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More Hallandale weirdness: 2 votes for 3 seats
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsHallandale Beach is my favorite little weird city. It's got Sage bagels, two casinos, 37,000 residents and a city commission that needs a therapist on speed dial. And now it has a bizarre upcoming election to boot. I wrote today's......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Hallandale Beach, Politics, North Miami, Voting
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Lunch Links 7.18
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogsNot much happening in the world of the Sun Belt today, but two teams did get big additions ??? and one is going to be playing quality minutes this season. Gautier hype in the Bayou: Title=Gautier-leads-Cajuns-to-unprecedented-success">HoumaToday.com...Tags: South Alabama Jaguars, Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
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FIU's Cristobal extended; ULL offers SoFla DB; Dyer denies transfer
FAU Sports | Sun Sentinel blogs???FIU made what the Miami Herald's David Neal had yesterday: Panthers head coach Mario Cristobal received a contract extension that will push his current deal through the year 2017. I feel strongly that this contract extension will never come into......Tags: Florida Atlantic Owls, Arkansas State Red Wolves, American Hockey League, Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns, Shootings
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Radio, radio: Mayo, Wallman on The Florida Roundup today
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsI have the pleasure to fill in as host of The Florida Roundup at noon today on WLRN (91.3 FM), the local NPR affiliate. If you've never heard the show, it's one of the best hours of airtime for local......Tags: NPR, Radio, FPL Group, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Primaries
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Ex-state regulator: FPL doesn't need rate increase
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsAfter my recent column and blog post on Florida Power & Light's proposed $690 million annual rate increase for electric bills, I heard from Nathan Skop, former Florida Public Service Commission member. His verdict: FPL doesn't need a rate increase.......Tags: Civil and Public Service, Government, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), FPL Group, Lobbying
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Race is the uneasy issue in Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsAs I wrote in my Sunday print column, the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case has the potential to expose racial fault lines in this country like nothing since the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial. The latest evidence of that: the flap......Tags: George Zimmerman, O.J. Simpson, Lifestyle and Leisure, Career and Workplace, Trayvon Martin
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Extremism has no race
Leonard Pitts"I know this sounds racist, but ..." So goes the subject line on last week's email from Bill, a reader. It seems Bill has an idea. Given that "all of the radical terrorists have been Muslims," he wants the government to mount a program to surveil every...Tags: Racism, Religion and Belief, Islam, Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Memo to David Beckham: Orlando a better spot for MLS franchise than Miami
In his prime, nobody could curve a soccer ball around a wall of defenders and into the goal like David Beckham. Thus the famous mantra: "Bend it like Beckham." Unfortunately for Central Florida's ongoing effort to acquire a Major League Soccer...
Tags: Soccer, Teresa Jacobs, LeBron James, Sun Life Stadium, Sports
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The curse of Redskins
Leonard PittsSee if this makes sense to you: For years, I've argued with certain African-American people about their insistence upon using the so-called N-word which, to my ears, is, inalterably, a statement of self-loathing. They say I don't understand. They say the...Tags: Racism, Washington Redskins, Roger Goodell, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, National Football League
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Evil can't destroy us without our help
I have not seen the video. Not saying I won't, but for now, I've chosen not to. To rush online and seek out cell phone footage of two fanatics with machetes who butchered a British soldier in London on Wednesday, to watch them standing there, hands...
Tags: Cell Phones, Anthrax, Terrorism, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Can insurance upstarts be trusted to replace Citizens?
In the past few weeks, just as hurricane season arrived, thousands of South Florida homeowners insured by state-run Citizens have opened mailboxes to find takeover offers by small new companies. The so-called "takeout" letters, mainly from Heritage...Tags: Conservation, Rick Scott, Weston (Broward, Florida), Consumers, Coral Gables
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: On the death of a hapless icon and his question that had to be asked
Leonard PittsThere was always something hapless about Rodney King. He entered the nation's consciousness -- and its conscience -- as a shambling drunk, an unemployed black construction worker who tried to outrun L.A. police rather than be arrested for drunk driving....Tags: PCP, Racism, Los Angeles Riots (1992), American Red Cross, Civil Rights
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