Photo: Getty Images
BUD'S BLOG THURSDAY, JUNE 8th, 2023
We'll bring you special live coverage and commentary on the heavy smoke and historically bad air quality plaguing most of the Northeastern U.S. The smoke, so thick in places that it's blotted out the sun completely, is pouring out of Canada where hundreds of wildfires continue to rage out of control.
One of our top flight Accu-Weather meteorologists joins us live.
Newsradio WFLA National Correspondent Erin reports live from Connecticut
My daughter, Carolyn is in Syracuse where the smoke and air quality has been worse than anywhere, and she has some amazing first-hand accounts of what it's been like there.
Governor Ron DeSantis has taken his presidential campaign to the southern border where we'll hear him lay out plans to create a nationwide coalition of fellow Governors and top law enforcement officials aimed at dealing with immigration issues President Biden is largely ignoring. I like what I'm hearing from DeSantis and think you will too if you want something done about illegal immigration!
I have two entries for you in our Central Florida File:
As I predicted, Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings is starting to talk about taking another shot at getting a penny sales tax hike passed to fund major transportation projects. I campaigned against the sales tax hike in 2022 and it went down to defeat, and I'll tell you why I'll be campaigning against the sales tax hike again if Demings tries to get it on the 2024 ballot!
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/sales-tax-increase-transportation-redo-214700589.html
How about this! Orlando Magic player Jonathan Isaac who courageously stood for the National Anthem a couple of years ago when everyone else on the took a knee, is coming out with an anti-woke, pro-Christian line of sports apparel. He'll tell us what it's all about and why he's doing it !
Mike Pence has just made history by entering the presidential race! By so doing, Trump's former Vice President becomes the first VP in American history to run for President against the President who put him on the ticket!
We'll hear Pence rip into Trump and say why he should never be allowed to be President again.
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/pence-announces-campaign-blast-trump
And we'll hear Trump's new ad, which blasts his political enemies who are attacking him like a pack of rabid wolves!
It looks like Ukraine has begun it's long awaited counter offensive against the Russians, and Newsradio WFLA National Correspondent Rory O'Neill will be on the story for us and have the latest from the fields of battle!
https://www.politico.eu/article/has-ukraines-counter-offensive-finally-begun/
Olsen on Law with Alan and attorney Tom Olsen-today's topic: How concerned should you be about those TV commercials warning that someone might be out to steal the title to your home?