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On every front, it seems, our well being is under attack: jobs lost, schools suffering, healthcare costs through the roof, pensions dwindling, housing/insurance costs outrageous, wetlands and wild lands disappearing - Florida is being paved over, and now the big boys want to sell our water. Big business runs the whole show. Politics is all big money...
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10/26-24/03
Miami FTAA protest plan wins initial approval--
Miami commissioners support limiting protests at
upcoming trade summit
MIAMI
-- Imagine the Goombay Festival without stilt walkers. The King Mango Strut
Parade without floats.
Miami's bid for trade headquarters puts image
on the line
For decades, Miami has touted itself
as the capital of Latin America. Now city leaders finally see a chance to
make the title official - or, they fear, officially misplaced.
Options eyed for high insurance costs
Maine, California provide models for
universal coverage
Sandy Thompson, owner of Artistic Flowers, has more on her mind than selling
roses. Costs of HMO coverage for herself and her 13 employees increased 30
to 50 percent this year, depending on the worker's age and gender.
Court upholds law that makes firing state workers easier--
State salaries, job statistics looking better
It's always risky to start drawing conclusions from statistics. Based solely
on the numbers, after all, more people die in hospitals than in movie
theaters. So statistically speaking, this would seem to suggest that if you
start having chest pains, you ought to be rushed to the nearest cinema.
Paper company selling Panhandle land for development (International Paper Co)
Florida's $369-million secret?
Critics say Scripps Research Institute will have wide discretion in what it
reveals as it spends taxpayers' money.
Florida finds cash for Scripps
TALLAHASSEE - Florida lawmakers late Thursday voted to spend $369-million of
taxpayer money to lure the world's largest private research center to open a
branch in Palm Beach County.
**Scripps
Research Institute Q&A---
**Tough
questions remain about the Scripps Research Institute's vision for Palm
Beach County
In the afterglow of a
whirlwind courtship that included the promise of more than $500 million from
Florida taxpayers, officials of The Scripps Research Institute found a field
of dreams in a remote orange grove in north-central Palm Beach County.
Session ends without fund Bush wanted for
economic development
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