Sundial

On this Tuesday, July 2, episode of Sundial: Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner On COVID-19 Gov. Ron DeSantis has made the message loud and clear that Florida has no plans on rolling back, even as the state continues to see thousands of new coronavirus cases every day.

On this Tuesday, June 30, episode of Sundial: Florida & New York’s Responses To The Pandemic Florida’s coronavirus cases continue to trend upwards as the state has become a new hotspot for the virus. It has added tens of thousands of cases over the past week, bringing the total to more than 156,000. This comes as former hotspots like New York have seen a decline in new COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.

Statues and monuments linked to slavery are being taken down — sometimes forcefully by protesters themselves — across the United States as people grapple with the painful history that they often memorialize.

On this Monday, June 29th Episode of Sundial Tweet from the Villages goes Viral A two minute video posted on Twitter from the Villages, a large retirement community in central Florida, has further fueled the conversation around racism and our politics . There’s a confrontation between Trump supporters and a group of protestors -- you can hear protesters calling the Trump supporters racists and you can hear one Trump supporter saying, “White power, white power.” Early Sunday morning, President

On this Thursday, June 25, episode of Sundial: Miami-Dade Mayor On COVID-19 And The Civilian Review Board Miami-Dade County leads the state in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths. On Wednesday, the county reported an additional 957 cases and 24 deaths. Some hospitals are finding their intensive care units are reaching close to capacity — Homestead Medical Center’s ICU beds were full as of Tuesday.

Florida’s COVID-19 cases continue to surge, making it one of the new hotspots in the country. In testimony to Congress this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci said there’s been a disturbing surge in new COVID cases in Arizona, Texas and Florida. South Florida remains the epicenter for the pandemic accounting for more than 50 percent of total cases statewide. '

On this Wednesday, June 24, episode of Sundial: Florida’s Ousted Data Scientist & Her Own COVID-19 Dashboard Rebekah Jones was a manager in the Florida Department of Health and played a critical role in creating the state’s COVID-19 dashboard. She says she was fired after refusing to manipulate data on the dashboard. A statement from the department says she was fired for “repeated acts of insubordination.”

On this Tuesday, June 23, episode of Sundial: Miami-Dade County Cities Requiring Masks Florida continues to see a rising number of coronavirus cases and municipalities are working to reduce the spread of the virus.

On this Monday, June 22, episode of Sundial: COVID-19 Cases In Florida Pass 100,000 Florida reached a grim milestone on Monday with a total of more than 100,000 COVID-19 cases . Half of those are in South Florida.

Juneteenth commemorates the day emancipation reached enslaved people in the deepest parts of the South. It wasn't until June 19, 1865, two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, that Union Gen. Gordon Granger and more than a thousand U.S. troops went into Galveston, Texas and shared the news of freedom with the 250,000 enslaved people in the state .