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Palm Beach County budget vote Tuesday night
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County commissioners meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday night to decide whether to increase property tax rates for the third year in a row or order further spending cuts to avoid a $40 million budget shortfall. Tuesday is the......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Palm Beach County, Budgets and Budgeting, Boynton Beach, Property Tax
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Palm Beach County Commission votes tonight on budget, tax rate
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County commissioners tonight decide whether to impose deeper spending cuts or raise property tax rates for the third year in a row to avoid a budget shortfall. The County Commission meets at 6 p.m. to take the final......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Palm Beach County Commission, Budgets and Budgeting, Property Tax
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Palm Beach County budget cuts target sheriff, parks programs
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County's budget cuts proposed Monday target the sheriff's office as well as popular parks programs. Now the County Commission will have to decide whether to follow through with deeper cuts to public safety spending as well as cutting......Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Palm Beach County, Health, Budgets and Budgeting, Florida
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Palm Beach County budget fight kicks off at Monday meeting
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County???s looming budget fight gets its first public airing Monday night, when the County Commission holds a rare evening meeting to discuss potential cuts. Past county spending combined with the decline in property tax revenues during the...Tags: Palm Beach County, Budgets and Budgeting, Florida, Property Tax
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Sink is endorsed by two dozen sheriffs
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has added 24 Florida sheriffs — and three former sheriffs — to her list of endorsements. That makes a law-enforcement trifecta for her, having earlier won the nod of the Police Benevolent... -
Recent history gives the edge to sheriffs in county budget showdowns
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsRecent history doesn???t bode well for Palm Beach County commissioners if they end up in a budget showdown with Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. Bradshaw and the commission at times this year have been at odds over the sheriff???s nearly $500 million......Tags: Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Drugs and Medicines, Palm Beach County, Budgets and Budgeting
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Palm Beach County ponders another $6 million in last-minute budget cuts
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County budget planners on Thursday highlighted options for nearly $6 million in additional budget cuts, but recommended that the County Commission instead stick with plans to boost property tax rates 9 percent. The commission on Tuesday is...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, State Budgets, Government Debt
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Sheriff money could salvage arts programs
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsSheriff Ric Bradshaw may have found a way to help pay for arts programs that ended up on Palm Beach County???s budget chopping block. The County Commission plans to cut $262,000 sought by the county???s Cultural Council for everything from......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Drugs and Medicines, Health, Budgets and Budgeting
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County Commission calls for changing state law to cut sheriff's personnel costs
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsTo try to rein in personnel costs at the Palm Beach County Sheriff???s Office, the County Commission wants state lawmakers to change a specially crafted protection for sheriff???s employee benefits. The Florida Legislature in 2004 approved a measure...Tags: Florida Legislature, Career and Workplace, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Budgets and Budgeting
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Palm Beach County could opt for local prescription drug registry
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsPalm Beach County officials Thursday floated the idea of implementing a local prescription drug registry if a planned statewide registry gets scrapped. The registry is called for by local leaders and law enforcement agencies to help target ???pill mills??...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Hospitals and Clinics, Drugs and Medicines, Pain, Prescription Drugs
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Allen West says legitimate security concerns shouldn???t create police state
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsCongressman Allen West said Tuesday the response to the Arizona shootings that wounded one of his colleagues and left six dead shouldn???t result in so much security that people live in fear in a ???police state.??? ???The worst thing that......Tags: Elections, Allen West, Washington (U.S. state), Arizona, Clubs and Associations
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Sheriffs, police chiefs offer money for pill database
Sheriffs and police chiefs from across Florida offered Monday to pay for a controversial database to track pain-pill prescriptions, a state project that legislators have so far declined to fund.
The lack of definite funding source has been one of the...Tags: Winter Park, Satellite Beach, Contracts, Pam Bondi, Oviedo
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Apr 26, 2011
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