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F'd up Florida

Should these people really be allowed to vote for our president?

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  • March 2008
    • Bernanke: Homeowners Need More Help

      Bernanke: Homeowners Need More Help

      (Newser) - Ben Bernanke says homeowners need more help, and that help might include writing down the principal on some problem loans, reports the Wall Street Journal .  "Efforts by both government and private-sector entities to reduce unnecessary foreclosures are helping, but more can, and should, be done,"  the Fed chairman said today in a speech to a community banking conference in Florida. More »

    • Miami Needs to Study Spanish

      Miami Needs to Study Spanish

      (Newser) - Miami's role as an international city—the "financial hub of Latin America," as one businessman calls it—is threatened by its residents' declining Spanish skills, the Miami Herald reports. Many descendants of the Cuban entrepreneurs and businessmen who flooded South Florida in the '60s and '70s speak only "kitchen Spanish"—good enough to talk to grandma, but not for business transactions. More »

    • Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

      Engineer's Goof Turned Out Florida Lights

      (Newser) - One engineer's blunder shut off the power in Florida Tuesday, the Miami Herald reports. Florida Light & Power says a field engineer diagnosing a faulty switch disabled two levels of safety backups—against company policy—as he worked. In a bit of extremely unfortunate timing, a fault then occurred that knocked out dozens of transmission lines and substations, including one that served the Turkey Point nuclear reactor. More »

  • February 2008
    • Power Back On in South Florida

      Power Back On in South Florida

      (Newser) - Floridians saw the light again last evening when power was restored after equipment failure at a single Miami substation caused a blackout which dominoed across South Florida, leaving millions without power for several hours. Most homes were back on the grid before nightfall, but why a single substation's failure could have such a devastating impact remains a mystery, reports the Miami Herald . More »

    • Power Returns to Millions in Fla.

      Power Returns to Millions in Fla.

      (Newser) - A blackout that cut off millions of Florida residents today is ending, authorities say, but they disagree on the cause. Florida Power & Light blames a substation west of Miami for sparking the outage, and a state emergency office says a station south of Miami suffered a mechanical failure that triggered two nuclear plants to go offline, the St. Petersburg Times reports. More »

    • Huge Power Outage Strikes Fla.

      Huge Power Outage Strikes Fla.

      (Newser) - Power outages concentrated in the Miami area struck across Florida just after 1 this afternoon, the Miami Herald reports. The lights started coming back on within 2 hours, but the cause of the blackout still wasn't known. Both nuclear reactors at the Turkey Point plant south of Miami automatically shut down, blacking out hundreds of thousands of customers, "but we do not know why at this point," said an NRC spokesman. More »

  • November 2007
    • Florida 'shoot first' law helps gangsters - Telegraph

      Two years ago, Florida became the first state to pass the "Stand Your Ground" or “Shoot First” law that gave people the right to open fire if they felt threatened on the street or in their car. The legislation was championed by the powerful National Rifle Association.

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University of Miami Police Officer Eddie Somarriba directs traffic in Coral Gables, Fla., Tuesaday, Feb. 26, 2008 after sporadic power outages affected more than 3 million people across the southern end...   (Associated Press)
Traffic heads west out of Miami after problems with the electricity grid caused the Turkey Point nuclear plant to automatically shut down, intermittently cutting power to up to 3 million people from Daytona...   (Associated Press)
Students sit in class as they learn how to speak English at the English Center June 16, 2006 in Miami, Florida. Many find that the need to improve Spanish skills in the second generation gets lost in...   (Getty Images)
Rats are causing health concerns at Orlando International Airport.   (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A police officer trains with a taser gun in this undated file photo.   (Getty Images)
A Florida teenager, at right, is ambushed by her peers.   (YouTube)
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