Articles in Category: 'U.S. Sugar'

By: Lane Wright | Posted: December 28, 2010 4:00 AM
 
If you can't go to Tallahassee for the inauguration, Gov.-elect Rick Scott wants to bring it to you. Monday he hit three cities in the central and west coast portions of the state to thank his supporters and continue gathering ideas on growing Florida business and improving government.
 
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By: Nancy Smith | Posted: August 13, 2010 4:05 AM
 
More land to no purpose, more government waste in Florida. Thursday’s South Florida Water Management District vote was all that and so much more.
 
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By: Gray Rohrer | Posted: August 23, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Republican voters in Florida's House District 73 are likely to be served by youth and political inexperience when they go to the polls Tuesday.

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

A tea party group downgraded Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum on its conservative report card for failing to sign a pledge opposing the "bailout" of U.S. Sugar Corp.
 
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Florida Minute with Carl Domino
POSTED: August 13, 2010
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: July 24, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Tying Gov. Charlie Crist to Democrats on Capitol Hill, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio said Florida and America are "paying the price for a lack of leadership."

 
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Florida Minute with Joe Budd
POSTED: July 15, 2010
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: July 14, 2010 3:35 PM
 
Calling the purchase of U.S. Sugar Corporation's land an overpriced corporate bailout, tea partiers Wednesday urged the South Florida Water Management District to scrap the deal.
 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: July 14, 2010 4:05 AM
 

Tea partiers and a Republican political action committee say they will descend on South Florida Water Management District headquarters today to protest the agency's purchase of U.S. Sugar property for Everglades restoration.

 
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By: Lane Wright | Posted: April 2, 2010 12:03 AM
A spokeswoman for giant U.S. Sugar said Thursday the $536 million deal between her company and Gov. Charlie Crist to sell the state 73,000 acres of mostly-citrus land in the Everglades is far from dead.

U.S. Sugar spokesperson Judy Sanchez wasn't fazed by the fact that a federal judge Wednesday overturned Crist's decision to put the massive A-1 reservoir project on hold while the state and U.S. Sugar worked on the land purchase.

"This does not preclude the state from moving forward with the U.S. Sugar purchase," Sanchez said.
 
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By: Guest Columnist | Posted: March 9, 2010 2:43 PM
 

The South Florida Water Management District faces a defining vote at its meeting this week, one that could bring the agency to the fiscal brink and force an increase in property taxes for homeowners in 16 South Florida counties.

 
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By: Kenric Ward | Posted: March 22, 2010 12:02 AM
 

The decades-long drive to save the Everglades isn't purely an environmental exercise. Skeptics say it's really about the money.
 
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