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The Drowning Pool
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." Grover Norquist Wayne Garcia writes about how Republicans will rather let education, ...
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Study Finds Loud Golf Clubs Can Damage Hearing
Of all the mind numbing, ear drum bending, noise pollution that bombards us, who would have thought that the impact of a flattened composite on a one and half ounce sphere could hurt your hearing? A British ...
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Budget deficit could grow $700 million by June 30
Florida is even deeper in the red than expected and the state deficit could grow by another $700 million by the end of this budget year, lawmakers learned Monday as they began their special session to balance ...
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Police ask for help finding Riviera Beach robbers
Police are asking for the public's help to find two robbers who shot a convenience store clerk in the hand Saturday night.
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House begins stemming $2.3B budget shortage
Renewing your driver's license might be a little less convenient when the Legislature finishes adjusting Florida's already tightened state budget to head off a $2.3 billion revenue shortage.
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Officials crunch numbers
Lawmakers will have to make deeper spending cuts than anticipated because December tax collections fell $100 million below forecast, Senate President Jeff Atwater said as the Legislature convened Monday in ...
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NewNo early progress on state budget talks
Florida lawmakers opened a special session today with no clear agreement on how to fill a $2.3 billion budget shortfall.
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Health care funding at risk
Health care officials are bracing for another battle with state lawmakers looking to balance a $2.3 billion deficit in a January special session.
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Palm Beach County metro report
A bomb scare shut down the ground floor of the Palm Beach County Courthouse and closed several surrounding streets for more than two hours Friday evening, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
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North County Regional Library will stay open until April
The closing of the North County Regional Library on PGA Boulevard scheduled for later this month has been delayed to April.
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Just Chic, Panache Palm Beach embrace accessories-only concept
Colorful, mostly embellished and patterned things, fill Jelenka Strazicic's her new shop, Just Chic, in Via Flora.
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Special Session On Deficit Set For Monday
Senate president Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, and House speaker Ray Sansom, R-Destin, say lawmakers will begin a special session on Monday to work on Florida's $2.3 billion budget deficit.
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NY Post: Madoff gets taste of own medicine when Palm Beach yard art swiped
The New York Post taunted Palm Beacher Bernard Madoff with this report Sunday: "How does it feel, Bernie? Swindler extraordinaire Bernard Madoff got a taste of his own medicine last weekend when a burglar stole ...
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Passionate 'Bird Man' Kenny Brown ready to rescue
Kenny Brown handles an injured pelican that flew into a parking lot. He takes injured birds to Folke Peterson Wildlife Center in Wellington for rehabilitation and eventual release, when possible.
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There's No Business like Shoe Business
With the Madoff affair in full swing, there's been a lot of lip about some very fashionable Palm Beachers losing their shirts recently, so let's change the subject to another wearable, one with sole, or soles, ...
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Palm Beach consignment shops see increase in business
At least the Bernard Madoff scandal in Palm Beach has been good for some store owners.
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Transworld Business Brokers merging with Apex Business Brokers
One of the state's largest business brokers is merging with a rival firm. Fort Lauderdale-based Transworld Business Brokers sees the deal with North Palm Beach's Apex Business Brokers as a way to solidify its ...
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Legislators to tackle deficit in special session
Florida's legislative leaders announced Monday that they will convene an extraordinary lawmaking session Jan.
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Suspect in double slaying not represented, mother says
Court records show Charles Moss is now on his fourth attorney. His mother, Kimberly Moss, says he has never met or spoken with any of them.
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Madoff scandal sparksanti-Semitic Web postings
The Bernard Madoff investment scandal has touched off a tide of anti-Semitic screeds on Web sites, blogs and newspaper message boards around the country, including Palm Beach County.
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