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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 23, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Shades of the cinematic thriller "Unstoppable," critics are determined to derail President Barack Obama's vision for high-speed rail in Florida.
 
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By: David Beasley | Posted: November 22, 2010 4:05 AM
 

There has been a lot of talk of late about sinkholes and their impact on Florida’s property insurance industry.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 19, 2010 4:05 AM
 

A consortium of European companies is vying to finance and operate Florida's high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 18, 2010 4:05 AM


Florida's best Medicaid option may be to get out of the program altogether.

 
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By: Nancy Smith | Posted: November 16, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Looking to help Florida “slingshot out of this recession,” State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan announced Monday the project winners from all 11 of Florida’s public universities. Universities competed for a share of $10 million in the final phase of the New Florida Initiative.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 16, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Move over, Marco Rubio. There's another youthful, telegenic Cuban making the rounds in Miami's power circles. Just one difference: This lawyer is a Democrat.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 15, 2010 8:30 AM
 

Becalmed by a string of relatively uneventful hurricane seasons, a growing army of claims adjusters has found lucrative work ... in sinkholes.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 11, 2010 4:05 PM
Floridians are willing to pay slightly more for utilities if more of that power comes from renewable sources, a TaxWatch-sponsored poll says.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: November 11, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Hard-luck farmers, ranchers and citrus growers stand to benefit from the Legislature's impending override of Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of House Bill 981.
 
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By: Keith Laing The News Service of Florida | Posted: October 26, 2010 4:05 AM
On Monday, Florida pulled within $300 million of reaching the $2.6 billion necessary for a long-proposed bullet train connecting Tampa and Orlando to leave the station -- a figure opponents once successfully used to derail the train as too expensive, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 16, 2010 4:05 AM
Virgin Galactic officials are, officially, mum about the prospects of bringing the company's space operations to Florida, but owner Richard Branson wasn't so circumspect during a swing through Orlando this week.
 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 13, 2010 10:43 AM

The Panama Canal is expected to be widened in 2014, and when it is, Florida needs to be ready.

 
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By: John Kennedy News Service of Florida | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM

With Florida’s already troubled housing market roiled by a widening moratorium on foreclosures, Attorney General Bill McCollum called Tuesday for a meeting with major lenders, saying he fears a shockwave that could rock the state’s fragile economy.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 13, 2010 4:05 AM
 
In "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," perennially jobless cousin Eddie shows up at Clark Griswold's home in an RV, ready for a free holiday feast and lots of presents.
 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 12, 2010 4:05 AM

The well has been dead for nearly a month, the leak capped for three months, but in a progress report Monday at the state Chamber of Commerce's Future of Florida Forum in Orlando, a BP executive said that recovery efforts in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are likely to continue long after the last damage claims are paid out.

 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: October 12, 2010 4:05 AM

There's a growing realization on the Space Coast that the future of the area's economy and the future of space exploration are going to rely heavily on commercial space companies.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 12, 2010 4:05 AM
 
On at least six occasions, state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink approved felons' applications to sell insurance in Florida.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 11, 2010 4:05 AM
 
The Democratic Party fashions itself as a party of the people. In Florida, those people include plenty of big-time trial lawyers.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 7, 2010 2:25 PM
 
Buttressing Floridians' complaints about Washington's response to the giant BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal commission blasted the Obama administration for initially underestimating the scope of the disaster, and then overreacting politically.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 4, 2010 4:05 AM
 
When Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink went to New York City last week to speak on managing state pension-fund investments, she didn't include Stuyvesant Town in any PowerPoint presentation.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: October 1, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Led by Sen. George LeMieux, R-Fla., Republicans shut down a Democratic effort to extend unemployment benefits in states with the highest jobless rates.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 28, 2010 4:05 AM
 
The demise of a Bradenton Bank carries the fingerprints of state Sen. Mike Bennett.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 27, 2010 4:05 AM
 
A federal plan to tighten ozone rules would more than quadruple the number of Florida counties in violation of air-quality standards and smother 47,769 jobs statewide, industry reports say.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 25, 2010 4:05 AM
 

With Congress abandoning plans to vote on taxes before Election Day, the clock is ticking toward Dec. 31 and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 22, 2010 4:05 AM
 

While Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill tried pandering to gays and lesbians and illegal aliens with controversial add-ons to the defense appropriations bill Tuesday, House Republicans were busy planning for Congress to get serious about the people's business.

 
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By: Kevin Derby | Posted: September 22, 2010 4:05 AM
 
Looking to revitalize an industry badly damaged by the economic downturn, the Florida Home Builders Association (FHBA) launched a new website Tuesday to serve as a storehouse of information for contractors and construction workers in the Sunshine State.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 20, 2010 4:05 AM
 
An Orlando nonprofit is working to clean up the planet, one soap bar at a time.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 17, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Despite dismissive comments from state and national Democrats, Florida's lawsuit against the federal government's health-care law is getting traction in court.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 16, 2010 4:05 AM
 
If Congress fails to extend Bush-era tax cuts this year, Florida retirees will suffer a blow to their wallets -- adding to their health-care pains, a Heritage Foundation report says.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: September 8, 2010 1:00 PM
 
A report found a string of failures by "multiple companies" led to the deadly Deepwater Horizon disaster, and BP is taking the blame for the blowout that spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
 
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