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Planning a trip to the Smithsonian Butterfly Pavilion
THE SMITHSONIAN BUTTERFLY PAVILION Where: Second floor of the National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Open: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily; last entrance at 5:15 p.m. Admission: The museum is free;...Tags: Travel, Museum of Natural History, Forestry and Timber, Forests, Natural Resources
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Bulletin Board
Monday Fort Lauderdale Home Design & Remodeling Show, noon to 7:30 p.m. at Broward County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. $10 adults; $1 children. Call 305-667-9299. Splash Adventure, 9:30 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. at Quiet Waters...Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Panera Bread Company, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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Sun Sentinel investigation: Towing abuses in Broward still rampant
Tow truck drivers are operating in frequent and flagrant violation of a new Broward law meant to protect drivers from towing abuses, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found. The newspaper surveilled tow spots, analyzed more than three years of data,...
Tags: Laws, Pompano Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Credit and Debt, Sawgrass Mills
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Coconut Creek manager resigns, gets $220,000 severance
City Manager Dave Rivera resigned at a commission meeting Thursday night. He left at the behest of three commissioners, who said he was routinely disrespectful and had anger management issues that led him to yell at them and at residents regularly.... -
Memorial Day weekend: Casino giveaways abound
Memorial Day weekend is coming up, and while some folks like to hang out and grill by the pool, others like being inside -- and casinos know that. So there are some big giveaways in the next few days: Seminole Casino Coconut Creek (5550 NW 40th St.,...
Tags: Holidays, Hallandale Beach, Pompano Beach, Memorial Day
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Age is a gift
Civic-oriented and forward-thinking commissioners should be elected, and age has little if anything to do with it. Intellect and foresight are required, not cynicism. The May 21 letter writer's commentary lacks both. I am approaching a 65-year milestone,... -
To do Thursday: A Quadski demo, Free Like Me and the Bobby Lee Rodgers Trio
Music Bobby Lee Rodgers: An endlessly versatile guitarist (the former instructor in the Berklee jazz program has plugged in at Wanee and at a Wes Montgomery tribute night), Rodgers just released an album of jazzy-bluesy gumbo titled "Firefly." But...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale
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Memorial Day events in Broward County
Monday Coconut Creek Ceremony, 9 a.m. at Veterans Park, 3550 Lyons Road. Activities include speakers, Coconut Creek Police Department Honor Guard and Coconut Creek High School Jr. ROTC. Call 954-545-6670. Coral Springs Ceremony, 9 a.m. at Veterans...
Tags: Hallandale Beach, North Lauderdale, Rodeo, Bergeron Rodeo Grounds, Memorial Day
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Angry city manager can laugh all the way to the bank
Like sports coaches, city managers are hired to get fired. And they usually leave laughing all the way to the bank, like ex-Miramar manager Robert Payton, who quit earlier this year and left with a total benefits package worth $2.4 million. Broward's...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Miramar, Hallandale Beach, Lighthouse Point, Pembroke Pines
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Coconut Creek to demonstrate 'Quadski'
If you don't know what a quadski is, you have plenty of company. But it's a prize on Monday at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. So the casino will give a free demonstration of the GIBBS Quadski, the amphibious personal watercraft, at 10 a.m. Thursday...
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Coconut Creek manager expected to resign this week
Two weeks after commissioners publicly criticized him and said he has anger management issues, City Manager Dave Rivera is poised to resign. The City Commission is scheduled to consider the resignation and retirement of Rivera, who has worked in the... -
Mayo: Would you be a contract prima donna or a pro?
Sun Sentinel ColumnistIf you had a contract that would pay you nine months salary if you left your job, and you were entering the final year of that contract and it was apparent your bosses wouldn't be giving you a new one, what would you do? 1. Cop a bad attitude, bolt...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Lotteries, Politics, Casino and Gambling, Interior Policy
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