Articles in Category: 'Port St. Lucie'

PSC Begins Nuclear Plant Recovery Cost Hearings

By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: August 11, 2011 3:55 AM

TAGS: Florida Power & Light, Florida Public Service Commission, Levy County, Miami, News, nuclear power, Office of Public Counsel, Port St. Lucie, Progress Energy, Turkey Point, Utilities, Government

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Foreclosures Down in Florida, But Cases Linger in Courts

By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: December 17, 2010 4:05 AM

Foreclosure filings in Florida fell 42 percent in November from the previous month, with one in every 267 housing units receiving a filing last month, according to a report released Thursday by Realty Trac, a California-based company that tracks foreclosed properties.

TAGS: 11th Judicial Circuit, Cape Coral, foreclosure mills, Foreclosures, Fort Myers, Judge Jennifer D. Bailey, News, Port St. Lucie, Realty Trac, robo-signing, Government

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Marco Rubio Steers Careful Course Between Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint

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

With a 20-point lead in the latest Sunshine State News Poll, Republican Marco Rubio isn't burning any bridges on his way to the U.S. Senate.

TAGS: Barack Obama, Charlie Crist, Jim DeMint, Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, News, Port St. Lucie, RedState.com, Senate Republicans, Politics

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New PB County Site to Be Proposed for Inland Port

By: Alex Tiegen | Posted: May 19, 2010 3:17 PM

A long-favored plan for creating an inland distribution center to maximize cargo taken in by the maritime industry in South Florida is dead, and the sugar company that proposed it is recommending that the Port of Palm Beach start over in its search for a location.

Florida Crystals’ plan to host the 318-acre South Florida Regional Intermodal Logistics Center in western Palm Beach County has been taken off the table, and the company is offering instead an 850-acre plot elsewhere in the poverty-stricken rural area.

TAGS: Business, Department of Community Affairs, Florida Crystals, inland port, International Trade, News, Palm Beach County, Port of Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie

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