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Like a man revisiting the scene of a bad car wreck, former Vice President Al Gore came to Palm Beach County, Fla., on Friday. Palm Beach, you may recall, is where butterfly ballots, hanging chads and other election catastrophes helped thwart Gore's efforts to win Florida's electoral votes - and the presidency - in 2000. That bizarre recount drama gave the White House to George W. Bush by just 537 ballots. This time Gore was stumping for Barack Obama, but memories of the 2000 debacle were surely not forgotten, especially since Palm Beach keeps experiencing electoral mishaps. The county...
...front of me in the press box just told me about Conner Kempe's near fatal kit-board accident off the coast of Jupiter, Fla...
...because race is completely irrelevant as to whether someone should be the next President! Sure there are some bigots who will vote solely based on race, but to imply that for many Americans the economy and race are issues of comparable weight is simply insulting. Zachary Nass, Merritt Island, Fla...
...Tripper. Discovery Cruise Line is offering free day cruises to Grand Bahama Island from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for military personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Register online, and the company will send an email entitling service members to the complimentary cruise. The offer's good until...
Nicholae Blanchard, an agent in Cape Coral, Fla., says she has been waiting for a year for a bank to approve one deal. In all, she has completed 10 short sales on behalf of buyers or sellers this year, but she says things have been getting slower lately. She's had only one deal approved in the past two weeks - and that was for a vacant lot. Two other deals were rejected. Blanchard says banks and investors are dragging their feet to see how the government bailout will benefit them. "The bank negotiators told me they are doing fewer short...