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Outside money fills airwaves in tight Senate races
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Campaign cash from outside political groups is flooding into conservative states with close Senate races like Indiana, Arizona and Montana, where residents are more accustomed to local news promos between football games than...Tags: Voting, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Richard Mourdock
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Railroad coming to U.S. 27? A new vision emerges
A scenic highway on the edge of the Everglades, U.S. 27 seems far away from the hustle and bustle of interstate commerce. It has no strip malls, few stoplights and gas stations. Vast open land — sugar cane fields, farms, sawgrass — surrounds...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Orlando, Miami-Dade County, Everglades, Pembroke Pines
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Railroad trespassers in Palm Beach County get an expensive message
Thursday was no day to mess around at railroad crossings in Boynton Beach. Motorists who stopped their cars on the railroad tracks got hit with a $166 ticket. Those who decided to stroll across the tracks where there were no crosswalks were headed to...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Boynton Beach, Services and Shopping, Judges, Transportation Accidents
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People on the move
Education Whitney Stewart was named as an instructor of The Regional Physiotherapy Centre's newly established School of Massage Therapy in West Palm Beach. Stewart is a physical therapist assistant and a licensed massage therapist. She joined the Centre...Tags: Nature Conservancy, Nova Southeastern University, Housing Industry, Services and Shopping, Litigation
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Driver killed when train hits van on tracks in Boynton
— Allen J. Vachon, 57, of Hypoluxo, was killed late Saturday when a southbound Florida East Coast Railway train struck his van on the tracks at Miner Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Vachon's vehicle became disabled on the track,...Tags: Boynton Beach, Florida Highway Patrol
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It's full steam ahead on plans for new train service
A new, privately financed passenger rail service between Miami and Orlando is still on track, although the start up may be delayed about a year until the end of 2015. The Federal Railroad Administration in January determined that adding trains on the...Tags: Coral Gables, Railway Transportation, West Palm Beach, Transportation, Travel
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Hallandale Beach Boulevard narrowed to provide extra 'green time'
Q: Can you please tell us why eastbound Hallandale Beach Boulevard goes down to two lanes at Southwest Second Avenue and then opens up no more than 100 feet later to three lanes right before Southeast Third Avenue? This does not make any sense, and it...Tags: Boynton Beach, Hallandale Beach, Pompano Beach, Traffic, Gulfstream Park
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Kingsley Guy: South Florida economic future looks good
As Mark Twain noted, history doesn't repeat itself, but "sometimes it rhymes," and South Florida may be in for one of those rhyming moments as it emerges from the economic doldrums of the past half decade. Turn the clock back a hundred years: Henry...Tags: Natural Disasters, Employment, Railway Transportation, Railway Industry, Realty
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Will Fort Lauderdale's Wave streetcar be a wipeout?
As a New Yorker who grew up riding subways, I'm all for mass transit. But the proposed Wave electric streetcar in downtown Fort Lauderdale sounds more like a massive boondoggle: A light rail loop that will go virtually nowhere and carry almost nobody,...
Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), West Palm Beach, Public Transportation, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando
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Mayo: Will The Wave streetcar line be a wipeout?
Sun Sentinel ColumnistHey, good news. The price of a looming boondogle seems to have gone down. The Wave, a downtown Fort Lauderdale electric streetcar/light rail loop, was pegged to cost $150 million when I wrote a column lampooning it in 2008. Now, almost five years later,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Fort Lauderdale, Public Transportation, Broward County, Philosophy
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Mix history, art in Palm Beach at the Flagler Museum
If ever a room was aptly named, it's the Grand Hall of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. The 5,000 square-foot reception hall is adorned with almost every conceivable trapping of Gilded Age splendor: A bust of Caesar Augustus atop a...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Museums, Key West, Arts and Culture
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Move Over Law confuses drivers
Q: I need a clarification of Florida's Move Over Law. One can interpret the law that you have to reduce your speed 20 mph under the speed limit or move over a lane only when police or emergency workers are involved rendering assistance. Does this also...Tags: Florida Department of Transportation, Boynton Beach, Justice System, Judges, Broward County Sheriff's Office
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