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Crist keeps pushing for U.S. Sugar land deal
By admin at 18 March, 2010, 3:24 pm
Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday toured the St. Lucie River to keep up his sales pitch for a $536 million Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. The governor proposes buying 73,000 acres of farmland south of Lake Okeechobee that would be used to build reservoirs and treatment areas Read More
Read More >>West Boca group endorses Deutch
By admin at 18 March, 2010, 2:40 pm
If it’s up to West Boca business leaders, Democrat Ted Deutch will replace U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler’s seat in the 19th congressional district. WestPAC, the political action committee of the West Boca Chamber of Commerce, has endorsed Deutch over Ed Lynch, the Republican candidate, and Jim Read More
Read More >>Bank tellers to robber: Get lost!
For the second time in a week, a South Florida bank teller just said no to someone attempting to rob the bank. Last Thursday, a would-be robber in Hollywood left with insufficient funds after a teller said no, police said on Monday, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel . It probably helped that Read More
Read More >>Big stink at the airport
By admin at 13 March, 2010, 10:00 am
There’s a big stink at the Palm Beach County International Airport. It seems the carpeting in the security checkpoint areas has become fouled by the odoriferous feet of passengers who must remove their shoes as a security measure, reports the Palm Beach Post . The smell from the foot-funk Read More
Read More >>Red Cross boss Larry Casey resigns
Casey For the second time since 2007, the Palm Beach area chapter of the Red Cross is losing its CEO after just a brief tenure. Larry Casey , the visible frontman of the disaster-responding charity, told Page2Live he’ll step down on April 9. He has been leading the non-profit’s Read More
Read More >>Everglades land deal prompts conflict questions on water board
By admin at 11 March, 2010, 9:30 pm
Thursday’s high-stakes vote on the fate of Gov. Charlie Crist’s $536 million land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. raised potential conflict of interest issues with differing results. The board of the South Florida Water Management District on Thursday agreed to extend the March 31 deadline on the Read More
Read More >>John Goodman crash victim’s family “pleased” with probe, but Goodman was “reckless”
By Beach Blogger at 11 March, 2010, 5:02 pm
John Goodman, at a polo function with actress Hillary Duff (Click on the photo for more) The family of fresh college graduate Scott Wilson , who was killed Feb. 12 when his car was broadsided in rural Wellington by International Polo Club Palm Beach boss John Goodman , is “very Read More
Read More >>Sue the bastards! Disgraced pol Jim Exline in insurance hell
Exline Disgraced former West Palm Beach City Commissioner Jim Exline this week filed a lawsuit against a woman who caused a chain collision in Lake Worth last year, ultimately injuring him. I’m told the woman’s insurance company, State Farm , wants to pay Exline $6,500 for the Read More
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