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Algal blooms are a common and often menacing event along many U.S. coastlines. Some strains are toxic and can close beaches and poison seafood, posing a hazard to consumers. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) maintains a forecasting system for the Gulf of Mexico to warn of harmful Florida blooms. On Thursday, on the other side of the continent, Senator Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, urged the NOAA to direct at least $500,000 to assess a disastrous red tide - a form of algal bloom. "The state of Maine is currently besieged by the most virulent red tide event...
Real estate in New York and Florida $22 million...
...uneven distribution of homelessness: "More than half of all homeless people on a single night in January 2008 were found in just five states: California (157,277), New York (61,125), Florida (50,158), Texas (40,190) and Michigan (28,248). Their share is disproportionate, as these states constitute only 36% of the total U.S. population. Mississippi, South Dakota, and Kansas had the nation's lowest concentration of homeless persons ... In both 2007 and 2008, one in five people homeless on a single night in January were in Los Angeles, New York, or Detroit." (See "Giving Kolkata's Homeless Kids...
...have to go to Florida, though, to be reminded that if you're in the housing market right now, the thing you want to be is a buyer. Marked-down properties account for more than 30% of listings in 15 other cities, including Boston, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Honolulu and Tucson, Ariz. Even that may be an understatement of the discounts that are to be had: houses that were taken off the market and then relisted at a lower price weren't included in the analysis. (See how Americans are spending...
...Florida officials, including Governor Charlie Crist, propose putting a bounty on the snakes' heads. But hunting elusive and barely visible pythons in the wild is difficult at best - though that hasn't stopped South Florida hunters and hunting clubs from tramping out to state wildlife preserves to whip up enthusiasm for python extermination and then posting trophy photos of themselves with 10- to 15-ft. snakes on the Internet. And any effective bounty program in Florida would require lifting the ban on hunting in the federally managed Everglades, something U.S. officials say they are considering...