the city’s electric system that was battered by Hurricane Hermine. On Sunday, Scott said in a press release that “the City of Tallahassee and Leon County have declined further ‘cut-and-toss’ assistance from (the Department of Transportation) to clear debris such as downed trees and fallen tree limbs. I continue to hear from residents that this is needed. FDOT stands…

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