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Latest Sports News Updates Mr. Jacoby Brissett, Adding Brissett gives Florida two quarters All-America in 2011, his recruiting class. Dwyer (Palm Beach, Fla.) quarterback Mr. Jacoby Brissett ...Latest Sports News Updates Mr. Jacoby Brissett, Adding Brissett gives Florida two... more
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The scandal-rocked pro golfer has been spotted in Palm Beach, Fla., with none other than alleged mistress No. 1, Rachel Uchitel, sources told Entertainment Tonight.
The reported sighting comes just weeks after Woods announced on Dec. 11 that he was taking a break from professional golf to “focus my attention on being a better husband, father and person.”
full story and PHOTOS...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/tiger-woods-rachel-uchitel-spotted-partying-together-in-palm-beach/The scandal-rocked pro golfer has been spotted in Palm Beach, Fla., with none other... more
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With sponsors beginning to drop him and $110 million potentially threatened, Tiger Woods’ career isn’t really in the green. But if recent reports are correct, we expect that Elin Nordegren’s seeing red — sources have said that both Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel took off for Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday.
Full Story and PHOTOS...http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/was-tiger-woods-with-rachel-uchitel-on-his-yacht/With sponsors beginning to drop him and $110 million potentially threatened, Tiger... more
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On Election Day, Obama supporter Faye Bailey woke up before dawn to head to her polling location.
On Election Day, Obama supporter Faye Bailey woke up before dawn to head to her polling location. Voters feared voting problems in Palm Beach, the center of the 2000 election recount, and anticipated long waits. But after a day of less-than-expected obstacles, Obama supporters cast their votes and declared a historic "victory".On Election Day, Obama supporter Faye Bailey woke up before dawn to head to her... more
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In the latest battle over how low a person can wear pants, a Florida judge struck down a law banning baggy pants, calling the measure unconstitutional, according to an Associated Press report.
The measure was initially approved by voters, and voted on last March, after the necessary 5,000 signatures were obtained to add the measure to the ballot.
Despite passage of the measure, the issue did not take center stage until a 17-year-old was arrested in Riviera Beach in southeast Florida for wearing pants that exposed his underwear. The teen, not identified by name, was jailed overnight.
A local report says the teen was held due to a history of marijuana use.
The judge in the case, Palm Beach Circuit Judge Paul Moyle was simply not having it.
Read the whole story here ...
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7732In the latest battle over how low a person can wear pants, a Florida judge struck down... more
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In the heart of the black community,and among some of the oldest neighborhoods in The City of West Palm Beach, at the intersection of Tamarind Avenue and 25th Street, sits a 1 1/2 acre lot containing the remains of some 674 unidentified men, women, and children; victims of The Great Okeechobee Hurricane. They were migrant farmers and laborers of western Palm Beach County. Mostly black people, they were segregated even in death and were interred without coffins, as wood was reserved for whites only.
Florida author Zora Neale Hurston described the mass burial in her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God: "... Don't let me ketch none uh y'all dumpin' white folks, and don't be wastin' no boxes on colored," a guard in the book says. "They's too hard tuh git ahold of right now."
In life, they helped turn a South Florida swamp into a booming tropical mecca. In death, they were pitched into a trench, and left to be ignored for three-quarters of a century, neglected and nearly forgotten. A sewer-treatment plant and slaughter house were built adjacent to the site and a road was paved over a section of the grave.
80 years later, community leaders since have come together and worked to have the site beautified and registered as a National Historic Landmark, insuring the site and the dignity of those who died in Florida's most deadly hurricane is preserved.
The September 16, 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane is the second most deadly storm in United States history. In total, the hurricane killed at least 4,078 people and caused around $100 million ($1 billion 2006 US dollars) in damages over the course of its path.
In the heart of the black community,and among some of the oldest neighborhoods in The... more
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I always wondered about the charge on my Florida Power and Light electric bill that was supposed to make me feel good for paying an extra $9.75 per month for “Sunshine Energy”.
I pay it. I'm all for solar energy.
Still, it irks me that we have to pay extra for a service—clean, renewable energy in Florida—that the utility should provide as a requirement by state regulators.
Given that providers of electricity are regulated utilities, the logic of paying extra for the utility to provide clean energy escaped me. FPL is a very profitable company, after all.
So I paid the $9.75 per month, but mistrustful that I had been persuaded to pay extra for something FPL should have been doing for its customers all along.
There are many ways that electric utilities abuse the public interest. For one, utilities and the electricity they provide are big gears of the Growth Machine, right next to the massive investments by government that drive a whole set of smaller gears (down to the smallest public relations firm monitoring media criticism of electric utilities), putting large corporations on the same side of the ledger as agencies like Florida Department of Transportation, to name one.
Wires and cables, pipes, pumps and roads take precedence with very small windows of opportunity for influence by citizens. This is how natural gas pipelines get built in the middle of sugar fields. Or, how utilities like FPL try midnight deals in Glades County to put a coal-fired plant near the Everglades, or, slip past Miami county government in the effort to put two new nuclear reactors at Turkey Point, cooled by God knows what water.
More often than not, by the time common citizens see how growth is planned on their behalf, the infrastructure train has left the station. Then there is global warming.
For decades, electric utilities invested in suppressing the dialogue on climate change. They funded pseudo-science and worse. Along with oil and coal, electric utilities were principal agents thwarting initiatives and policy reforms that might have enhanced our standing in the world and secured our economy but for their actions. Of course, now things have changed. Duke Energy is green as a pea.
But back to my $9.75 per month, an extra charge by FPL (also, the largest producer of wind energy in the nation, but in Texas not Florida): not only does this back story give me reason to doubt my electric utility, how at any rate would I know that this money of mine was going to serve its stated purpose: development of alternative energy in Florida by FPL?
Apparently, the Florida Public Service Commission had the same question, too.
As reported by The Palm Beach Post last week, a probe of FPL’s “Sunshine Energy” program “began in September with requests to the company for documents and explanations. FPL repeatedly responded by filing records under seal, saying the related documents were “proprietary business information” and “contractual vendor data”. Finally, FPL opened its books.
“The bulk of the $9.5 million raised in FPL’s Sunshine Energy Program between 2004 and 2007 was paid to a contractor in Texas for salaries, office expenses, business travel, research, marketing and a public relations consultant to administer the program.” (Palm Beach Post, June 20, 2008, “Bulk of FPL money for renewable energy goes to start-up costs”)
“In the final report, released May 30, all of the findings were blacked out at the request of FPL. However, in papers filed with the state this week, FPL asked the commission to keep only a few sentences confidential because it is “proprietary business information”.
To make a long story, short: it is clear as day how the public has been abused by FPL.
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Follow the link for the rest of the story.I always wondered about the charge on my Florida Power and Light electric bill that... more
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In case you haven’t heard, Tri-Rail is in big trouble.
Larry Lebowitz wrote a piece a couple days ago (sorry for the tardiness in reporting) outlining the impending doom for the Tri-County commuter rail line:
Tri-Rail may be facing no weekend service and a 60 percent cut in weekday trains in the fall after the state Legislature failed Friday to pass a major commuter rail bill that jeopardizes funding for the South Florida train.
Tri-Rail has been battling for years to get the Legislature to approve a dedicated funding source so it doesn’t have to seek money annually from Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.
Without dedicated funding, the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority (SFRTA), which operates Tri-Rail, is preparing for massive service cuts starting in October.
Tri-Rail executive director Joseph Giulietti said the agency would have to kill its entire Saturday, Sunday, and holiday service — about 15 trains a day — and reduce weekday commuter service from 50 trains down to 20.
SFRTA had been hoping two years ago that the Legislature would pass a measure that would allow Tri-Rail counties to hold a referendum on initiating a $2 a day fee on most rental cars that would provide a dedicated funding source to Tri-Rail. The result? Transit-hater Jeb Bush vetoed the bill. This year, two more bills pushing the $2 rental car fee passed the House, but died in the Senate without a vote a few days ago.
So this is how it will likely go down now: Palm Beach County will cut its share of funding down to the legal limit of $4.23 million. Of course, Miami-Dade and Broward will follow suit, resulting in an $18 million dollar loss for Tri-Rail.
This is almost unfathomable considering the following:
* Tri-Rail is one of the fastest growing transit systems in America
* A $440 million doubling-tracking project was completed less than two years ago
* Ridership is up 28% from this time last year, largely stemming from service increase
* Tri-Rail provides the only regional north-south transit service between Palm Beach and Miami-Dade Counties
Can it get much worse for transit in South Florida? We finally have a successful transit system that serves a critical role in the regional transportation network, it’s seeing rapid growth every year, and that’s not even good enough? Shameful, embarrassing, moronic — these words that immediately come to mind don’t even do justice here.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/519255.html
http://www.cfrail.com/newsevents.asp?type=news&id=41
http://www.mcall.com/topic/sfl-0430trirail,0,6237169.storyIn case you haven’t heard, Tri-Rail is in big trouble.
Larry Lebowitz wrote a... more
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