ITT Sound Off: Living With Hurricanes

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Julio and guest co-host Renée Graham, opinion columnist at The Boston Globe, discuss the impact of Hurricane Ian in Florida, and recent polling of Latino voters and how it will impact the midterms. They also get into the controversy surrounding retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre, who used state welfare funds to finance his own projects in Mississippi.

ITT Staff Picks:

There are many reasons people decide to stay put during a hurricane. The Washington Post spoke to some Florida residents about why they didn’t evacuate when Ian hit.
Read the full report from the Pew Research Center on the Latino electorate.
Anna Wolfe reports on former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s involvement in helping send state welfare funds to finance Brett Favre’s volleyball stadium, for Mississippi Today.

Photo credit: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:23.0	Thank you.
0:34.3	From futuro medium.prx, it's in the thick.
0:37.0	I'm Julio Ricardo Arella.
0:38.4	And I'm René Graham, and this is ITT Sound off.
0:41.9	René Graham, one of my favorite opinion colonists from my hometown paper, The Boston Globe,
0:48.6	back at it with me.
0:51.2	Maria's like doing Hispanic Heritage Month.
0:54.3	It's the Maria knows Hispanic Heritage Month tour, but you know, she's doing great work
0:58.6	up there and keeping it real.
1:00.7	But welcome, René.
1:01.7	Let's just get to it.
1:02.7	All right.
1:03.7	Let's just get to it.
1:04.7	Okay.
1:05.7	All right.
1:06.7	So we're going to get to it with our first topic, which is the latest on Hurricane Ian,
1:09.1	which is a category for storm that made landfall in Florida on Wednesday.
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