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• The Federal Emergency Management Agency is facing a second federal lawsuit relating to its response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. 90.7’s Crystal Chavez reports this suit is calling for FEMA to release records relating to its actions before and after the disaster.
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• A judge has again ordered an extension of FEMA’s temporary shelter program for displaced Puerto Ricans. The judge is giving families until midnight August 6 to stay in hotels. That means checkout would be on August 7.
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• Ariana Colón doesn’t know where she will be living at the end of this month. She is one of more than 1,000 families across the country and in Puerto Rico still checked in hotels paid for by FEMA. 324 of those families are in Florida. A federal judge extended the temporary housing until July 23 for Hurricane Maria Evacuees.
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• A judge has stopped FEMA from ending its housing assistance program for Puerto Rican families displaced by hurricane Maria. The move comes after advocates filed a lawsuit against FEMA to extend the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program.
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• Nearly 200 high school seniors who left Puerto Rico for central Florida after Hurricane Maria still got to walk the stage although with a new set of peers. 90.7’s Crystal Chavez checked in with the local school districts that took in the most student evacuees.
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• Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is calling on islanders displaced by Hurricane Maria to take their frustrations to the polls in November.
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• A number of United Methodist churches in central Florida churches are donating some or all of their Christmas offerings to families who fled Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
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• Some members of central Florida’s congressional delegation are calling for more help for Puerto Rico.
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• More than 200,000 Puerto Ricans have fled the island since Hurricane Maria, with many choosing to call central Florida home. Welcome centers at the airport and beyond have been helping new arrivals with housing, health care and employment. Step one is rebuilding their lives. But already some community organizers, politicians and others are wondering how these new arrivals will affect Florida politics.
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• More than two thousand families fleeing Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria have visited Osceola County’s welcome center since it opened in early October. For our ongoing series, “The Maria Migration,” I stopped by to see what kind of help is being offered..
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