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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature will meet next week for a special session on property insurance and property tax relief in the wake of damage caused by Hurricane Ian, officials announced Tuesday. The leaders of the Florida House and Senate issued the proclamation convening the Legislature from Dec. 12 to 16. Lawmakers will be tasked with reforming elements of the state's troubled property insurance market, providing tax or other financial relief related to damage from Hurricanes Ian and Nicole, and creating a toll credit program for frequent Florida commuters. The session comes as Florida's property insurance market has dealt with billions of dollars in losses, rising prices for consumers and insurer insolvencies, even before the powerful Hurricane Ian slammed into the state in September and caused widespread damage. Next week's special session will be the second time the Florida Legislature met this year to address issues in the property insurance market. … [Read more...] about Florida lawmakers set to meet on ailing insurance market

Click here to read the full article. Variety is excited to announce the speakers for its annual Virtual FYC Fest , set to premiere on Dec. 15 featuring a half day of panels with the top contending actors, directors and producers for this year’s awards season. Steven Spielberg will be participating in a panel with Kristie Macosko (producer), Janusz Kaminski (cinematographer), Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn (editors), Rick Carter (production designer), Mark Bridges (costume designer) and Gary Rydstrom (re-recording mixer/sound designer/supervising sound editor) to discuss working together on “The Fabelmans”. More from Variety With 'Wakanda Forever,' Ryan Coogler Centers Women in Front of and Behind the Camera When Art Breaks Your Heart: How 'The Fabelmans' Captures Creative Obsession (Guest Column) Oscar Predictions: Best Director - Could S.S. Rajamouli Be This Year's International Director Selection for 'RRR?' Ryan Coogler will participate in a … [Read more...] about Ryan Coogler, Bill Hader, Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg Set for Variety FYC Fest

0 Politics & Government Barnes said that his campaign for the U.S. Senate performed better than many gave it credit for. Wisconsin Examiner , News Partner Posted Reply By Isiah Holmes, Wisconsin Examiner November 9, 2022 Over a year ago Wisconsin’s Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes announced his campaign for U.S. senator at the Sherman Phoenix Marketplace, a hub of Black small businesses in Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood. It was here Barnes chose to end his campaign Wednesday afternoon, conceding to Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Barnes was joined by a crowd of supporters including his parents, Democratic leaders, community organizers and supporters. “Obviously this is not the speech that I wanted to give,” Barnes told the crowd, “but I still cannot thank you all enough for being there with me every step of the way.” The race between Barnes and Johnson, who is going on to serve a third term as senator, ended by a tight … [Read more...] about Mandela Barnes Concedes To Ron Johnson After Losing By 1%

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for December 6 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A stubborn weather pattern has set up across the nation’s midsection. DESANTIS SAYS FEMA DENIED EMERGENCY AID REQUEST, STATE WILL PROVIDE $25M FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS Forecast high temperatures across the South on Tuesday (Credit: Fox News) It is expected to bring heavy rain and possible flooding from the central Plains to the Tennessee Valley over the next few days. Rainfall forecast through Friday over the Tennessee Valley (Credit: Fox News) Warmer-than-average temperatures will break records over the South and along the East Coast. The next storm in the eastern U.S. on Friday (Credit: Fox News) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Meanwhile, cold air and accumulating snow will spread over the Rockies and into the northern … [Read more...] about Stubborn weather pattern to bring rain, flooding to nation’s midsection

LONDON — Oh, for a wizard’s spell that would allow me to tell you everything, and then erase it completely from your memory. But though I paid rapt attention during the afternoon and evening I spent at “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” which opened in a blaze of outrageous enchantment on Monday night at the Palace Theater here, I failed to pick up on any recipe for inducing post-tell-all amnesia in Muggles, which is Potter-speak for nonwizards like you and me. This eagerly anticipated, two-part, five-hour-plus sequel to J. K. Rowling’s best-selling, seven-volume series of “Harry Potter” novels is the kind of play that you want to describe in detail, if only to help you figure out how it achieves what is does. That would be a kind of magic that is purely theatrical yet somehow channels the addictive narrative grip of Ms. Rowling’s prose. Unfortunately, those who have scored tickets to this two-part production, which is sold out through May, are given buttons as they leave … [Read more...] about Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Casts a Spell Onstage

It is a continuing astonishment to many a sensible adult that anyone who survived adolescence takes Ayn Rand seriously. Yet admirers of this creator of fat, hyperventilating novels, which extolled “the virtue of selfishness” and the capitalist superhero, have filled conservative power lists for decades. Those said to take counsel these days from her feverish portraits of egomaniacs at the top include Paul Ryan; Ron and Rand Paul; and the current president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. You may be surprised to learn that this roster has come to include the daring Tony-winning director Ivo van Hove, a creator of productions that might well provoke cries of puritanical censure from the Senate floor. Yet on the evidence of his adaptation of Rand’s breakthrough novel, “The Fountainhead” (1943), which opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Tuesday night, she has seldom had a better advocate. Not, I hasten to add, for her ferocious vision of free-market fundamentalism, … [Read more...] about Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp