County Mayor Heather Carruthers held another Facebook Live COVID-19 Q&A earlier this week, just one days after the Keys began
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Not since the Great Depression has food insecurity been so acute in the Florida Keys, and the SOS Foundation, founded
Read MoreKey West’s City Manager, Greg Veliz, announced this morning that the city has reopened parks, beaches and recreation facilities to
Read MoreThis morning we learned a few things during the countywide Covid-19 conference. Representatives from all Florida Keys municipalities, the Department
Read Moreby Naja Girard… “We have to figure out a different way,” Commissioner Sylvia Murphy said before the vote. “Something that
Read MoreWe 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?
Read MoreThe good news is three of the seven Florida Keys residents who have been hospitalized at some point during their illness have recovered.
Read MoreIf you are interested in viewing/listening/participating in the Wednesday April 15th Board of County Commissioners meeting here’s how:
Read MoreGuest Editorial by John Donnelly, After the dust settles, it will be found the analytical reasoning and stringent evidence gathering
Read MoreAt about 3:45 this afternoon County employees got the bad news. A half-hour later local news media was querying County
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