Christopher O’Donnell
Reporter at Tampa Bay Times
Health and medicine reporter for The Tampa Bay Times and as English as fish and chips. Millwall, Celtic, Barcelona.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Kimberly Leonard |Gary Fineout |Drew Dixon |Christopher O’Donnell
most Americans agree on: Members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade stocks. In today’s polarized political climate, there’s still one policy point There’s been a bipartisan group workingto ban the practice. Under current law, members are allowed to buy and sell stocks, even though they have the power to regulate companies. But they must quickly and publicly report their trades (which they don’t always do, to little consequence).
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1 month ago |
sacbee.com | Christopher O’Donnell
TAMPA, Fla. - Hope Florida helped more than 21,000 families referred to it by child protective investigators, according to the Florida Department of Children and Families. During a recent legislative hearing, the program's executive director credited it with helping to reduce the number of Florida children in foster care by 7,000. But others who are familiar with what the program does - and doesn't do - suggest such claims are exaggerated or false.
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1 month ago |
flcourier.com | Emily Mahoney |Bethany Barnes |Christopher O’Donnell |Chris Tisch
CLEARWATER — One person died and several passengers were injured Sunday night, April 27, after an aquatic hit-and-run crash slammed the Clear-water Ferry, a public water taxi touted for its convenience and safety, into a sandbar near the Memorial Causeway bridge. Clearwater officials announced three hours after the collision that the driver who they said fled the scene had been found by a partnering law enforcement agency.
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2 months ago |
sacbee.com | Christopher O’Donnell
TAMPA, Fla. - A vice president of an insurance brokerage firm and his accomplices targeted the homeless, the unemployed and those with mental health and substance abuse issues in a scheme to earn commission from fraudulent enrollments for the Affordable Care Act, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The scheme involved submitting false applications for individuals who were ineligible for subsidies offered for health insurance plans offered through the federal market place.
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2 months ago |
ems1.com | Christopher O’Donnell
By Christopher O’DonnellTampa Bay TimesPINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — As Pinellas County’s only Level II trauma center, Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital would be the main destination for ambulances in a major emergency event like a hurricane. But until recently, the emergency department of the city’s marque hospital only had room for four ambulances. The opening of a new ambulance bay on Friday leaves the 480-bed hospital better equipped to respond during disasters.
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