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U.S. Census Bureau

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Florida Chock-Full o' Foreigners: Six Fun Facts From New Census Data

    Sound the alarm! Slide down the polls! Gold Five to Red Leader, we have inbound data sets!That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the U.S. Census Bureau released a new batch of data yesterday, and the Pulp has done some spreadsheet surfing to bring you the hottest numbers from the report. You'll laugh, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Florida 407,655 People Short of Being More Populous Than New York

    sondheimguide.com​In 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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Allen West Thinks a Lobbying Organization Is a Government Agency

    ​Rep. Allen West is looking for cuts to make in the federal government to spare the defense budget, so he thinks there's no reason for the Department of Commerce to exist since there's a lobbying group with a similar name.West seems a bit confused on this one.He says we need to take a hard look at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2011

    Link Roundup: Florida's Hunger Stats, an App for Beer Geeks, and Sietsema's Not @RuthBourdain

    ​​We've scoured the internets to find today's selection of food news from the Sunday papers and elsewhere. According to Good Magazine, Florida is one of three states with the fewest number of families to report struggling to feed themselves and their kin. At percentages falli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Florida Ranks Very High in Economic Study; Unfortunately, It's About People Being Poor

    ​A study from the Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy says Florida ranks third, fourth, and fifth out of the 50 states in three different economic indicators.Unfortunately, those indicators are the highest rates of residents without health insurance, the largest percentage of children un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Census: Young People Still F*cked by Recession

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ret0dd/Down and out on mom and dad's sofa.​Now for some bad news. U.S. Census Bureau figures released today show that young people are getting especially pummeled by a recession that supposedly ended two years ago. According to the Associated Press, 20- and 30-someth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Broward Is Turning Into Miami-Dade, Says the Census. Here's How to Embrace It

    Wikimedia Commons​Nobody takes more sectarian pride in county lines than Florida -- where you would normally find city rivalries and geographic landmarks, we have a patchwork quilt of little sovereign empires dividing up the swamps. Heck, we even named our paper after some counties.So when the lat ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 10, 2010

    An Indie Chef Runs a Rogue Restaurant Out of Her One-Bedroom Apartment

    Wikimedia Commons​Nobody takes more sectarian pride in county lines than Florida -- where you would normally find city rivalries and geographic landmarks, we have a patchwork quilt of little sovereign empires dividing up the swamps. Heck, we even named our paper after some counties.So when the lat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Underground Restaurants in Fort Lauderdale, Part 1

    shutterstock.com​Rogue restaurants. They've been delved into by Bon Apetit, Food and Wine, and Tony Bourdain. But how many of these secret establishments are really operating in South Florida? Located in apartments, down hidden alley ways, and in rental kitchens, these places sell their unlicensed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Local Census Worker Calls Program "A Huge Waste"

    flickr.com​Martin Menter, a retired salesman, started working for the U.S. Census Bureau in late April. About 50 percent of Broward residents did not return their census form earlier this year. Menter is one of the people paid to knock on doors, trying to gather all the information the government ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    FPL Plant Deals Dirty on the Race Question, Activists Say

    FPL's Riviera plant: Looks great from a distance​Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with "one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida," according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The Coalition, a ... More >>

  • News

    January 7, 2010

    Chinese Drywall Has Left Tens of Thousands of Homeowners Out of Options

    FPL's Riviera plant: Looks great from a distance​Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with "one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida," according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The Coalition, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2007

    DeGroot: The Wasteland Cometh

    FPL's Riviera plant: Looks great from a distance​Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with "one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida," according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The Coalition, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2006

    How Much Do You Make?

    FPL's Riviera plant: Looks great from a distance​Environmental activists and some Riviera Beach residents are fed up with living with "one of the dirtiest power plants in the entire state of Florida," according to a news release from the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition. The Coalition, a ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 23, 2006

    Twice in a Blue Moon

    Chefs Skorish and Statham are into something new

  • News

    March 17, 2005

    Urban Removal

    It's the same old story, critics say: displacing blacks to make way for whites

  • Culture

    September 30, 2004

    Just Like the Rest of Us

    "Hispanic heritage" is hard to find at ArtServe and Gallery Six By Michael Mills

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