HERMINE'S SUNSHINE STARE

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It may be arriving to the center of the state, but Floridians there could experience their first hurricane ever as the sunshine state's remarkable 11-year dry streak comes to an end.

Tropical Storm Hermine is forecast to make landfall somewhere in the Big Bend area along the Gulf of Mexico coast. It may arrive as a strong tropical storm or a weak hurricane.

US ELECTORAL OBSERVATIONS

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Our present political pollution must be immediately cleaned up if we are to improve our vile national climate.

The upcoming presidential debates must concentrate on the issues and not personal attacks. Candidates should prioritize difficult issues like education, job growth, social security as they pertain to medicare, fiscal responsibility, and intergenerational equity.

They must outline their plans to slow the rate of growth in health care costs that threatens many Americans. How will they encourage the country to save and reduce our dependency on the foreign lenders? How will they emphasize statutory budget controls, entitlement reform, current tax policies and encourage bipartisan action to review all issues and make recommendations with a guaranteed up or down vote by Congress?

We need to elect a president who will solve many critical issues, unite all Americans and educate the public to seek meaningful reforms.

“El Canario”

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“El Canario” performs live in The Bronx. The 36th ANNIVERSARY SEASON with a special tribute concert featuring The Showman JOSE ALBERTO “EL CANARIO” and SEPTETO SANTIAGUERO, together for the first time at Lehman Center since their joint LATIN GRAMMY® win for the Best Traditional Tropical Album Tributo A Los Compadres: Don't Cry For Me; No Quiero Llanto. The Saturday, April 15th performance begins at 8pm. With special guests, former Los Van Van singers MAYITO RIVERA and PEDRITO CALVO. Produced by Lehman Center and José Raposo.

Political Chickens?

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Thick as a brick and dumb as they come. TRUMPENANIETO. https://youtu.be/u9bk2MrMGaA https://youtu.be/5IpYOF4Hi6Q Shame on both of you. Qué Verguenza!

Trump announces surprise meeting with Mexican President @CNNPolitics http://cnn.it/2bYWFz7

Vicente Fox: 'I really apologize' for Trump's Mexico visit http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-mexico-visit-vicente-fox-22…

In political gamble, Trump to make surprising trip to Mexico http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Articl…

FLY ME TO THE MAN

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A historic commercial flight is flying from US to Cuba for the first time in a half century. This trip is first regular US commercial flight between the two countries in more than 50 years.

JetBlue Airways inaugural flight is the very first of its kind since 1961. The flight between Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the central Cuban city of Santa Clara is a historic one for The Castro regime.

The Great Wall of Savas

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It’s an art-on-the-walls event with a constant rotation of artists. The Story of the Wall NYC entrepreneur Savas Tsitiridis grew up in Queens where he still runs some of his businesses.

Savas is an art collector and a defender of Street Art, who has taken over the exteriors of a large Yellow Taxi garage in Queens.

Savas Tsitiridis, President, and CEO of United Taxi Management Group Inc. of New York City is a principal in Dispatch Taxi Affiliation. Mr. Tsitiridis immigrated to the United States from his native Greece in 1973.

REGISTER TO VOTE

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CITY IMAGES is excited to be part of a national effort to strengthen our community by registering voters on September 27, 2016, also known as National Voter Registration Day.

First started for the 2012 presidential election, National Voter Registration Day has become a 50-state holiday when thousands of organizations and volunteers organize to ensure our families, friends, and neighbors are registered to vote.

Most Dangerous Cities

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These are reportedly the latest and most up to date figures. Holding the first position among the world's most dangerous cities with 300,000 or more inhabitants is Caracas with a rate of 119.87 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

Having had the first for four consecutive years, San Pedro Sula (111.03) moved into second place, to achieve a significant decrease in the number of homicides.

San Salvador, a city I know all too well landed in the third position (108.54), Acapulco fourth (104.73) and the fifth to Maturin (86.45).

TROUBLE AHEAD?

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The USA appears to be facing a very unusual triple tropical threat from Mother Nature.

According to weather forecasters, two tropical depressions are going to soak portions of both the East Coast and Gulf Coast, while a hurricane takes aim on Hawaii.

Both depressions could potentially become tropical storms by Tuesday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Depression 8 should bring heavy rain, gusty winds, and rough surf to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Tuesday.

RIP Gene Wilder

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Gene Wilder was k/a Jerome Silberman, a professional American stage, and screen comic actor, as well as a screenwriter, film director, and author.