On May 21st Adam Bounds, who was shot 3 times inside his houseboat by FWC Captain David Dipre during an October 15th welfare check, was arrested for attempted arson and threatening a law enforcement officer. Bounds has since been released on bond. Today we received an unredacted copy of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office’s May 20th probable cause statement.
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The governor of the state of New York just initiated an interesting program: over the next nine months he invites every community in his state to “put pen to paper” and propose what kind of police force they want. “It’s not that government gives us their vision of what the police should look like because we have government’s vision of what the police should look like: It’s called the current police.” He wants to hear what ideas the people have to propose. Now that is a great idea. Why couldn’t the Keys and Key West do the same?
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In memory of George Floyd, Eric Garner, our own Charles Eimers, and sadly to also honor the others whose names
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Dear Editor: A well-staffed well run emergency operation leaves employees on the clock no more than 12 hours a day.
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by Arnaud and Naja Girard On Wednesday May 20th the Board of County Commissioners gathered to discuss the county’s emergency
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by Arnaud and Naja Girard One month after the Keys shut down due to the Covid-19 epidemic, residents were stunned
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Guest Editorial by John Donnelly There’s a steady stream of compelling scientific research and evidence that identifies in detail the
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Not since the Great Depression has food insecurity been so acute in the Florida Keys, and the SOS Foundation, founded
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Monroe County Mayor Heather Carruthers asked county and municipal leaders to recommend community members to volunteer for task forces to
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Key West’s City Manager, Greg Veliz, announced this morning that the city has reopened parks, beaches and recreation facilities to
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This morning Monroe County Emergency Management Director, Shannon Weiner, held her weekly countywide COVID-19 coordinating meeting. Department of Health Administrator,
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by Naja Girard “My son is in jail for violation of probation with the initial charge of a small amount
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This morning we learned a few things during the countywide Covid-19 conference. Representatives from all Florida Keys municipalities, the Department
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Several readers have asked us to plot the numbers for specific areas in the Keys that are seeing the largest number of positive novel coronavirus cases. These areas are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 compared with other areas of the Keys for different reasons. Key West, of course, with its larger population and which had thousands of visitors coming in daily by air, car and boat would be expected to have the largest share of positive cases and does. But the Upper Keys areas of Key Largo and Tavernier have a relatively high percentage of cases compared to other islands.
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Monroe County Mayor Heather Carruthers conducted another Facebook Live COVID-19 Q&A today. She address many resident concerns and spoke specifically about when and how the County will make decisions on “opening up” the Keys. You can watch the full video above. We have also transcribed a good portion of what was said for you below:
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by Naja Girard… “We have to figure out a different way,” Commissioner Sylvia Murphy said before the vote. “Something that
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Bob Eadie, Administrator of the Monroe County Department of Health, told the Board of County Commissioners today that it was
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We hear it every day. “Social distancing is working. We’re flattening the curve!”
We’ve been keeping a spreadsheet with all the Monroe County coronavirus case and testing data that the Florida Department of Health provides each day. It’s now been 26 days since the first COVID-19 case was officially reported in the Keys (on March 20th). We were curious to see what those numbers would look like when we plugged them into graphs. What does “our curve” look like? Is it indeed flattening as a result of all our efforts at social distancing?
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The April 21st Key West City Commission meeting will be conducted virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis.
Here’s how you can participate in the meeting which begins at 5 p.m.:
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The good news is three of the seven Florida Keys residents who have been hospitalized at some point during their illness have recovered.
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