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March 2008
- Bernanke: Homeowners Need More Help
  
  Wall Street Journal | Mar 4, 08 9:29 AM CST
  
  (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 Herald | Mar 3, 08 1:30 PM CST
  
  (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
  
  Miami Herald | Mar 1, 08 10:31 AM CST
  
  (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
  
  Miami Herald | Feb 27, 08 5:15 AM CST
  
  (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.
  
  St. Petersburg Times | Feb 26, 08 4:40 PM CST
  
  (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.
  
  Miami Herald | Feb 26, 08 2:30 PM CST
  
  (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
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Nov 20, 07
  
  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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