Word: broward
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...population explosion. But even as he spoke, the legislature was shutting down the state's "boot camps" for juvenile offenders, get-tough facilities Jeb had long supported, because a black teen had died in January after a beating by camp guards. Says Mitch Ceasar, head of Florida's Broward County Democratic Party, "This is still a very centrist state, and Jeb Bush is very often out of step with most Floridians and, I think, most Americans...
...haven, Florida, pleading with seniors not to miss out on what he calls "a fantastic opportunity." "We want people to understand that they are going to save a lot of money when it comes to prescription drugs," Bush told dozens of elderly who had gathered at Ft. Lauderdale's Broward Community College for enrollment help from government officials, as loudspeakers played Frank Sinatra's "Young At Heart...
...Orange County, Fla., investors are saving more than $7 million each year by claiming that plots being converted into shopping malls and subdivisions are farmland and qualify for property-tax breaks. Farther south, near Fort Lauderdale, "we have cows walking over pavement and grazing outside hotels," says Broward County appraiser Lori Parrish. She points to a Courtyard by Marriott, where some 40 head of cattle had cut yearly taxes on the 18-acre plot to $618.94 before the hotel opened. The herd did not check out when the Courtyard started welcoming guests last year: in 2005 the cows chewed some...
...Pakistan, among other things. Now Faris' attorney and dozens of other lawyers involved in some major terrorism cases are planning to file court challenges to see where the information on their clients came from. Miami attorney Kenneth Swartz represents Adham Amin Hassoun, a Lebanese-born Palestinian who lived in Broward County, Fla., and has been charged, along with Padilla, in an alleged conspiracy to commit terrorist acts abroad. Swartz says if any of the wiretaps used to build a case against his client were done "without legal authority, it would be a real constitutional issue...
...least eight major storms in the past 14 months-four since June. "You just can't expect people to be on edge, to be ready for war, all the time," said doctor's aide Mike Dorsainbille, 31, as he waited for gas in Pompano Beach, in hard-hit Broward County. But any criticism of Florida paled in comparison to the scrutiny put on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for which Wilma was a chance to redeem itself after the debacle of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA did perform more ably this time; but it fell short of redemption thanks to a Rube...