WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Democratic U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel is bringing a South Florida woman who credits the Affordable Care Act with saving her life to Washington Tuesday night as a guest to watch President Donald Trump’s speech before the joint session of Congress, in hopes of pushing Republicans not to repeal the contentious federal health insurance law. Frankel, of Boca Raton, said 55-year-old Sherry Riggs lost her health insurance after a divorce, and immediately signed up for coverage in Fl...
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By Greg Allen, NPR For the third week in a row, President Trump is spending the weekend in Florida at Mar-a-Lago. It seems Trump enjoys spending time at the club he owns in Palm Beach, but since the election, his stays there have raised issues not seen when he was a private citizen. They involve security and the impact his visits are having on people and businesses in Palm Beach. At Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana, just 6 miles from Mar-a-Lago, the situation is dire. For the fifth week...
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Rep. Lois Frankel, D-FL, joins MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin to explain why she believes there needs to be changes to the gun laws after the recent attack at the airport in Fort Lauderdale. Watch full TV interview here.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/broward-politics-blog/sfl-lois-frankel-gets-gavel-women-20170106-story.html The gavel was passed Thursday night to the new co-chairwoman of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women’s Issues. The Democratic co-chairwoman is U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, who represents parts of Palm Beach County. (As of Tuesday, when the new Congress was sworn in, Frankel no longer represents any of Broward County. The parts of Broward that used to be Frankel territory and...
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Everglades advocates and members of Congress voiced hope Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump will support billions of dollars’ worth of projects to restore Florida’s “River of Grass,” which supplies drinking water to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and more than 7 million people. While campaigning in Florida, Trump expressed support for restoring “the beautiful Everglades” and for repairing the Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee. Three Palm Beach County members of Congress and Everglade...
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/technology/fl-fau-freight-institute-grant-20161214-story.html Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is slated to receive $10.5 million in federal, state and private sector funding to find ways to improve freight transportation in Florida and elsewhere around the nation. On Wednesday, local leaders joined FAU officials in announcing the university's award of a $1.4 million annual grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which will be matched by st...
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Editorial: New guidelines offer hope for clampdown on sober homes Delray Beach is wasting little time. Just days after the release of revised federal guidelines, Delray officials have begun revising several ordinances meant to curb the spread of sober homes — the first action by a local government in a long time to control the proliferation of group houses for recovering drug addicts that have overwhelmed neighborhoods in Delray and other towns in South Florida. Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstei...
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Editorial: A Potential Antidote to Sober House Problem Thanks to U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, South Florida cities can make a new fight against the proliferation of sober homes that are damaging traditional neighborhoods and draining budgets. Last week, the departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued an updated joint statement on local regulation of group homes under the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act. The key portion states that while local governm...
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