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BY BEN CONARCK AND ELIZABETH KOH A report by the Center on Bud- people who gained access in expan- on Budget and Policy Priorities report Miami-based Health Jus- WEEKEND FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau get and Policy Priorities, a Washing- sion states would have otherwise died. used a data analysis by the National tice Project, said the results were not TALLAHASSEE — Former Gov. ton think tank, released last week But Florida is on the opposite end Bureau of Economic Research. surprising to anyone who has stud- Rick Scott and Republican lawmak- said states that expanded Medic- of that equation. According to the To arrive at those numbers, ied the “coverage gap” where an esti- ers’ decision not to expand Medic- aid showed significant reductions in report’s estimates, Florida likely suf- researchers joined two sprawling mated 850,000 Floridians reside — TENSION HIGH AFTER aid under the Affordable Care Act is death rates for older adults who fell fered the second-highest total of data sets for what they said was a those who earn too much to receive likely costing lives, according to new into the income brackets that allowed deaths in that period — 2,776 first-of-its-kind national study, add- Medicaid, but not enough to qualify DEPUTY SHOOTING research on mortality rates for older them to gain the coverage. The — attributed to not expanding Medic- ing new metrics to the debate on for subsidies to buy a plan through adults who would have benefited report cited research estimating that, aid, trailing only , which has an Medicaid expansion. Alison Yager, the federal marketplace. Sen. Rick PAGE 10 from an expansion of the program. between 2014 and 2017, some 19,200 estimated 2,920 deaths. The Center director of policy advocacy for the See MEDICAID, 14A Scott OF UNARMED MAN

FLORIDA IN FOCUS: CLIMATE CHANGE $300M Ready for some Heat puts troops, bonus Sun(SHINE) plan for The big art festival brings 16 new murals to St. Pete. PAGE 24 A SURVIVOR RECALLS FIERY readiness at risk schools I-75 CRASH Gov. Ron DeSantis As George Pagan hit the rolls out a new brakes of his Ford work van, Bases in Florida, in particular, could lose training days as he glanced in the rear mirror. rising temperatures make conditions too . program to reward That’s when he saw a semi- state’s top teachers. trailer truck sliding sideways right for him. The violent series BY JEFFREY S. SOLOCHEK of crashes Wednesday night Times Staff Writer killed two people and injured Saying he wants to recog- five. Local, 3A nize “really great teachers,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thurs- Jim Damaske/tbt* Please turn to your day unveiled a $300 million pocket Constitution bonus program to replace the “Best and Brightest” bonus he Hurricane Hermine’s havoc continues PAGE 9 Could President deemed confusing. be impeached, removed from Combined with his $600 office and then run again for million proposal to boost Flor- president in 2020? Good ques- ida’s minimum teacher sal- tion. Focus: Fact Check, 7A ary, the pay package would be the “most Tech Data buyer far-reach- 325,400 known for its moves ing and Apollo Global Management, robust pol- *Tampa Bay’s FREEDAILY newspaper An edition of the the private equity firm that icy that has seeks to buy Tech Data, is an been offered in our state Boomers aggressive buyer of compa- nies. Business, 9A in a long, long time,” DeSantis Gov. Ron Just a few of her said during DeSantis favorite things a news con- Star of stage and screen Julie ference at Vero Beach High Andrews opens up to fans in a School. friendly question-and-answer In all, he said, it would session at Ruth Eckerd Hall. affect nearly 80 percent of the Front Row, 7B state’s public school teachers, with some seeing their com- Times pensation increase as much as Crews in August prepare KC-135s for evacuation from MacDill Air Force Base ahead of Hurricane Dorian. MacDill now sees 15 percent. Local weekly audience E MOV E’V ED about 20 days a year with a heat index of 100 degrees. By midcentury, it could see more than 100 days. “This is a priority for this W Looking for upcoming legislative session,” entertainment news? DeSantis said. BY ALEX HARRIS nesses and injuries are on the rise in topped the charts for bases due to see the The plan, as outlined by ETC is now called every branch of the military. Last year, biggest increase in days with a heat index education commissioner Front Row, and it has n a military base, a black flag nearly 2,800 service members suffered above 100 degrees. Richard Corcoran, would pay moved toward the back is bad news. That means it’s heatstroke or heat exhaustion, a roughly The analysis didn’t include the Coast bonuses to teachers and prin- of Sports. too hot outside to do anything 50 percent jump from 2014. Guard, and the climate model the Union cipals in schools based on strenuous, so training and “I think most of us, if we hear there of Concerned Scientists used only cov- their growth in the state’s A-F missions are put off until con- are tens of thousands of cases of heat ers the contiguous U.S., so the Keys didn’t school grading system. Looking for the ditions improve. stress in our troops every year, our minds make the cut. The Naval Air Station Key Schools that see their • Daily Tampa Bay Times readers 799,000* Local section? It’s now OAs the climate changes, there could be would go to where they were deployed,” West was the star of an earlier Union points in the grading rise 6 combined with all the news plenty more black flag days ahead, espe- said Kristy Dahl, a senior climate sci- report, however. It found the 5,800-acre percent or more would qual- in this section every day cially in Florida, a new analysis from the entist at the Union of Concerned Sci- installation was more vulnerable to sea ify for the highest bonuses, except Sunday. Union of Concerned Scientists found. entists and the lead author of the study. rise than any other coastal base. with those that have gains America’s military bases could see an “But more than 90 percent of the military But while sea rise threatens the struc- of 3 to 5 percent in the next average of an extra month of dangerously cases of heatstroke happened right here tures of a base, heat primarily threatens level and those with 1 to 2 hot days by midcentury. In Florida, they at home.” the people who populate it. percent growth in the bot - Sunday Tampa Bay Times readers 755,400 Looking for the • could quadruple. Florida’s three major air force bases Heat illness isn’t just a medical con- tom tier. Educators at Title Times Pentagon data shows heat-related ill- — Homestead, MacDill and Tyndall — See MILITARY, 13A I schools, serving primar - Puzzle? ily low-income students, You can find it now in would get an amount double BayLink Monday through that awarded to non-Title I Saturday. On Sundays it will schools. appear inside a new Corcoran noted that about tbt* readers 280,900 Fun & Games section with 90 percent of the state’s Title • other puzzles, games Official can run, but not hide, online I schools earn C or lower in and comics. the grading system. 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Times Staff Writer Classified F Lottery 2A in a snap decision he’d come to you are going to see those Comics F Puzzles F LAND O’ LAKES — Kurt regret, Browning blocked per- scores increase exponentially,” Browning knew his bid for a haps his fiercest opponent — Corcoran said. third term as Pasco County Trinity resident Jim Stanley — The governor’s latest plan Rain, a t‑storm schools superintendent wouldn’t from his and Facebook won praise from others in the 8 a.m. Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. win universal acclaim. accounts. “reform” universe who have His critics surely would “ham- Bad . backed most aspects of Flor- mer” him on social media, “When a public official creates ida’s testing-based account- 71° 72° 69° 65° Browning predicted. He said a social media page … they have ability efforts. 70% chance of rain he’d steer clear of the negative created a public forum of sorts “We fully support increas- More, back page of Sports commentary, if at all possible. under the First Amendment, to ing teacher pay,” said Patri- But Browning peeked. which First Amendment rights cia Levesque of ExcelinEd, All brands combined with no duplication 1.3 million Several folks had taken to the attach, and they can’t block peo- the education foundation web to blast Browning as “inept,” ple,” said Barbara Petersen, the led by former Gov. . “corrupt” and worse. They longtime head of Florida’s First Times (2016) “Rewarding teachers and Vol. 136 No. 114 attacked his record, his deci- Amendment Foundation. Pasco school superintendent Kurt Browning reversed a principals who successfully © Times Publishing Co. sions, his demeanor. See TWITTER, 13A recent decision to block a critic on Twitter and Facebook. 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