When the National Hurricane Center’s new director was growing up on the Florida and Texas coasts, tropical storms frightened him. Decades later, Rick Knabb understands storms better, but he still doesn’t like them. “I’m still very scared of hurricanes,” says …
Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government’s hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday. The promotion to director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami fulfills …
Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed a new director of the Illinois Department of Insurance. Andrew Boron is returning to state government after working as a liaison to the state’s insurance department for an insurance company. Before that, he was deputy …