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Mix history, art in Palm Beach at the Flagler Museum
If ever a room was aptly named, it's the Grand Hall of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach. The 5,000 square-foot reception hall is adorned with almost every conceivable trapping of Gilded Age splendor: A bust of Caesar Augustus atop a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, Artists, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Annie Leibovitz
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Move Over Law confuses drivers
Q: I need a clarification of Florida's Move Over Law. One can interpret the law that you have to reduce your speed 20 mph under the speed limit or move over a lane only when police or emergency workers are involved rendering assistance. Does this also...Tags: Boynton Beach, Judges, Florida Department of Transportation, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Crime, Law and Justice
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Long waits the norm at Commercial and Dixie
Q: What is going on with the left turn arrows from Commercial Boulevard to southbound Dixie Highway? Is it necessary to sit through two cycles of the signal to get a green arrow? Pauline Duimstra, Oakland Park A: The problem is too much traffic in all...Tags: Boynton Beach, Travel, Transportation, Florida Department of Transportation, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
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Buzz over train travel needs a community conversation
The folk from Florida East Coast Industries came in to see us this week, and after a 90-minute session, eight words kept ringing in my ears: "That's a conversation the community needs to have." Husein Cumber, FECI's executive vice president of corporate...Tags: Railway Transportation, Orlando International Airport, Transportation, Fort Lauderdale, Trips and Vacations
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I-595 ramp from northbound U.S. 1 closed until late 2013
Q: I was going north on U.S. 1 from Hollywood and trying to get to westbound Interstate 595. The exit sign for I-595 has changed since I last drove through the area and reads "airport." I exited assuming I could get to I-595 west. Wrong. I ended up on the...Tags: Travel, Transportation, Florida Department of Transportation, Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale
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Breakers' historian, 95, transports guests to the past
To hear historian James Ponce tell it, you'd think you were back in Old Florida — when Henry Flagler built the luxury Breakers hotel in an area known for farmhouses, when a fire burned the hotel down likely from "a newfangled curling iron" left...
Tags: Port of Palm Beach, Arts and Culture, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, World War II (1939-1945), Key West
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Group trying to rescue old Seven Mile Bridge in the Keys
MARATHON — Retired truck driver Norm "Runaway Grandpa" Dille arrived at the old Seven Mile Bridge for his daily ritual. He walked about half a mile roundtrip before plunking down in a green plastic chair to gaze at nature's beauty and at Henry...Tags: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Monroe County (Florida), Jamie Lee Curtis, Arts and Culture, The Miami Herald
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New Yorkers’ wallets opened for Florida’s U.S. Senate race
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelNewly released details of campaign finance reports in Florida's U.S. Senate contest show that New Yorkers are taking a keen interest in the race, and particularly in Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson. Overall, Nelson has out-raised his expected... -
Eller Drive intersection at end of I-595 being replaced with overpass
Q: The entrance to westbound I-595 from Eller Drive and Northeast Seventh Avenue is not marked well. Drivers could easily turn into the eastbound lanes of I-595, which also are unmarked. With poor lighting and construction in the area, it's hard to pick...Tags: Travel, Florida Department of Transportation, Transportation, Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale
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Romney money bundlers quietly amassing millions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A few weeks before the Republican primary in Florida in January, the billionaire owner of the NFL's Miami Dolphins hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney at his oceanfront home in Palm Beach. The average voter wouldn't know about...
Tags: Primaries, Federal Election Commission, The Associated Press, Terrence Ross, Finance
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