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With the coronavirus pandemic overshadowing everything, the 2020 year in politics was unlike anything before. Many of the major political trends that emerged in South Florida will continue reverberating well past January's swearing in of a new Congress and inauguration of Joe Biden as president.
- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a tumultuous 2020, with his response to the coronavirus pandemic eating into his once-high approval numbers. And now the Republican governor faces 2021 without his stalwart ally President Donald Trump in the White House and Democrat Joe Biden taking over.
- “A mess. A grand jury says Florida’s mental health system is an unfunded disaster. We’ve know this for more than a decade. It’s past time for DeSantis, lawmakers to act,
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Where’s the mail? Who’s the boss? And why so critical of Trump and DeSantis? | Letters to the Editor
The mail is taking way too long to arrive, writes one Sun Sentinel letter writer. Another questions the criticisms of President Trump and Gov. DeSantis on their responses to the pandemic. - The first case of the new, highly-contagious COVID-19 variant has been confirmed in Florida. The Florida Department of Health announced the case on Twitter, and said the person infected with the variant is a man in his 20s in Martin County with no history of travel.
- The chaotic administration of the first dose of COVID vaccines in Florida has led to concerns about how people will receive their second dose — and if there is enough vaccine to go around.
- The end of 2020 marks the end of greyhound racing in Florida, and many at the Palm Beach Kennel Club are greatly disappointed.
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- President Trump is cutting short his Florida holiday vacation and returning to Washington on Thursday.
- Nationwide, 298 law enforcement officers and dogs were considered to have died in the line of duty, more than double the 148 that died in 2019.
- Casey Anthony filed paperwork this month to start a private investigation company in West Palm Beach, state business records show.
- With his decision to jump five million older Floridians to the front of the Covid-19 vaccine line, Gov. Ron DeSantis has over-promised and under-delivered. Now he must fix this problem of his own making.
- Frustrated South Florida seniors jammed phone lines and crashed the health department website on Wednesday as they tried to make appointments to get for a COVID vaccine. Broward Health stopped taking appointments by noon, saying it had reached its vaccine capacity through February.
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