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Will FPL get everything it wants in rate hike?
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsIs FPL???s rate hike request a done deal? Officially, no. The Florida Public Service Commission won???t make a final ruling on FPL???s bid for a $1.25 billion increase in base rates for 2010 and 2011 until the fall. But it???s......Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Bill McCollum, New York, Jupiter, Florida
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Cupcake champ Wilder goes beyond sweet
Florida Hospital's Gourmet Soiree: Dining to a Healthy 100! gets cooking at 5:30 p.m. May 19 at Orlando's Rosen Shingle Creek resort. Chef Robert Irvine, host of Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible," will be on hand, challenging guests who will don...
Tags: Cooking Channel (tv network), Lake Eola Park, Television Industry, Kevin Costner, Hospitals and Clinics
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Blood center's reform: Not complete yet
Three years ago, we wrote a lot about problems at Florida's Blood Centers. Salaries were sky-high — with the CEO's compensation package topping $600,000. There were conflicts of interest among the board members. And spending was so out of control,...
Tags: Toni Jennings, Hospitals and Clinics, Charity
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25 most powerful people in Central Florida
They control some of the largest work forces in town. They can affect your health care, your daily commute, even your kids' education. Some of them have direct lines to the White House. They are Central Florida's power players. And you deserve to...
Tags: Buddy Dyer, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Politics, Healthcare Provider, University of Central Florida
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Florida schools need communities to rally around them
Last fall, I visited Fern Creek Elementary — a school full of poor and even homeless children that is thriving thanks to local businesses and volunteers.
At Fern Creek, parents help out, artists visit, churches contribute and businesses send both...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Separation of Church and State, Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Students
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Kudos to lawyers holding a holiday party for foster children
Imagine playing Santa to 300 little ones — each of them hurting in some way. There is the 15-year-old basketball standout whose mother and sister moved to Louisiana without telling her, abandoning her. There is the infant born eight weeks ago...
Tags: OxyContin (drug), Holidays, Family, Abusive Behavior, Lawyers
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Readers write on doctor prices, drones
Time again to empty out my mail bag ... Dear Beth, Appreciated your article on the hospitals purchasing the practices of doctors. It is a deserved knee-jerk reaction on the part of both hospitals and doctors to the prospects of Obamacare. We will now...Tags: Dentistry and Dental Health, Seminole County, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Hospitals and Clinics, Casselberry
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Patients lose when hospitals take over doctors
When a big hospital chain buys an independent doctor's office, we often hear the move will "enhance care," "integrate care" or "improve health-care efficiency." Spare us the euphemisms. Patients are the losers in these deals. We pay higher costs. We...
Tags: Orlando Health, Cigna Corporation, Hospitals and Clinics, MRI (imaging), General Practitioners
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Tavares' economic development plan is working
Second of two parts. Tavares has a defined economic-development formula, which is more than can be said for the rest of Lake County. For "America's Seaplane City" and its residents, the strategy is starting to pay off. Friday's column took a look at a...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Business
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Otis Smith preaches family first with Magic
Otis Smith stood outside the Magic's lockeroom 90 minutes before Sunday's game, wearing a motorcycle-themed T-shirt, ballcap and jeans.
A fan approached him, shook his hand and remarked that it looked like he had just hopped off his Harley. A suit and...Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, Health Treatments, Cancer, Hospitals and Clinics, Basketball
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Magic founder Pat Williams is battling cancer like an All-Star
All of this exposure and economic impact.
All of the hype and the hoopla.
All of the celebrities and festivities.
All because this man believed.
All because Pat Williams believed in Orlando.
Believed in Magic.
And now, as Orlando gets ready to...Tags: Football, Science and Technology, Blood Cells, Health Treatments, Cancer
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Businesses key to making SunRail work
Local businesses deserve a big share of the credit for keeping SunRail alive and pushing for Gov. Rick Scott's approval of the commuter train.
Now, those businesses will be even more critical in determining whether the train is the boon for the local...Tags: Longwood (Seminole, Florida), Commuting, Politics, Orlando Science Center, Hospitals and Clinics
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