December 11, 2025 • 26 mins
TOP STORIES - DeSantis lays out Florida's budget priorities, the House advances a bill making humans review insurance claims, a student's clarinet set off a weapons detection system at a Florida school, Nikki Fried says ‘The pendulum is swinging' towards Democrats’ after victory in Miami election, the U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tanker bound for Cuba in latest escalation, and a woman was jailed for kicking her husband in the head and spitting in an officer's face during a drunken rampage. The family of a Tampa woman who was shot at a party is suing the apartment complex for lack of security, lawmakers are working on fixing Florida's school voucher program, and Tampa is among the country's top holiday travel destinations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Governor Desadas announced details of his budget proposal calls for
one hundred and seventeen billion dollars in spending. That's about
two billion more than last year, and he highlighted expenditures
for education, including one and a half billion for teacher
pay increases across the state and also another one point
seven billion for early childhood education. He also wants pay
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increases for state law enforcement and wants to extend the
recruitment bonus program, which pays out five thousand dollars for
new recruits. He also wants to increase healthcare spending across
the state. He wants to improve the state veterans, nursing homes,
fixed child welfare funding, and also help foster parents and
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caregivers and other community services. Key thing in his budget
is he wants to change to the property tests and
the revenues that are generated from that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, that's the main pitch so this property tax cut
plan that he wants on the twenty twenty six ballot
still hasn't been defined. There are no policy details from him.
We know what the House.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's like seven different ideas what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, that's what the House is looking to do. But
the governor, he's been pushing back against the Houses plan,
but he hasn't released his own plan, and he didn't yesterday.
Along with these budget priorities. What the budget does tied
to that that's really interesting is it sets aside three
hundred million dollars to reimburse thirty two small counties.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's a lot of counties here in Florida of the sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Seven if they lose revenue from any homestead tax rollback.
But he also said recently those counties may eventually have
to handle the revenue loss on their own. So essentially,
what we'd be doing in the immediate aftermath of any
kind of property tax cut plan passing on the twenty
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twenty six ballot, we'd be redistributing taxpayer dollars around the state.
So Hillsboro or Browerd taxpayers would be subsidizing Baker and
DeSoto counties, which I mean if you want to get
rid of property taxes, get rid of them, and everybody's
got to figure it out, right, So we're going to
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have you know, Panellis County, they're going to be responsible for,
you know, what goes on in a smaller county because
the smaller county camp Well, then don't eliminate the property taxes.
Then if that's going to be okay, Like, I don't
understand that. That doesn't make any sense to me. And
I will say though, the elimination of property taxes. There's
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another poll that just came out from SAX Media. Sixty
five percent of Florida voters they want property taxes reduced
or eliminated. It is a popular issue.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, I would love not to have to page property taxes.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's expensive, right, But there's more to this this survey
that again I think is interesting. Thirty one percent who
want property taxes gone want them completely eliminated, thirty four
percent want them cut.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Eighty seven percent.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Admitted that cutting property tax is probably going to hurt
some local services, but a lot of them are okay
with that in this poll.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
If they knew the details, yeah, maybe that would change.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
That's a good point. Chris that's a good point.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I mean that pays for the trash pickups.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So then what happens do we only get our trash
picked up once a week instead of twice a week?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Are those the kind of things that were once a Yeah,
it's gonna stink right now.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Eighty percent of voters in this survey believe landlords should
pass along any tax savings to tenants through lower rants.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But and this is another key point when voters are
asked what cost of living issue they want tackle first,
property insurance still beats property taxes.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, And I kind of feel like last year we
talked a lot about property insurance, property insurance, and then
all of a sudden, this property tax thing kind of
popped up, and some people, I think get confused, like
it to hear the word property.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And the insurance is still a huge problem for a
lot of people. Their property insurance has gone up way
more than their property taxes happened.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, And what I also thought was notable about that
finding is that despite what we're hearing from officials here
in Florida that the situation is getting better, it's getting better,
it's getting better. Clearly people still not feeling it if
that's still their top issue so.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, and it's not just the cost of the property
insurance which has gone up, it's the fact that if
you do file acclaim, you're getting through.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, to complete mess.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And on that note, this is an interesting news story
that the legislature is looking to accomplish in this upcoming session.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, Governor de Santas is writing the state for a
so called artif Official Intelligence Bill of Rights. It's legislation
that could help Floridians and fights with insurers when they
make claims. So Representative Hillary Castle has a measure that
would mandate qualified human professionals guaranteed human right to review
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to review these insurance claims and rather than allowing companies
to just sort of shift that task to AI tools
and algorithms that are probably assigned to find the best
way to not pay the claims.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I believe that's the prompt find a way out of
this claim.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And then you know, if you have a complaint about
it and you call the insurance company, they're like, well,
that's just what we determine. You know, you're out of luck.
As opposed to somebody who actually reviewed the case. So
this is an interesting state of affairs in the sense
that there are many other states and President Trump who
want a band states from having restrictions on AI.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Right, Florida is taking a leading role on trying to
implement some different AI regularation measures.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
This one makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Basically, a real person has to sign off on any
denial and if there were AI tools used, they have
to explain it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
The American Property and Casualty Insurance Association, they said the
bill could slow down processing and drive up consumer costs
by limiting AI tools that reduce errors. But to me,
that's not what this bill does. You can use the
AI tool, you just have to have a real person
answer for it and explain it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So right, one of my friends works for a health
insurance company and she's been working on this project where
they're using an AI tool to look at some of
the claims and then she has to go back and
verify it while the program the AI tool. She said,
it's the worst project you's ever had to work out.
She hates their job right now.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, Like, I can understand utilizing AI in certain areas
to make it more efficient or things like that. But again,
it's what is the prompt that they're putting in for
this AI stuff, And then you've got to have somebody
double checking us and somebody who can answer to the
person who filed the claim so they can get, you know,
the information they need about what happened to right.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Exactly, a student holding a musical instrument as if it
were a gun prompted an alert that resulted in a
code read at a school in o Veto in the
Orlando area. Law and Child's Middle School placed on a
brief lockdown on Tuesday morning after an automated weapons detection
system detected a student holding a clarinet like a rifle.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, this is this is why you need a real
person behind some of that AI stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yes, this is exactly why.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But then again, you know, on camera you could see
where like, yeah, it looks like a bunch of like
triggers on the side or something, and I guess.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But then the sounds emanating from yeah, yeah, not quite
the same as as gunshots being fired or anything like that,
a little little different.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well, that student could play yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So the principal, Melissa Aloudani, said that look, we have
multiple layers of school safety, including this automated system that
detects potential threats. So you know, if somebody's walked down
the hallway, as we have seen in schools around the
state and in other parts of the country, that appear
to be a weapon, this is supposed to trigger the
code red, and unfortunately it was in a musical instrument
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and it turned out to be a false alarm. But
I think what they're saying is, yeah, in effect, the
system did its shot right right.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
And there was another case I forget where it was.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Maybe it was Maryland where it was Baga do Ritos
that was mistaken for a weapon and that triggered a
whole thing.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
So out of the bagada look like a weapon.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't know, there's some dying number forty. There are
some kinks that need to be worked out. But I
wonder as a parent, Dana, would you rather add this
in place than not.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, I think so. I think it makes a lot
of sense. Yeah, and it would probably ease the kids
to My son gets nervous about this stuff sometimes, so yeah,
it's a good way to make you feel better about it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Right, Just make sure you know if they got the clarinet.
They're doing this and not you know, yeah, holding it
like a weapon. Exactly, all right. Chris Trankman with today's
Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much. Start with today's Tops
stories and Natalie Rodriguez Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Good, good morning. Well, the pendulum is swinging toward Democrats.
Those words from Nikki Free, chair of the Florida's Democratic Party.
Following former County commission i Lean Higgins win to become
the city's next mayor.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Everybody was watching this race as kind of a bellwether
of a test of our publican stronghold here in the
state of Florida, but also for the rest of the country.
And what we've been able to illustrate here.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
In Miami is what we've organized.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
We have an exceptional candidates that are talking about the
kitchen table.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Issues we win every day.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
The rees drewing, drawing national interests, from former President Obama's
endorsement of Higgins to President Trump endorsing former city manager
Emilio Gonzalez, who very eloquently as soon as the results
came in congratulated Higgins and said he stands by her
as the next mayor of the city because now we
just have to move forward.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, there was no you know, the whole thing was
rigged or anything like that. It was just your normal,
like old school concession. A couple things. I think Democrats
should probably slow their role just a bit now.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Getting a little ahead of herself.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, it was a good win for Democrats in Miami. Also,
they overperformed in like that Senate just took eleven special election.
Nikki Fried was highlighting Hernando County results. In that election,
the margin for Republicans shrank from thirty four points last
year to six points this week. I would just note that, Look,
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I come from Hernando County. Hernando County ain't going blue
anytime soon, and that margin I would bet in the
midterm is going to go back up mayven at thirty
four points, but it ain't going to be six points.
And look, I think one thing that Democrats have to
recognize here that I haven't heard a lot about, especially
at the national level. Aileen Higgins isn't a socialist. You know,
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helps when you run a candidate who can build broader
coalitions and doesn't alienate a bunch of But I mean,
we were talking about some of the things that she's
looking to do earlier in the show in the six
o'clock hour, she's looking to do in permitting reform. Okay,
she's not looking at handing out, you know, a bunch
of free stuff like Zoron Mumdani, Pie in the Sky
type stuff. So, you know, if Democrats are going to
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run candidates that can win over some independence, maybe some
disaffected Republicans, and still turn out their base because they
want to push back against Trump, then they'll have a
good midterm election. If you're going to run a bunch
of Zoron Mumdani's all across the country, including in areas
where it could be a tight race, you're not gonna
do as well. So it really just depends on, you know,
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what their strategy is going into the midterms.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
And for Florida Democrats, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I'm not buying that they can change things here in
Florida until I see it because they just haven't been
able to do it. They get outperformed every single time
by Republicans who are more organized now they have a
big voter registration advantage in this state. So I would think,
you know, if I had to put money on it,
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I would say twenty twenty six is probably going to
be a bit better for Democrats than Republicans, but I
would be even more cautious saying that in Florida, where
we've seen there's been a red wall that's blocked some
blue waves in recent years.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
What else is going on?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Natalie Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria
Coriina Machado appearing in public for the first time in
eleven months after a daring escape from her homeland. She
addressed the public yesterday and this morning she is talking
about that US seizure of the oil tanker said to
be transporting sanctioned oil to her run off the coast
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of her homeland.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I believe there's no other generation in the history of
Venezuela that loves war, freedom or family and our soul,
her territory, the possibility of actually being in your homeland,
living freely in your homeland, because we have lost that now.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
In a post on ex Attorney General Pam Bondi said
that the ship in fact, had been sanctioned for years
over its alleged involvement in an oil shipping network supporting
terrorist groups, and Maria Equdina my childhood supports that statement.
The move comes as tensions have escalated between President Trump
and Dictator Nicolasma Duto, who Senator Rick Scott earlier this
week said, come Christmas, he's going to be out of
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there one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, let's hope. So.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So, the seizure of the oil tanker, apparently it came
just hours after Machiano managed to escape the country on
a boat, and apparently her team had to inform the
US military that she was escaping so they wouldn't mistake
her boat for an alleged narco terrorist boat and bombit.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Like hey said.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
She said that they had their hands on in her escape,
that they actually enabled her transport from Venezuela to Oslo.
So she credits the Trump administration for getting her out
of their safe.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Leg Yeah, they helped get her out of there.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But initially it was like, hey, you know, we've got
this plan right right right, and if you can help us, great,
And she was wearing a wig in the disguise and
it was like ten hours this whole process. They went
through ten military checkpoints and then she gets to the
coast and then they took a little bit of a
break and then she had to take that trip in
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the open Caribbean sea and it was on this you know,
little like wooden fishing skiff and god, yeah, I mean
the story about how this all went down is just incredible.
But it's amazing to see her out of that country.
And the hits keep coming for Nicholas Medoro and his
Venezuelan regime.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
So let's hope that regime comes to an end soon.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All right, Let's get to one more quick story this morning.
It might be the craziest one of the morning, absolutely so.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
A what's believed to be heavily intoxicated doctor is facing
battery charges, among other things. Thirty nine year old gisellements Or,
who is an internal medicine specialist. She was listed at
Mount Sinai, but I checked this morning and Mount Sinai
does not have her list.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
As she does, it's gone.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Yeah, she's been five She has a private practice in Kei, Biskaine.
But she was caught on live camera feed by Department
of Transportation and according to the arrest report, she'd been
down drinking with a friend fine at a restaurant. Her
husband picks them up because they're not sober. An argument
in the car gets heated between the friends. She pulls
over to try to de escalate the situation on the
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Palmetto Expressway. Well, troopers say that she kicked her hubby
in the face from her back seat. She gets out
of the car, jumps on the hood and eat. But wait,
it gets worse. Troopers show up. They arrest her. She
starts kicking and screaming in the back seat. She refuses
to get out. They try to restrain her, she spits
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in the face of a trouper and they tase her.
She is now facing several charges, but she was granted
a thirty eight hundred dollars bond on several of those charges,
but the bond this morning is listed as to be
set on the charge of assault on an officer.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah she, I guess she walked into like live traffic
on the expressway. She sat down and just blocked all
the cars. Oh my gosh. So she had herself quite
a moment. And you know, you know when the husband
got that call that he had to come pick them up.
Oh yeah, he knew this is gonna go Well, now,
I don't know that he knew it was.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Going to go that bad.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I looked at her Instagram, and they seem to be
very much in love. They just celebrated their three year
Weddy anniversary and she wrote a post about how he
is her safe place. She's beautiful, Yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
She's a hot doctor.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, just had a really rough day and we'll see
if that relationship can survive getting kicked in the face.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, he said, I guess in court, he said through
the court video call.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
She's my wife. I want to pick her up from jail.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, Well she's pretty hot and she's a doctor, so
you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, Natalie Rodriguez. Today's DAP story
is Natalie. Thanks so much, you got it. Let's get
to today's OOP stories with Chris Trankman. Good morning, Chris,
Good morning. So, attorneys and loved ones of a Temple
woman who was shot in the head at a birthday
party in September are now suing the apartment complex over
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security issues. So back on September nineteenth, twenty six year
old Aeronique Moore was at a pajama party at the
River Tree Landing apartments when three uninvited guests showed up
and according to the attorney Megan Bridwell, she said these
people came out of the property freely because there was
no control of access. There was no gate, those security cameras.
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There was a struggle at the party and outside of
the apartment. LaMonte Scott ran off the front porch and
then fired several rounds into the apartment from outside a
bedroom window, and one woman was raised in the back
of the head by a bullet. But Moore was shot
in the left center part of her forehead and she's
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been hospitalized at Tampa General Hospital and X ray shows
that the bullet's path goes right through her head. Yeah,
it's amazing she's still alive. But I guess her family
is saying she's gonna have a long recovery. She's gonna
have to relearn how to walk and talk and do
all of that. This is an interest in case because
there are some requirements here in Florida for landlords. I'm
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just not sure it rises to the extent that these
attorneys are arguing it does where an apartment complex would
have to put these security measures in place. There are
a lot of apartment complexes that aren't gated, that don't
have security cameras and things like that.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Now, if.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
An increase in crime or something like that is foreseeable.
Then landlords have a responsibility and I was looking at
kind of the statutes here, they have a responsibility to
take reasonable steps to secure the premises.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
But now you're getting into what exactly does that?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What does that mean they have to have twenty four
hour security guards? Do they have to install a gate
around the property?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
What is reasonable?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
This is apparently an apartment complex where there have been
a number of issues, you know, in recent years, so
crime is something that can be prevalent in that area.
But I still don't think that would lead to the
landlord of these apartments to have to put in like
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a gate or something like that, because then you're talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
If there was a gate that was broken or not
functioning open when it shouldn't have been, there's just no gate. Yeah,
then you're in a non gated community and that just
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, at least that was my reading of the story, right, Chris, Yeah,
I mean I think that in this particular case, the
attorney is arguing that it was still the responsibility of
the complex to provide that security. But if you look
at the video of the place, it's just what you
would expect at a place without any gate. Yeah, you
can just drive up right, And that's what these guys did.
They obviously, you know, had some issue with people there
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and they showed up there uninvited. But whether that's the
apartment complex's responsibility is going to be a determined in court.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I'm not sure that they're going to win that lassit.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's terrible what happened to this moment. It seems like
they just want to find somebody to be responsible.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
A key Florida Senate committee has unanimously approved a bipartisan
piece of legislation aimed at fixing problems in the state's
four billion dollar school voucher program. The measure came in
response to a scathing report from the Auditor General that
detail how funding allowed thousands of students and millions of
dollars to go unaccounted for during the last academic year.
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So key recommendations include keeping the money that's for vouchers
separated from the budget for public schools. The way it
works now is lawmakers rolled the voucher funds into the
general education budget as they expanded the program, so all
Florida kids could be eligible. But the scrambled funding has
become a mess to keep track of. Yeah, and obviously
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public schools are like, well, if you can't keep track
of where all the money is going, especially in these
newly eligible people, mind for vouchers, and how is the
education set up in the States supposed to function normally?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Basically part of what happened here is the state expanded
the voucher program and so many people decided they were
going to try to take advantage of it. State couldn't
keep up. They didn't have We've talked about this before.
They did not have the infrastructure on place to track
all of this, and so it became a giant freaking mess.
Now every voucher student's going to have a state issued
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ID number. I guess that that could help. I don't
know why that wasn't something that was put in place.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
To begin with.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And this is the thing though, that's gonna suck for
families who have their kids enrolled with this voucher system.
They could have to confirm where their child is enrolled
ten times per year, so the funds don't keep going
to kids who like switch schools or leave programs.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
So that's a lot of follow up. Can you imagine.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, you've got to keep saying my kids still at.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
This right, they want to keep checking some I get
having that as a check in place. This is going
to be a pain in the ask for families.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Why wouldn't it just be that when you leave a
school and go to a new school, that that new
school has to register it and then it's connected to
that child.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
That sounds a little too simple, Okay, that's try it out.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Remember when they first put it in, like the schools
weren't even getting anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, there's a big problem.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And you had some schools that were shutting down because
of it because they needed the money and it wasn't
coming to them and they didn't know what it was
going to get there, so they couldn't keep operating. There
was another story in the Tampa Bay Times I was
reading recently, and it showed how homeschooling is expanding in
this school.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
A lot of people who homeschool now they.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Have money for Yeah, up about six point six percent
twenty twenty. So the pandemic kind of kicked things off,
and I think the growth too of like the.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Online resources for can you like.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know how homeschooling worked back when I was
in say, high school, you would have to get all
those materials and stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, there's curriculum you can get. Now it's a lot easier,
I think. And there are groups that, you know, work
together with other homeschoolers. But the problem is they don't
have any accountability. Robbody really knows that they're actually doing
anything at school at home.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, one of the moms quoted in the story in
the Tampa Bay Times said that she decided to homeschool
her son because the public schools weren't challenging enough.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Some people actually think that some people really do so
small well, and as somebody who has a pretty smart child,
there are definitely times where it feels like they have
to teach to the kids that are having a hard.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Right, right, then he's not being challenged.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, I've never had that problem. Public school was plenty
of difficult.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
For I'm not homeschooling, not at all all.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Right, what else is going on? Chris?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So, if you're a resident traveling inside the state of
Florida or somebody coming to visit, Florida remains a top
destination for holiday travel. According to Triple A, so nearly
half the top ten domestic destinations in the US is
how holiday season or right here in Florida.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, the warm weather.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, so number one is Orlando, it's not a surprise.
Number two for Lauderdale, number three Miami, and number six
is Tampa. So a pretty good showing for Florida. Other
top rank places include Los Angeles, Anaheim, that's where Disneyland's located, Honolulu, Hawaii, Maui, Dallas,
and Las Vegas, all warm weather areas.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
People from the northeast.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, no, one's going to my cousin, my aunt.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
My cousin and her two kids came last year on
Christmas Day. They flew down here and it was freezing
in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, they loved it. Yeah, I want to get away
from that.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
That's right. Nobody's going to like Anchorage. No, no, I
don't even have any sun.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But what's interesting is that Tampa is projected to have
the worst holiday traffic in the entire country, so that
there's a lot of people coming here. I get that,
But there was a new study that analyzed traffic conditions
fifty largest US cities for the Christmas season. Tampa ranks
as the worst city for holiday travel, a thirty six
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percent jump in congestion heading into Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I would think that would be Orlando, because Orlando is
a mess.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
On it all day right right now.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Maybe it has something to do with a lot of
the people who are going to Orlando going to Disney,
and you can navigate Disney, you know, without necessarily having
to get stuck in traffic.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
App No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, like if you take the can't you take the
buses and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
If you're sitting around, you got to get there first. Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You're staying in the actual resort and you don't have
to get on I four.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
But I mean it's a disaster.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean the problem with Tampa and Orlando is you
have I four. Yeah, one road you know, east and West,
and it is part of the state, and if anything
happens on them, right, even a fender bender, Yeah, the whole.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Interstate shuts down. It's just it's just terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I bet part of it too is you got all
these people coming into town from other places. They don't
know where the hell they're going. I'm going to mess
up traffic in and of itself. Chris Frankman with today's
top stories, Chris, thanks so much so.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Governor Desadas announced details of his budget proposal calls for
one hundred and seventeen billion dollars in spending. That's about
two billion more than last year, and he highlighted expenditures
for education, including one and a half billion for teacher
pay increases across the state and also another one point
seven billion for early childhood education. He also wants pay
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increases for state law enforcement and wants to extend the
recruitment bonus program, which pays out five thousand dollars for
new recruits. He also wants to increase healthcare spending across
the state. He wants to improve the state veterans, nursing homes,
fixed child welfare funding, and also help foster parents and
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caregivers and other community services. Key thing in his budget
is he wants to change to the property tests and
the revenues that are generated from that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, that's the main pitch so this property tax cut
plan that he wants on the twenty twenty six ballot
still hasn't been defined. There are no policy details from him.
We know what the House.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
It's like seven different ideas what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, that's what the House is looking to do. But
the governor, he's been pushing back against the Houses plan,
but he hasn't released his own plan, and he didn't yesterday.
Along with these budget priorities. What the budget does tied
to that that's really interesting is it sets aside three
hundred million dollars to reimburse thirty two small counties.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It's a lot of counties here in Florida of the sixty.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Seven if they lose revenue from any homestead tax rollback.
But he also said recently those counties may eventually have
to handle the revenue loss on their own. So essentially,
what we'd be doing in the immediate aftermath of any
kind of property tax cut plan passing on the twenty
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twenty six ballot, we'd be redistributing taxpayer dollars around the state.
So Hillsboro or Browerd taxpayers would be subsidizing Baker and
DeSoto counties, which I mean if you want to get
rid of property taxes, get rid of them, and everybody's
got to figure it out, right, So we're going to
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have you know, Panellis County, they're going to be responsible for,
you know, what goes on in a smaller county because
the smaller county camp Well, then don't eliminate the property taxes.
Then if that's going to be okay, Like, I don't
understand that. That doesn't make any sense to me. And
I will say though, the elimination of property taxes. There's
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another poll that just came out from SAX Media. Sixty
five percent of Florida voters they want property taxes reduced
or eliminated. It is a popular issue.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, I would love not to have to page property taxes.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
It's expensive, right, But there's more to this this survey
that again I think is interesting. Thirty one percent who
want property taxes gone want them completely eliminated, thirty four
percent want them cut.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Eighty seven percent.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Admitted that cutting property tax is probably going to hurt
some local services, but a lot of them are okay
with that in this poll.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
If they knew the details, yeah, maybe that would change.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
That's a good point. Chris that's a good point.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I mean that pays for the trash pickups.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So then what happens do we only get our trash
picked up once a week instead of twice a week?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Like?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Are those the kind of things that were once a Yeah,
it's gonna stink right now.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Eighty percent of voters in this survey believe landlords should
pass along any tax savings to tenants through lower rants.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But and this is another key point when voters are
asked what cost of living issue they want tackle first,
property insurance still beats property taxes.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, And I kind of feel like last year we
talked a lot about property insurance, property insurance, and then
all of a sudden, this property tax thing kind of
popped up, and some people, I think get confused, like
it to hear the word property.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And the insurance is still a huge problem for a
lot of people. Their property insurance has gone up way
more than their property taxes happened.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, And what I also thought was notable about that
finding is that despite what we're hearing from officials here
in Florida that the situation is getting better, it's getting better,
it's getting better. Clearly people still not feeling it if
that's still their top issue so.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, and it's not just the cost of the property
insurance which has gone up, it's the fact that if
you do file acclaim, you're getting through.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yeah, to complete mess.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And on that note, this is an interesting news story
that the legislature is looking to accomplish in this upcoming session.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, Governor de Santas is writing the state for a
so called artif Official Intelligence Bill of Rights. It's legislation
that could help Floridians and fights with insurers when they
make claims. So Representative Hillary Castle has a measure that
would mandate qualified human professionals guaranteed human right to review
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to review these insurance claims and rather than allowing companies
to just sort of shift that task to AI tools
and algorithms that are probably assigned to find the best
way to not pay the claims.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Exactly right.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I believe that's the prompt find a way out of
this claim.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And then you know, if you have a complaint about
it and you call the insurance company, they're like, well,
that's just what we determine. You know, you're out of luck.
As opposed to somebody who actually reviewed the case. So
this is an interesting state of affairs in the sense
that there are many other states and President Trump who
want a band states from having restrictions on AI.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Right, Florida is taking a leading role on trying to
implement some different AI regularation measures.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
This one makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Basically, a real person has to sign off on any
denial and if there were AI tools used, they have
to explain it.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
The American Property and Casualty Insurance Association, they said the
bill could slow down processing and drive up consumer costs
by limiting AI tools that reduce errors. But to me,
that's not what this bill does. You can use the
AI tool, you just have to have a real person
answer for it and explain it.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So right, one of my friends works for a health
insurance company and she's been working on this project where
they're using an AI tool to look at some of
the claims and then she has to go back and
verify it while the program the AI tool. She said,
it's the worst project you's ever had to work out.
She hates their job right now.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, Like, I can understand utilizing AI in certain areas
to make it more efficient or things like that. But again,
it's what is the prompt that they're putting in for
this AI stuff, And then you've got to have somebody
double checking us and somebody who can answer to the
person who filed the claim so they can get, you know,
the information they need about what happened to right.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Exactly, a student holding a musical instrument as if it
were a gun prompted an alert that resulted in a
code read at a school in o Veto in the
Orlando area. Law and Child's Middle School placed on a
brief lockdown on Tuesday morning after an automated weapons detection
system detected a student holding a clarinet like a rifle.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, this is this is why you need a real
person behind some of that AI stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yes, this is exactly why.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
But then again, you know, on camera you could see
where like, yeah, it looks like a bunch of like
triggers on the side or something, and I guess.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But then the sounds emanating from yeah, yeah, not quite
the same as as gunshots being fired or anything like that,
a little little different.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Well, that student could play yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So the principal, Melissa Aloudani, said that look, we have
multiple layers of school safety, including this automated system that
detects potential threats. So you know, if somebody's walked down
the hallway, as we have seen in schools around the
state and in other parts of the country, that appear
to be a weapon, this is supposed to trigger the
code red, and unfortunately it was in a musical instrument
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and it turned out to be a false alarm. But
I think what they're saying is, yeah, in effect, the
system did its shot right right.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
And there was another case I forget where it was.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Maybe it was Maryland where it was Baga do Ritos
that was mistaken for a weapon and that triggered a
whole thing.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
So out of the bagada look like a weapon.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't know, there's some dying number forty. There are
some kinks that need to be worked out. But I
wonder as a parent, Dana, would you rather add this
in place than not.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, I think so. I think it makes a lot
of sense. Yeah, and it would probably ease the kids
to My son gets nervous about this stuff sometimes, so yeah,
it's a good way to make you feel better about it.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Right, Just make sure you know if they got the clarinet.
They're doing this and not you know, yeah, holding it
like a weapon. Exactly, all right. Chris Trankman with today's
Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much. Start with today's Tops
stories and Natalie Rodriguez Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Good, good morning. Well, the pendulum is swinging toward Democrats.
Those words from Nikki Free, chair of the Florida's Democratic Party.
Following former County commission i Lean Higgins win to become
the city's next mayor.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Everybody was watching this race as kind of a bellwether
of a test of our publican stronghold here in the
state of Florida, but also for the rest of the country.
And what we've been able to illustrate here.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
In Miami is what we've organized.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
We have an exceptional candidates that are talking about the
kitchen table.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Issues we win every day.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
The rees drewing, drawing national interests, from former President Obama's
endorsement of Higgins to President Trump endorsing former city manager
Emilio Gonzalez, who very eloquently as soon as the results
came in congratulated Higgins and said he stands by her
as the next mayor of the city because now we
just have to move forward.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, there was no you know, the whole thing was
rigged or anything like that. It was just your normal,
like old school concession. A couple things. I think Democrats
should probably slow their role just a bit now.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Getting a little ahead of herself.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, it was a good win for Democrats in Miami. Also,
they overperformed in like that Senate just took eleven special election.
Nikki Fried was highlighting Hernando County results. In that election,
the margin for Republicans shrank from thirty four points last
year to six points this week. I would just note that, Look,
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I come from Hernando County. Hernando County ain't going blue
anytime soon, and that margin I would bet in the
midterm is going to go back up mayven at thirty
four points, but it ain't going to be six points.
And look, I think one thing that Democrats have to
recognize here that I haven't heard a lot about, especially
at the national level. Aileen Higgins isn't a socialist. You know,
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helps when you run a candidate who can build broader
coalitions and doesn't alienate a bunch of But I mean,
we were talking about some of the things that she's
looking to do earlier in the show in the six
o'clock hour, she's looking to do in permitting reform. Okay,
she's not looking at handing out, you know, a bunch
of free stuff like Zoron Mumdani, Pie in the Sky
type stuff. So, you know, if Democrats are going to
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run candidates that can win over some independence, maybe some
disaffected Republicans, and still turn out their base because they
want to push back against Trump, then they'll have a
good midterm election. If you're going to run a bunch
of Zoron Mumdani's all across the country, including in areas
where it could be a tight race, you're not gonna
do as well. So it really just depends on, you know,
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what their strategy is going into the midterms.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
And for Florida Democrats, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
I'm not buying that they can change things here in
Florida until I see it because they just haven't been
able to do it. They get outperformed every single time
by Republicans who are more organized now they have a
big voter registration advantage in this state. So I would think,
you know, if I had to put money on it,
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I would say twenty twenty six is probably going to
be a bit better for Democrats than Republicans, but I
would be even more cautious saying that in Florida, where
we've seen there's been a red wall that's blocked some
blue waves in recent years.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
What else is going on?
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Natalie Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria
Coriina Machado appearing in public for the first time in
eleven months after a daring escape from her homeland. She
addressed the public yesterday and this morning she is talking
about that US seizure of the oil tanker said to
be transporting sanctioned oil to her run off the coast
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of her homeland.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I believe there's no other generation in the history of
Venezuela that loves war, freedom or family and our soul,
her territory, the possibility of actually being in your homeland,
living freely in your homeland, because we have lost that now.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
In a post on ex Attorney General Pam Bondi said
that the ship in fact, had been sanctioned for years
over its alleged involvement in an oil shipping network supporting
terrorist groups, and Maria Equdina my childhood supports that statement.
The move comes as tensions have escalated between President Trump
and Dictator Nicolasma Duto, who Senator Rick Scott earlier this
week said, come Christmas, he's going to be out of
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there one way or the other.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, let's hope. So.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
So, the seizure of the oil tanker, apparently it came
just hours after Machiano managed to escape the country on
a boat, and apparently her team had to inform the
US military that she was escaping so they wouldn't mistake
her boat for an alleged narco terrorist boat and bombit.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Like hey said.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
She said that they had their hands on in her escape,
that they actually enabled her transport from Venezuela to Oslo.
So she credits the Trump administration for getting her out
of their safe.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Leg Yeah, they helped get her out of there.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But initially it was like, hey, you know, we've got
this plan right right right, and if you can help us, great,
And she was wearing a wig in the disguise and
it was like ten hours this whole process. They went
through ten military checkpoints and then she gets to the
coast and then they took a little bit of a
break and then she had to take that trip in
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the open Caribbean sea and it was on this you know,
little like wooden fishing skiff and god, yeah, I mean
the story about how this all went down is just incredible.
But it's amazing to see her out of that country.
And the hits keep coming for Nicholas Medoro and his
Venezuelan regime.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
So let's hope that regime comes to an end soon.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
All right, Let's get to one more quick story this morning.
It might be the craziest one of the morning, absolutely so.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
A what's believed to be heavily intoxicated doctor is facing
battery charges, among other things. Thirty nine year old gisellements Or,
who is an internal medicine specialist. She was listed at
Mount Sinai, but I checked this morning and Mount Sinai
does not have her list.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
As she does, it's gone.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Yeah, she's been five She has a private practice in Kei, Biskaine.
But she was caught on live camera feed by Department
of Transportation and according to the arrest report, she'd been
down drinking with a friend fine at a restaurant. Her
husband picks them up because they're not sober. An argument
in the car gets heated between the friends. She pulls
over to try to de escalate the situation on the
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Palmetto Expressway. Well, troopers say that she kicked her hubby
in the face from her back seat. She gets out
of the car, jumps on the hood and eat. But wait,
it gets worse. Troopers show up. They arrest her. She
starts kicking and screaming in the back seat. She refuses
to get out. They try to restrain her, she spits
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in the face of a trouper and they tase her.
She is now facing several charges, but she was granted
a thirty eight hundred dollars bond on several of those charges,
but the bond this morning is listed as to be
set on the charge of assault on an officer.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah she, I guess she walked into like live traffic
on the expressway. She sat down and just blocked all
the cars. Oh my gosh. So she had herself quite
a moment. And you know, you know when the husband
got that call that he had to come pick them up.
Oh yeah, he knew this is gonna go Well, now,
I don't know that he knew it was.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Going to go that bad.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I looked at her Instagram, and they seem to be
very much in love. They just celebrated their three year
Weddy anniversary and she wrote a post about how he
is her safe place. She's beautiful, Yeah, beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
She's a hot doctor.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, just had a really rough day and we'll see
if that relationship can survive getting kicked in the face.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah, he said, I guess in court, he said through
the court video call.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
She's my wife. I want to pick her up from jail.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, Well she's pretty hot and she's a doctor, so
you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, Natalie Rodriguez. Today's DAP story
is Natalie. Thanks so much, you got it. Let's get
to today's OOP stories with Chris Trankman. Good morning, Chris,
Good morning. So, attorneys and loved ones of a Temple
woman who was shot in the head at a birthday
party in September are now suing the apartment complex over
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security issues. So back on September nineteenth, twenty six year
old Aeronique Moore was at a pajama party at the
River Tree Landing apartments when three uninvited guests showed up
and according to the attorney Megan Bridwell, she said these
people came out of the property freely because there was
no control of access. There was no gate, those security cameras.
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There was a struggle at the party and outside of
the apartment. LaMonte Scott ran off the front porch and
then fired several rounds into the apartment from outside a
bedroom window, and one woman was raised in the back
of the head by a bullet. But Moore was shot
in the left center part of her forehead and she's
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been hospitalized at Tampa General Hospital and X ray shows
that the bullet's path goes right through her head. Yeah,
it's amazing she's still alive. But I guess her family
is saying she's gonna have a long recovery. She's gonna
have to relearn how to walk and talk and do
all of that. This is an interest in case because
there are some requirements here in Florida for landlords. I'm
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just not sure it rises to the extent that these
attorneys are arguing it does where an apartment complex would
have to put these security measures in place. There are
a lot of apartment complexes that aren't gated, that don't
have security cameras and things like that.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Now, if.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
An increase in crime or something like that is foreseeable.
Then landlords have a responsibility and I was looking at
kind of the statutes here, they have a responsibility to
take reasonable steps to secure the premises.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
But now you're getting into what exactly does that?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What does that mean they have to have twenty four
hour security guards? Do they have to install a gate
around the property?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
What is reasonable?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
This is apparently an apartment complex where there have been
a number of issues, you know, in recent years, so
crime is something that can be prevalent in that area.
But I still don't think that would lead to the
landlord of these apartments to have to put in like
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a gate or something like that, because then you're talking
about it.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
If there was a gate that was broken or not
functioning open when it shouldn't have been, there's just no gate. Yeah,
then you're in a non gated community and that just
is what it is.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, at least that was my reading of the story, right, Chris, Yeah,
I mean I think that in this particular case, the
attorney is arguing that it was still the responsibility of
the complex to provide that security. But if you look
at the video of the place, it's just what you
would expect at a place without any gate. Yeah, you
can just drive up right, And that's what these guys did.
They obviously, you know, had some issue with people there
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and they showed up there uninvited. But whether that's the
apartment complex's responsibility is going to be a determined in court.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
I'm not sure that they're going to win that lassit.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
It's terrible what happened to this moment. It seems like
they just want to find somebody to be responsible.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
But yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
A key Florida Senate committee has unanimously approved a bipartisan
piece of legislation aimed at fixing problems in the state's
four billion dollar school voucher program. The measure came in
response to a scathing report from the Auditor General that
detail how funding allowed thousands of students and millions of
dollars to go unaccounted for during the last academic year.
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So key recommendations include keeping the money that's for vouchers
separated from the budget for public schools. The way it
works now is lawmakers rolled the voucher funds into the
general education budget as they expanded the program, so all
Florida kids could be eligible. But the scrambled funding has
become a mess to keep track of. Yeah, and obviously
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public schools are like, well, if you can't keep track
of where all the money is going, especially in these
newly eligible people, mind for vouchers, and how is the
education set up in the States supposed to function normally?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Basically part of what happened here is the state expanded
the voucher program and so many people decided they were
going to try to take advantage of it. State couldn't
keep up. They didn't have We've talked about this before.
They did not have the infrastructure on place to track
all of this, and so it became a giant freaking mess.
Now every voucher student's going to have a state issued
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ID number. I guess that that could help. I don't
know why that wasn't something that was put in place.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
To begin with.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And this is the thing though, that's gonna suck for
families who have their kids enrolled with this voucher system.
They could have to confirm where their child is enrolled
ten times per year, so the funds don't keep going
to kids who like switch schools or leave programs.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
So that's a lot of follow up. Can you imagine.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Yeah, you've got to keep saying my kids still at.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
This right, they want to keep checking some I get
having that as a check in place. This is going
to be a pain in the ask for families.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Why wouldn't it just be that when you leave a
school and go to a new school, that that new
school has to register it and then it's connected to
that child.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
That sounds a little too simple, Okay, that's try it out.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Remember when they first put it in, like the schools
weren't even getting anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, yeah, there's a big problem.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And you had some schools that were shutting down because
of it because they needed the money and it wasn't
coming to them and they didn't know what it was
going to get there, so they couldn't keep operating. There
was another story in the Tampa Bay Times I was
reading recently, and it showed how homeschooling is expanding in
this school.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
A lot of people who homeschool now they.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Have money for Yeah, up about six point six percent
twenty twenty. So the pandemic kind of kicked things off,
and I think the growth too of like the.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Online resources for can you like.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I don't know how homeschooling worked back when I was
in say, high school, you would have to get all
those materials and stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, there's curriculum you can get. Now it's a lot easier,
I think. And there are groups that, you know, work
together with other homeschoolers. But the problem is they don't
have any accountability. Robbody really knows that they're actually doing
anything at school at home.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Well, one of the moms quoted in the story in
the Tampa Bay Times said that she decided to homeschool
her son because the public schools weren't challenging enough.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Some people actually think that some people really do so
small well, and as somebody who has a pretty smart child,
there are definitely times where it feels like they have
to teach to the kids that are having a hard.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Right, right, then he's not being challenged.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Yeah, I've never had that problem. Public school was plenty
of difficult.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
For I'm not homeschooling, not at all all.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Right, what else is going on? Chris?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So, if you're a resident traveling inside the state of
Florida or somebody coming to visit, Florida remains a top
destination for holiday travel. According to Triple A, so nearly
half the top ten domestic destinations in the US is
how holiday season or right here in Florida.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Yeah, the warm weather.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yeah, so number one is Orlando, it's not a surprise.
Number two for Lauderdale, number three Miami, and number six
is Tampa. So a pretty good showing for Florida. Other
top rank places include Los Angeles, Anaheim, that's where Disneyland's located, Honolulu, Hawaii, Maui, Dallas,
and Las Vegas, all warm weather areas.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
People from the northeast.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Yeah, no, one's going to my cousin, my aunt.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
My cousin and her two kids came last year on
Christmas Day. They flew down here and it was freezing
in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, they loved it. Yeah, I want to get away
from that.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
That's right. Nobody's going to like Anchorage. No, no, I
don't even have any sun.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But what's interesting is that Tampa is projected to have
the worst holiday traffic in the entire country, so that
there's a lot of people coming here. I get that,
But there was a new study that analyzed traffic conditions
fifty largest US cities for the Christmas season. Tampa ranks
as the worst city for holiday travel, a thirty six
(25:03):
percent jump in congestion heading into Christmas.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I would think that would be Orlando, because Orlando is
a mess.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
On it all day right right now.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Maybe it has something to do with a lot of
the people who are going to Orlando going to Disney,
and you can navigate Disney, you know, without necessarily having
to get stuck in traffic.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
App No, you can't.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, like if you take the can't you take the
buses and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
If you're sitting around, you got to get there first. Yeah,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You're staying in the actual resort and you don't have
to get on I four.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
But I mean it's a disaster.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I mean the problem with Tampa and Orlando is you
have I four. Yeah, one road you know, east and West,
and it is part of the state, and if anything
happens on them, right, even a fender bender, Yeah, the whole.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Interstate shuts down. It's just it's just terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
I bet part of it too is you got all
these people coming into town from other places. They don't
know where the hell they're going. I'm going to mess
up traffic in and of itself. Chris Frankman with today's
top stories, Chris, thanks so much so.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
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