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Lobbying 2013 Legislature cost $34.2M
TALLAHASSEE — Insurance carriers, sugar growers pushing to lessen their pollution costs, telecommunications giant AT&T and an Internet-cafe software company dominated spending on lobbyists to influence the Florida Legislature during the first...Tags: Career and Workplace, Government, Politics, Labor Legislation, Business Enterprises
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Scott's property-tax promise backfired
TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott was following a well-read playbook when he campaigned in 2010 to kick-start the economy in part with deep property-tax cuts. It just didn't come off as scripted. Capping out-of-control property-tax spikes was once a...
Tags: Politics, Orlando, Regional Authority, Teaching and Learning, Broward County
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South Florida's weird weather: Some explanations
Contrary to popular belief, South Florida is not full of hot air.
Some of it can be rather cool, even in summer. Indeed, at any given moment, more than 100 weather stations — scattered between Homestead and Jupiter — usually register readings...Tags: WSVN, Pacific Ocean, WSFL, Miami-Dade County, Alaska
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South Florida's tougher new water restrictions will start Tuesday
![Once-a-week watering limits beginning Tuesday are intended to trigger what regulators call a "change in culture" needed to protect South Florida's water supply.](http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2008-01/34721926-13203207.jpg "Once-a-week watering limits beginning Tuesday are intended to trigger what regulators call a "change in culture\" needed to protect South Florida's water supply.")
South Florida Sun-SentinelOnce-a-week watering limits beginning Tuesday are intended to trigger what regulators call a "change in culture" needed to protect South Florida's water supply. After the driest back-to-back years on record, South Florida water managers are imposing...Tags: Tamarac, Port Everglades, Water, Orlando, Weather Reports
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South Florida golf courses could avoid some water restrictions
South Florida Sun-SentinelSouth Florida lawns and gardens face the prospect of year-round watering limits, but new rules would allow the sprinklers to keep firing on greens and fairways. The South Florida Water Management District takes aim at landscaping in its plan for...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Tropical Weather, Clubs and Associations, Sports, Jesus Rodriguez
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South Florida Water Management District spends tax dollars at lavish resorts
South Florida Sun-SentinelSouth Florida's top water managers, advisers and staff have spent more than $219,000 in five years on overnight meetings at resorts from Key Largo to Walt Disney World, billing the public for rooms and receptions, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has found....Tags: Florida Keys Vacations, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Career and Workplace
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Costs grow for Everglades reservoir left unfinished by sugar deal
South Florida Sun-SentinelTack on another $12 million to the taxpayers' tab for the cost of a massive, unfinished reservoir rendered obsolete by a proposed half-billion-dollar Everglades-restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. A suggested $12 million settlement to terminate...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Florida, State Budgets, Palm Beach County, Miccosukee Tribe
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Unusual rain pattern helps create riot of roadside color
Surely the six days of soggy weather last week caused some sort of mayhem like destructive flooding, heavy swarms of mosquitoes or a rash of new sinkholes. Not so much. But the weather that lurked about much of Florida last week, looking on radar like a...
Tags: Orlando International Airport, Orange County (Florida), Volusia County, Wildflowers, Highway Transportation
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Shooting range proposed for Mecca Farms
There will be gunfire rather than scientific discovery under a proposal to open a shooting range on Palm Beach County's Mecca Farms — once the intended home of The Scripps Research Institute. A new state plan calls for building a shooting range,...
Tags: Jupiter, Environmental Pollution, Wildlife, Palm Beach County, Florida Atlantic University
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Usually sunny, South Florida's spring turns stormy and wet
The jet stream, a powerful river of air in the upper atmosphere, has radically altered South Florida's weather. Usually warm and sunny this time of year, it's turned wet and wild. On Thursday, thunderstorms and heavy rains caused a widespread mess....
Tags: Palm Beach County School District, Tropical Storms, Miami Beach, Dania Beach, Deerfield Beach
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Costly new levee to guard against Palm Beach County flooding threatens wetlands
Flooding fears lingering from Tropical Storm Isaac's historic soaking of Palm Beach County shouldn't result in destroying wetlands to add a new levee, according to environmental advocates. After Isaac, concerns about a potential breach of the damaged...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Wildlife, Palm Beach County, Rick Scott, Hurricane Isaac (2012)
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In Florida, whose water is it, anyway?
The next time you go to your kitchen faucet for a drink, think about who owns that water.
Because for every expert who says it belongs to you, others counter you merely have Florida's permission to use it, and you pay only for having water sanitized...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Orange County (Florida), Tampa, Justice System, Lawyers
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