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'Everyone's life became more expensive': Hurricane Maria hitting Puerto Ricans' pocketbooks
The aftermath of Hurricane Maria is hitting Puerto Ricans in their pocketbooks. Surviving for what is now more than five weeks without electricity and depending on bottled water is adding up for residents. “Everyone’s life became more expensive,” said Lizette Rodriguez, who lives in Caguas, but has been staying in her mother-in-law’s apartment in San Juan for the past two weeks.
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The Devastation of Puerto Rico
Distressed Puerto Rico is being made to take a loan out to perform constitutionally mandated tasks of the government. By Vijay Prashad.
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Tesla succeeds where Trump flails, brings power to Puerto Rico with solar panels
Five weeks after hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump’s team has only managed to restore power for a mere 26 percent of the island’s 3.5 million U.S. citizens. Meanwhile the tiny Trump-linked energy contractor that won a $300-million no-bid contract to rebuild the grid, Whitefish Energy, is also under fire.
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Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico
Tesla has used its solar panels and batteries to restore reliable electricity at San Juan's Hospital del Niño (Children's Hospital), in what company founder Elon Musk calls "the first of many solar+battery Tesla projects going live in Puerto Rico." The project came about after Puerto Rico was hit by two devastating and powerful hurricanes in September, and Musk reached out about Tesla helping.
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Whitefish Energy contract bars government from auditing deal
A deal reached between the government and a small Montana energy company located in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown prohibits the government from reviewing labor costs or profits related to the company's relief efforts in Puerto Rico.
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Nurses returning from Puerto Rico accuse the federal government of leaving people to die
"We cannot be silent while millions of people continue to endure these conditions."
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Puerto Rico's infrastructure will be rebuilt by a 2-person company with ties to Ryan Zinke
Puerto Rico's infrastructure is in desperate need of repair, which makes it all the more puzzling that the commonwealth's state-owned utility hired an obscure Montana firm to do the job. Whitefish Energy, which was founded in 2015, signed a $300 million contract with Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, according to The Washington Post. It did this instead of activating a "mutual aid" agreement it has with other utilities, one that has been used in other areas struck by natural disasters to speedily recover their infrastructure.
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Small company from Trump Interior chief's hometown wins massive contract to restore Puerto Rico's power
A small Montana company located in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's hometown has signed a $300 million contract to help get the power back on in Puerto Rico.
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Yes, Puerto Rico pays federal taxes. Here’s how much
Puerto Rican tax dollars have helped fund the the federal government, including the agencies that are now helping the island recover from Hurricane Maria.
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The U.S. could have avoided Puerto Rico’s water crisis
The numbers associated with the current situation in Puerto Rico, one month after Hurricane Maria struck the U.S. territory, are baffling. More than 2.5 million residents are still without power. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is able to offer 200,000 meals to Puerto Ricans daily — but it needs to feed 2 million people. Perhaps most baffling, or at least exasperating, President Donald Trump gives himself a perfect 10 for his response to the storm’s aftermath.
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Puerto Rico reaches out to Taliban for tips on getting US aid
Weeks after the island of Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria, huge swaths of the territory are still without power, running water, or transportation. But the governor of Puerto Rico is trying an innovative approach… By Joe Zieja. [Satire]
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Google's parent company has made internet balloons available in Puerto Rico, the first time it's offered Project Loon in the US
Google's parent Alphabet says its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria. Two of the search giant's "Project Loon" balloons are already over the country enabling texts, emails and basic web access to AT&T customers with handsets that use its 4G LTE network.
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Five former presidents are raising money for hurricane relief. Trump is playing golf.
Your friendly reminder that most of Puerto Rico is still without power.
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Trump gives his Puerto Rico response a 10 despite 85% of island still lacking electricity
Donald Trump says that his administrations response to the disaster in Puerto Rico deserves a grade of 10 out of 10, even though much of the island is still without power nearly a month after Hurricane Maria smashed through the US territory. The President boasted of his own administration’s work during a meeting in the Oval Office with the US territory’s governor, Ricardo Rossello. The Puerto Rican governor notably avoided the question when asked how he’d rate the US federal government’s response.
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She was 92, stranded in Puerto Rico nursing home. Her rescue: an Uber sent from Miami
The good news out of San Juan came in a hurry for Natascha Otero-Santiago but it wouldn’t last long: Her mother’s 92-year-old friend, stranded on the fifth floor of a nursing home with no power, finally had a seat waiting for her on a private jet. It was leaving in 90 minutes.
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Hospital ship empty as ill Puerto Ricans suffer
Sammy Rolon is living in a makeshift clinic set up at a school. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and is bedridden. He's waiting for surgery that was scheduled before Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico. Now, he can't even get the oxygen he needs. There is help available for the 18-year-old -- right offshore. A floating state-of-the-art hospital, the USNS Comfort, could provide critical care, his doctor says.
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Puerto Ricans pump drinking water from hazardous-waste
Some Puerto Rico residents are turning to a hazardous waste site for drinking water as the island continues to reel from Hurricane Maria.
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Trump mistakenly calls Virgin Islands governor as its president
President Trump said during a speech Friday that he’d recently met with the President of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who is him.
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Puerto Rico Relief Bill Cancels $16 Billion in Debt — But Not for Puerto Rico
The House bill cancels $16 billion of the National Flood Insurance Program’s debt while loaning Puerto Rico $5 billion – money it will have to pay back. By David Dayen.
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Only 16 percent of Puerto Rico has power 3 weeks after Hurricane Maria
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria made landfall, only 16 percent of Puerto Rico's residents have electricity, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. But the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said the number is more like 10 percent after an outage at one nuclear plant.
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