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August 4, 2011
Florida AIDS Medicine Waiting List Longest in America
Flickr user: Sully PixelMore than 3,600 Floridians are on a government waiting list for AIDS medicine -- the longest list in the country, according to the national nonprofit the AIDS Institute. Of the needy patients, 886 live in Palm Beach and Broward counties.The medicine, which keeps patients h ... More >>
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August 5, 2011
Happy Weekend! Here Are Five Strangers Who Could Ruin Your Picnic
Schoschie via Creative Commons"This next song is also about my ex-girlfriend Moonray. It's called 'Soul of a Dragon-Hearted Angel'." As Floridians, we're fortunate enough to have picnic weather year-round plus acres of beautiful beach and public park space on which to spread a blanket or fire up ... More >>
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August 16, 2011
Florida's Jobs Situation: What Rick Scott Won't Tell You
Gov. Rick Scott has been proudly touting that Florida has created the second-most jobs in the country (behind Texas) since he took office, but here's what he won't tell you: Those new jobs suck.More specifically, since the governor took office in January, Florida workers have had lower hourly wag ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Florida Lost 22,100 Jobs in July, Second-Largest Drop in the Country
Thirty-one states added more jobs in the month of July, and Florida certainly wasn't one of them.According to the new monthly figures released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida lost 22,100 jobs in July, the second-largest drop nationwide, with Illinois losing 24,900.The ... More >>
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September 11, 2011
Half Baked: Avoiding the Snowbirds
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. Photo by Anthony Citrano Damn you snowbirds! "We can finally go out to eat again", it's not officially summer until my father, a South Floridian of almost 40 years, ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Five Restaurants or Bars That Fluffed a Neighborhood
Will KaPow! Noodle Bar change the neighborhood?Last week, several commenters questioned the opening of Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca, an area that's dominated by older folks, so I asked around about it. Will Boca embrace Kapow once it's open in November? "The Dubliner is the only place in Boca for yo ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Florida's Unemployment Rate Remains Unchanged... Again
via Flickr user brajeshwarFor the third straight month, Florida's unemployment rate is at 10.7 percent -- well above the national rate of 9.1 percent.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 1,400 fewer unemployed people in August than in July, ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
The Four Baddest Animals in Florida That Shouldn't Be Here
flickr.comA 20-year University of Florida study out last week says Florida has the most invasive reptiles and amphibians in the world. A day or two after that came out, state officials declared war on giant African snails in Miami-Dade County.Yep, Florida apparently has a nasty invasive species p ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Florida Is Home to the Second-Most Mass Layoffs in the Nation -- Again
stevewhibley.blogspot.comFor the second month in a row, Florida had more mass layoffs than every other state but California, according to statistics released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.According to the numbers from the BLS, Florida accounted for 78 of the nation's 961 mass layoffs in ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
Florida Has World's Worst Invasive Amphibian and Reptile Problem, According to UF Research
University of FloridaThis iguana doesn't belong in Florida, but here it is at someone's front door in Lake Worth.If you're looking for a reptile or amphibian species that "causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health," chances are, it's in Florida.According ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Party Bus Responsibly
University of FloridaThis iguana doesn't belong in Florida, but here it is at someone's front door in Lake Worth.If you're looking for a reptile or amphibian species that "causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health," chances are, it's in Florida.According ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Florida Death-Row Facts, Including Last-Meal Parameters and the Executioner's Paycheck
It's been nearly 20 months since the last execution of a prisoner by the State of Florida, and in anticipation of South Florida cop killer Manuel Valle's lethal injection at 4 p.m. today, we decided today would be a good day to drop some death-row knowledge.Valle, 61, was convicted of killing Cor ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
New Voting Laws in Florida and 13 Other States May Affect 5 Million Eligible Voters, Study Says
theoccultsection.comNew voting laws passed in 14 states -- states that control 171 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a presidential election -- could make voting "significantly harder" for more than 5 million people who are actually eligible to vote, according to a new study.As many as 1 m ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Rick Scott, "Worst Governor Ever" Electee, Confirms He'll Seek Reelection in 2014
worstgovernorever.comIt's no surprise by any stretch of the imagination, but Gov. Rick Scott has finally confirmed to the News Service of Florida that he's going to run for reelection in 2014.His announcement comes on the heels of being polled at the highest approval rating of his governorship -- ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Florida Employers Laid Off 1,638 Workers in September, According to Report
via Flickr user brajeshwarSeptember's numbers on employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics aren't due until Friday, but a private report says 1,638 Floridians were laid off last month.The consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. released their findings this morning, reporting tha ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Lady and the Vamp
via Flickr user brajeshwarSeptember's numbers on employment from the Bureau of Labor Statistics aren't due until Friday, but a private report says 1,638 Floridians were laid off last month.The consultants at Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. released their findings this morning, reporting tha ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Jon Stewart to Florida: "You're Lucky We Even Let You Vote at All"
Florida is shaped like a...Last night, Jon Stewart focused his beloved comic lens on the Florida GOP's recent decision to move its presidential primary date up from March to January. The Daily Show host gleefully ripped the state a new one for having the audacity to seek more power over the ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
Rick Scott Issues Press Release Explaining New Definition of 700,000-Job Campaign Promise
Gov. Rick Scott's office issued a news release late last week to explain the retraction of his campaign promise to create 700,000 jobs on top of the state's "normal growth" projection of 1 million jobs by 2017.It looks like he's sticking to his new story, in which he claims he never promised to c ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
With Prison Privatization Plan on Hold, GEO Group Website Still Vying for Contract
The private company still wants the prison contract.Poor GEO Group. The Boca Raton-based private prison operator, former known as Wackenhut Corrections, had planned to invest $3 million in its quest to win a contract to run most of the prisons in the southern part of Florida. But two weeks a ... More >>
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October 16, 2011
Florida Corrections Officer Gives Some Interwebs Insight About State Prisons
zazzle.comWe don't even know who this hat belongs to.Being a corrections officer is one of the strangest jobs imaginable -- you're stuck in a big concrete and iron box for eight-plus hours per day, surrounded by some of society's most loathed humans, who are likely armed with rusty shanks and ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
West Palm Beach Court of Appeal: Toy Guns Don't Constitute Armed Robbery
sandboxworld.comIf this were a bank, this would not be an armed robbery, according to Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal.According to a decision last week out of Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, an armed robbery isn't really an armed robbery if the "weapon" use ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Florida Unemployment Rate Finally Decreases Back to May Level
stuffunemployedpeoplelike.comFlorida's unemployment rate decreased .1 percent to 10.6 percent in the month of September after three months of no change, putting the state back to the same rate it was at in May.According to the numbers released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the n ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Florida Employers Registered 69 Mass Layoffs in September, the Fourth-Most Nationwide
hammerle.comAfter two straight months of having the second-most mass-layoff events in the country, Florida companies experienced 69 in September, dropping the Sunshine State to just the fourth-most among the 50 states.According to the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida accounted ... More >>
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November 1, 2011
Florida Medical Marijuana Referendum Petition a Bit Low on Signatures: 646,889 More Needed
sodahead.comIf you want to see a medical marijuana referendum on the 2012 ballot, you'll have to say a prayer that House Joint Resolution 353 passes through the Legislature -- it's currently in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee -- or you're going to have to be one of 646,889 more Floridians to si ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
GOP Intentionally Sabotaging Economy to Boot Obama? Only 39 Percent of Floridians Say No
wildmanhangout.comOld news: Floridians think Gov. Rick Scott sucks. New news: Nearly half of Florida thinks Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy to prevent the reelection of President Obama.It's not just those damned liberals either -- 24 percent of Republicans agree, according to ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Rick Santorum and Allen West Having a Picnic in a Lake Worth Park This Weekend
newamericatoday.comYou -- picnic.GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rick "I want to go to war with China" Santorum will be joining Reps. Allen West and Tom Rooney for a cute little picnic this weekend sponsored by the Republican Party of Palm Beach County.Santorum's appearance at the "GOP Family Pic ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Florida "Personhood" Referendum Petition Has Fewer Signatures Than Medical Marijuana
Despite the dismal number of signatures collected to put a medical marijuana referendum on Florida ballots next year, the chance that Floridians will be voting on a "personhood" amendment -- like the one that failed in Mississippi last night -- is even lower.The leader of the Florida movement ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Florida Bar's Guide to Being an Adult: "Why Can't I Drink at 18?"
Flickr user: andrew_mc_dAm I an adult now?For those darling kids who just turned 18 and have no idea how to operate themselves, the Florida Bar is here to help. The smarty-pants lawyers have released an exquisitely worded pamphlet to guide the state's "new adults." In a mere 30 pages, ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Florida Back to Second Place Nationwide for the Most Mass Layoffs
yankeesdaily.comAfter a pretty good September for not getting laid off in Florida -- only the fourth-most mass layoffs in the nation for that month -- the state is back to its usual position of second-most for October.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida accounted for 91 of the na ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
Cyber Monday Targeted by at Least One Legislator for Not Helping to Create Jobs
inquisitr.comApparently the only argument coming out in favor or against any bill this session in the Florida Legislature is related to whether it creates jobs.(See: dwarf tossing, ban on.)Today, when people head to the interwebs to buy things at a price that doesn't require setting up a tent out ... More >>
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November 29, 2011
Florida Qualifies for List of Best-Run States in America for Simply Being a State in America
sunshinestatesarah.comLuckily for Florida, a new list of the best-run states in the U.S. of A. included all 50 states or it may not have made the cut.Based on what 24/7 Wall Street calls "the 10 most important measurements of financial and government management," Florida ranked 40th.In fact, a lo ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Oversexed in South Florida: The Full Results of Our Sex Survey (NSFW)
Sex is so common in South Florida that it's even done at our pizzerias. For more photos, click here.If you've given a read to this week's cover story in New Times, you know we South Floridians like our kinks. OK, maybe you knew that already. But the results from our first sex survey give credence ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Sex in South Florida: Our Survey Finds That We Sure Like Our Kinks
Sex is so common in South Florida that it's even done at our pizzerias. For more photos, click here.If you've given a read to this week's cover story in New Times, you know we South Floridians like our kinks. OK, maybe you knew that already. But the results from our first sex survey give credence ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Mavericks High Charter Schools Not Accredited
maverickshigh.comMavericks High in HomesteadRecords show that the Mavericks in Education Florida charter schools, which have a high-profile lobbyist and cheerleader in Frank Biden, are not accredited high schools. This means their graduates may have trouble playing college sports or receiving fed ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Florida 407,655 People Short of Being More Populous Than New York
sondheimguide.comIn the first population estimates since 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau announced today that Florida gained 256,000 people between April 2010 and July 2011, the third-highest total behind Texas and California.In that same time, New York gained only 87,000 people, which means Flo ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Florida's Congressional Delegation Worth More Than $170 Million
The 27 members of Florida's Congressional delegation are collectively worth more than $170 million, according to recently released figures from the Center for Responsive Politics.Much of the delegation's collective $172,193,290 estimated net worth comes from Rep. Vern Buchanan, whose $136,152 ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
South Florida's Best Dive Bars
While eating at Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza, my second week in Florida, I met a yacht captain --a younger, thinner, clean-cut version of the John Goodman character in The Big Lebowski. We got to talking about dive bars. "I've got the perfect dive bar to take you to," he said. This being a Tuesday, ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Federal "Race to the Top" Funds Used to Build More Florida Charter Schools in Poor Areas
maverickshigh.comFederal funding will expand charters in poor neighborhoods.This week's cover story about Mavericks in Education Florida explores the pitfalls of a for-profit charter school company that promises to help at-risk kids. Florida has been especially friendly to charter schools, a ... More >>
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November 24, 2011
"Ice" Skating, Fort Lauderdale-Style
maverickshigh.comFederal funding will expand charters in poor neighborhoods.This week's cover story about Mavericks in Education Florida explores the pitfalls of a for-profit charter school company that promises to help at-risk kids. Florida has been especially friendly to charter schools, a ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Broward's Foodie Heaven Isn't Las Olas Pretty but a Slew of Strip Malls on University Drive
Marumi's tofu steak: You won't find this east of I-95.When one of my foodie friends arrives for a first visit to SoFla, I deceive them immediately. In my old Taurus wagon, I drive them north on I-95. We pass marinas and canals ("Venice of the Americas," I tell them) and onto Andrews Avenue and ov ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Mavericks High Charter Schools Make News in New Orleans
maverickshigh.comMavericks makes news in the Big Easy.Florida has a habit of exporting its public policies to other states, where they spread like cold sores on a drunken Himmarshee night. Grading schools and teachers based on test scores, expanding vouchers and charters schools -- the nation has ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Fort Lauderdale Commission Signs Off on Laundry List of Complaints About Casino Plans
justmeans.comFort Lauderdale commissioners voted unanimously to complain send off a resolution saying the city's not exactly a fan of the "destination resort casino" bill in the state Legislature -- which is sponsored in the Senate by Fort Lauderdale Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff.Aside from that little ri ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Florida Seafood Is Sold at Steak-House Prices. Why?
Since I arrived in August, I've been struck by how much seafood on menus is from up north, whether it's swordfish, oysters, or lobster. I've also been curious at the pricing of local that's often higher than what's caught in the Caribbean and New England. What's the story? A basket of snapper, just ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Binge Drinking in Florida? Feds Say Not Here
The Onion has penned many parodies of this state, including Florida Legalizes Taking Guns to Work; Florida State University to Phase Out Academic Operations by 2010; and 'Ravaged' Named Florida's Official State Adjective. Though it reads like it, this stat is no parody. According to the Centers f ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Florida Is Number Three in the Nation! (In Registered Sex Offenders)
For what it's worth, there are only two states in the nation with more registered sex offenders than Florida.Florida's 57,896 sex criminals puts the Sunshine State behind only California (106,216) and Texas (68,529), and even though Florida's population is about 400,000 less than New York's, the ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Here's Florida's Blacklist of Everyone Excluded for Life From Pari-Mutuel Casinos
Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel WageringBusted! Sandro Alonzo (right) in happier times.If Uncle Earl has been coming around and causing trouble recently, it might be because he was kicked out of the casino for card counting, stealing, or other stupid behavior. Wouldn't it be great to see a list o ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Doug Darling, Rick Scott Job-Creation Adviser, Quits
Hired to help the unemployed, now keeping them companyThe man who oversees much of the state's job-creation effort submitted his resignation late last week for "personal reasons."It's not clear why Department of Economic Opportunity Director Doug Darling, who was hired for the gig last July, is ... More >>
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January 31, 2012
Florida Worst State in Study of Long-Term Unemployment
This is what a think tank is, right?More than 53 percent of Florida's unemployed residents went six months or more without work last year -- the highest rate in the country, according to a study from the Hamilton Project, run by the Brookings Institute, a D.C. think tank.To compare, the average u ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Free Yogurt For National Yogurt Day
YogurtlandIt's national yogurt day! Celebrate with free fro-yo!It's National Yogurt day today (and you thought it was hangover-from-Super-Bowl day, didn't you)! Every time we think yogurt has jumped the shark, it makes a comeback. There are still a million frozen yogurt shops, but now ... More >>
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