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The cold front has brought gusty winds to the greater Tampa Bay region and will cause temperatures to plummet Monday night into Tuesday morning.
Health News Florida
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The AARP’s state director Jeff Johnson spoke to WMFE’s Joe Byrnes about nursing homes and long term care facilities, and other issues that could affect seniors this session. -
KHN illustrationMany hospitals are dealing with a flood of people with COVID, including those primarily admitted for other reasons. These infections still drain the workforce and can put health workers and other patients at higher risk for contracting the virus.
Coronavirus: Need To Know
Coverage from WUSF.
Politics / Issues
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Floridaredistricting.gov/Republican redistricting leaders say the process they’ve employed has generated maps that meet all state and federal requirements. Still, they say they expect legal challenges to the maps when they’re approved.
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Ted S. Warren/APJust 18% of 5- to 11-year-olds are fully vaccinated, with rates varying significantly across the country, a KHN analysis of federal data shows. Pediatricians say the slow pace and geographic disparities are alarming.
Host Steve Newborn and political reporter William March discuss the highlights of Gov. Ron DeSantis's speech.
Coverage from our coverage partners and WUSF.
Your Voices
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Seth Wenig/AP/APHealth News Florida is reporting on staffing shortages in nursing homes and assisted living facilities and we'd like to hear from you.
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Daylina Miller/WUSF Public MediaWUSF Public Media is asking members of the trans, nonbinary and gender noncomforming community to tell us what trans joy means to them.
Climate change is impacting so much around us. How have you experienced climate change over time?
Local / State
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Get ready for the Gasparilla children's parade and annual pirate invasion the following week with parade routes, viewing locations, and event schedules. -
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Pink Martini, the self- described "little orchestra" also refers to themselves as “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” meets “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” They're performing in St. Petersburg on Jan. 18.
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Tom Brady threw for 271 yards and two touchdowns and Mike Evans had 117 yards receiving to lead the defending Super Bowl champions.
WUSF, in collaboration with the Florida Climate Reporting Network, is bringing you stories on how climate change is affecting you.
Our ongoing coverage of the phosphate industry and its impact on the state.
NPR
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Courtesy of Speech MorphingThanks to advances in artificial intelligence, it's never been easier or more affordable to make a perfect facsimile of a human voice: a celebrity, a world leader or even a public-radio reporter.
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Laurent Emmanuel/AFP via Getty ImagesAfter years of legal wrangling, the sprawling Roman villa filled with masterpieces from antiquity to the Renaissance will hit the auction block Tuesday with a starting price of $534 million.
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would. have turned 93 on Jan. 15. He was just 39 when he was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tenn.
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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with civil rights activists about what it was like to fight for the Voting Rights Act in the 1960s — and the rights that are in jeopardy now.
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The Red Cross has, for the first time, declared a national blood donation crisis. Some hospitals say they're rationing blood products. And blood banks are scrambling to encourage donations.
WUSF Public Media is joining a national service corps dedicated to strengthening local journalism.
WUSF is reporting on how distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine exposes inequities in Florida’s health care system.
Environment
Education
WUSF wins three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
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