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FPL seeks state approval to pass on cost of nuclear expansions to customers
South Florida Sun SentinelFlorida Power & Light Co. officials on Tuesday sought state approval to pass on the costs for expanding the utility's nuclear power plants to consumers — a $67 million cost next year. At the first of three Public Service Commission hearings in...Tags: Defense Equipment, Energy Resources, Florida, Consumers, Natural Resources
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Messages between commissioner Lisa Edgar and Jorge Chamizo
South Florida Sun-SentinelCommissioner Lisa Edgar and Jorge Chamizo, a lobbyist for several major electric utilities, exchange a brief conversation on legislative issues. Edgar said they did not discuss pending PSC matters. "I always think about [what I'm barred from discussing]...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, FPL Group
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Acreage family's joy laced with gloom: Will baby boy become cancer victim?
Palm Beach PostIn late 2007, when Yvette Peart's daughter Rodeania, 9, began having headaches, the mother thought she knew why. "I had migraines myself when I was a girl -- 12 or 13," said Peart, 35. "Or I thought maybe Rodeania had eyestrain." She gave the girl...Tags: Headaches, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Health, Tumors
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Molecular studies institute opens in St. Lucie County
Treasure Coast NewspapersThe Treasure Coast officially became Florida's research coast Saturday, as more than 200 people celebrated the grand opening of the Torrey Pines Institute of Molecular Studies and all it has to offer for Florida's and St. Lucie County's future. "Today we...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Port St. Lucie (St. Lucie, Florida), University of South Florida, Health, Florida
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Highway rest areas no place to let your guard down
Sun-Sentinel.comWARNING: If you are traveling by car this summer, stay alert when stopping at highway rest areas. Meant to serve as safe grounds for a nap, snack or bathroom break, highway rest stops throughout Florida and across the country sometimes become the...Tags: Nevada, Road Transportation, Drug Trafficking, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Missouri
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Fla. woman chooses to go jail over $7.45 bill
A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45. According to a police report, Maryanne O'Neill, 66, ordered coffee and a sandwich at a Waffle House restaurant on...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Misdemeanors
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Florida's Shame Day 4: Florida's new farms?
It was a great idea until the Florida Legislature ruined it. Read on. Spring 2001: What vision! For once Florida got ahead of its next land grab. Now that developers had pretty much paved the coasts from south to north, legislators realized that the...Tags: Justice System, Elections, Health, Florida, Local Government
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Florida's Shame -- Failure to launch
Did you enjoy your commute this morning? Neither did we. Seems to get worse every day whether you're coming or going. But don't you wonder why this is? Those of you here in 1985 probably remember hearing legislators tout a new law that said, once and for...Tags: Jeb Bush, Government, Laws, Elections, Florida
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Stimulus dollars headed to Treasure Coast this week
TCPalm.comThe first dollars from the $787 billion federal economic stimulus package arrive on the Treasure Coast this week. But the bigger ticket items -- the ones designed to create jobs -- are months away at the earliest. This week unemployment benefits in...Tags: Jim Turner, Engineering, Transportation, Crimes, Unemployment Benefits
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FEMA gave $21 million in Miami-Dade, where storms were 'like a severe thunderstorm'
Staff WritersThe four hurricanes that pummeled the rest of Florida hardly brushed Miami-Dade County. Only Hurricane Frances was a factor there -- packing the punch of a bad thunderstorm. Local officials described the damage as minimal. Yet more than 19,500 Miami-Dade...Tags: Disasters, Elections, Broward County, Insurance, Weather
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Storms' double punch has precedent
Miami BureauIn one of the cruelest twists of this history-making hurricane season, Jeanne plowed ashore late Saturday almost exactly where Frances did three weeks earlier. But that's not a first for Florida -- or even for the same stretch of coastline. At least...Tags: Disasters, Dan Brown , Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Broward County
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State of shock
Sentinel Staff WriterFlorida's fourth hurricane in six weeks ripped its way across the state Sunday -- killing at least six, leaving millions without electricity and adding new woes to an already agonizing hurricane season. Hurricane Jeanne drove ashore just before...Tags: Jeb Bush, Industrial Accidents, Palm Bay (Brevard, Florida), Space Programs, Building Material
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