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Courtroom Drama Over Crist's Everglades Land Deal
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsThe months-long legal fight over Gov. Charlie Crist???s blockbuster Everglades land deal finally delivered a ???Law & Order??? moment Thursday during a tense courtroom standoff between South Florida???s top water official and one of Big Sugar???s toughest...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Charlie Crist, Everglades, Court Administration, Miccosukee Tribe
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South Florida water managers try to make a splash before Tea Party protest
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsTaking a pre-emptive PR strike against Wednesday???s planned Tea Party protest, South Florida Water Management District officials this week have been trying to spread the word that they don???t propose raising property taxes to pay for a half-billion-...Tags: Property Tax, Executive Branch, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Charlie Crist, Politics
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Tea party activists converge on Palm Beach County to challenge Glades deal
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsTea party activists sent out cookies to get attention. The hook: U.S. Sugar. Get it? Tea party activists from throughout Florida have their sights set on the Everglades-U.S. sugar land deal championed by Gov. Charlie Crist. Tea partiers from......Tags: Demonstration, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Charlie Crist, Palm Beach County, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Rooney steps down from water district before big land deal decision
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsState House candidate Patrick Rooney Jr. has resigned his seat on the South Florida Water Management District board ??? avoiding a potentially controversial decision on a proposed $536 million Everglades restoration land deal. Rooney since 2007...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Government, Executive Branch, Charlie Crist, Everglades
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Newell's Letter From Prison
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsImprisoned former Palm Beach County commissioner Warren Newell wrote a letter to his former colleagues requesting records related to his case. Newell sent a July 11 letter to Commission Chairman Jeff Koons requesting notes from a discussion he had with......Tags: Metal and Mineral, Crime, Law and Justice, Science and Technology, Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance
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Rick Scott gets rough reception at Tea Party protest over Crist's Everglades land deal
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsRepublican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott Thursday spoke out against a proposed $197-million Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. ??? and ended up in the midst of a Tea Party spat over the governor???s race. Scott was nearly drowned....Tags: Demonstration, Hospitals and Clinics, Executive Branch, Companies and Corporations, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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Tea Party willing to sacrifice $10 million of taxpayer money to sink Crist's U.S. Sugar land deal
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsTea Party activists who preach fiscal responsibility are willing to sacrifice $10 million of South Florida taxpayers??? money to try to scrap a $197 million Everglades restoration land deal. Tea Party protests failed to stop the South Florida Water...Tags: Lake Okeechobee, Renovation, Farms, Charlie Crist, Everglades
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Broward property tax riddle: Falling values, rising bills
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsNow that annual property tax notices have started arriving in Broward homeowners' mailboxes, I've started hearing the usual annual riddle: How come my home's value keeps sinking but my proposed tax bill is going up? The simple answer: Tax rates......Tags: Property Tax, Homes, Hospitals and Clinics, Yom Kippur, Dania Beach
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State, Feds ink deal to end Everglades funding flap
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsSouth Florida water managers and federal officials had their kumbaya moment Thursday when they signed a new agreement for how to pay for Everglades restoration. The state and federal government for years sparred over how to split the multibillion-dollar...Tags: Everglades, Water Restrictions, Politics
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Squabble Turns Into "Let's Make A Deal"
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsTiming can be tricky when it comes to real estate, and politics. On Tuesday, Palm Beach County commissioners publicly criticized South Florida Water Management District officials for how they handled a proposed $1.34 billion land deal with U.S. Sugar...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Everglades, Lifestyle and Leisure, Palm Beach County, Dining and Drinking
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A sweet deal, but for who?
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsOn the surface, the state???s tentative deal to acquire U.S. Sugar and 187,000 acres near Lake Okeechobee for $1.7 billion for the sake of Everglades restoration doesn???t seem to have much downside. It supposedly wouldn???t require any tax increase,...Tags: Everglades
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Golf courses deserve watering exemption
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsSo, the permanent twice-a-week watering restrictions proposed by the South Florida Water Management District includes an exemption for golf courses. The easy thing to do is gripe-and-moan about the unfairness of it all, like why should a bunch of...Tags: Nature, Natural Resources, Golf, Wildlife, Endangered Species
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