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		<title>Exclusive: Major Puerto Rico power restoration project awarded to small, untested vendor </title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Schorsch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2017 11:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, FloridaPolitics.com learned the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) — per the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) guidance — has selected a tiny, two-man company with fewer than two years of experience and merely $1 million in annual revenue to repair its massive and critical 230KV electricity transmission line. After hitting Puerto Rico Sept. 20, the powerful Category 4 storm – the most powerful to reach the island in nearly&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Donald Trump in Puerto Rico, lauds administration’s relief effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the ground in Puerto Rico nearly two weeks after a hurricane ravaged the island, President Donald Trump heaped praise Tuesday on his administration’s relief workers and, more selectively, Puerto Rican officials after earlier dismissing critics of the federal response as “politically motivated ingrates.” Trump told officials and relief workers assembled in an airplane hangar that the low death toll from Hurricane Maria — he was told 16 or 17 — was a tribute to the relief efforts. “We’ve saved&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Darren Soto lands in Puerto Rico</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Rufty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 12:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, the first congressman of Puerto Rican heritage from Florida, just landed in San Juan within the hour. “I am heading to the Emergency Operations Center to get a helicopter tour of the Island and to meet with local elected officials,” the Orlando Democrat said. Many news reports have cited villages and rural areas completely cut off following the direct hit from Hurricane Maria. “There is obvious devastation including major building damage. Roads still have debris blocking, and&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>San Juan mayor in hurricane spotlight after Donald Trump tweets</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Puerto Rico’s hurricane-ravaged capital, it seems Carmen Yulin Cruz is everywhere these days: handing out bags of ice, wading through chest-deep floodwaters, hugging people in need of comfort. Cruz has long won attention across the island for her hands-on style of leadership in San Juan. But this week she rose to international prominence as a target of Twitter attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump — including one tweet Sunday calling her and others “politically motivated ingrates.” The insult came&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Incoming Puerto Rican students eligible for free school meals</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff Reports]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam announced Friday that Puerto Rican students displaced by Hurricane Maria will be able to get free school meals through the National School Lunch Program. That&#8217;s &#8220;in response to the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico and in preparation for an influx of evacuees,&#8221; Putnam&#8217;s office said in a release. Since 2012, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has overseen the state’s school nutrition programs. &#8220;Federal laws allow students in households evacuating a designated disaster area access&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill Nelson: Puerto Rico response must ramp up now or drastic measures coming</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott Powers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 19:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The situation in Hurricane Maria-ravaged Puerto Rico is so bleak that the military response needs to shift from talk to all-out action today or &#8220;drastic measures&#8221; will have to be taken, Florida&#8217;s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson declared in Orlando Wednesday. &#8220;This is a disaster of gargantuan proportions,&#8221; Nelson said. Speaking at the Acacia Puerto Rican Center in Orlando, and surrounded by numerous local Central Florida Puerto Rican community and political leaders, Democrats, Republicans and independents, Nelson lashed out at&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Republicans question Bill Nelson over fundraising from Hurricane Irma</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Schorsch]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Rahm Emanuel once said: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Bill Nelson may be taking that advice to heart. This week, Florida’s senior U.S. Senator sent out a fundraising email featuring Hurricane Irma, the Category 3 storm that devastated much of Nelson’s own state. “As Irma approached, I quickly called on the airlines to cap their fares at a reasonable rate, and I’m going to continue to fight to make sure the traveling public is treated fairly&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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