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We can always count on Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle for making a dumb statement or stirring up controversy. Thanks to term limits, he can’t run again, so he’s being more outrageous than ever. His latest pet idea is a $250,000 robotic toilet aimed to prevent the “homosexual activity” that he said plagues other public [...]

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The courtroom spectacle over Anna Nicole Smith is taking place not too far from here in the Broward County courthouse. One of my friends works for a law firm, so she happened to be at the courthouse today. She ended up getting stuck there over lunch time because of the crowd. She even got to [...]

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Residents who paid half a million or more for new hi-rise condos in Downtown Fort Lauderdale are complaining about the noise. Now I’m sure these people knew what they were getting into when they bought those condos. They wanted to live downtown for the night life and now they’re complaining about the same night life [...]

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Snow in South Florida!

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Sun-Sentinel: Florida was 31st out of the 50 states in a ranking of how well they are preparing young people to achieve success in their academics and careers, according to a new assessment released Wednesday by Education Week magazine.
We can thank the FCATs for this. The only thing our schools teach the kids is how [...]

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On October 24 last year, Hurricane Wilma hit us. We were without electricity for 10 days, many roofs were damaged, and we lost a lot of trees. Several roofs have already been replaced, but we’re still waiting for the rest of them. Thankfully we had no major storms this season.

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We were lucky this time. We got some rain and very little wind. There was no damage, no flooding, and we never lost electricity. Only one small tree with very shallow roots fell down.

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Here we go again!

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Via Sun Sentinel: “South Florida motorists who endured long lines at gasoline pumps after Hurricane Wilma last year might get some relief if another big storm hits this year — but power outages and panic buying could still cause shortages.
That’s why I bought a Prius.

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The storm seems to be fizzling out and may not remain a tropical storm for much longer. It will probably bring us lots of rain this weekend but not much more.

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There’s trouble brewing in the tropics and it may affect us in a few days. I just hope it won’t delay my flight to WWDC Sunday.

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The Sun-Sentinel reports that Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Raul on Monday night and told Cubans that he had undergone surgery.
The Cuban leader said he had suffered intestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress from recent public appearances in Argentina and Cuba, according to the letter read live on television by [...]

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First we had a water main break so our water was off for most of the day. They still have to come back and fix it tomorrow, so the water will be turned off again in the morning. To top things off, our electricity went out about 6:30 during a big thunderstorm. It came back [...]

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I read about the 100 Mile Diet on Newsvine and it sounds interesting. When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically traveled at least 1,500 miles from farm to plate. That’s a total disconnection from where our food is coming from.
Rising fuel prices are raising food prices (along with almost [...]

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These guys sound more like a lone group of bumbling kooks than an organized terrorist cell. They’re probably harmless, but kooks can be dangerous no matter how inept they are.

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Tropical Storm Alberto formed over the weekend and it’s expected to strengthen into a category 1 hurricane soon. It’s expected to hit the gulf coast but will probably bring us some rain here.

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Today is the official first day of the hurricane season and it started out with a bang. I woke up at around 6AM to a big thunderstorm, which lasted a few hours. Around 10AM our power went out and stayed out until a little after 12PM.

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On April 17, Daniel Wultz of Weston captured international attention after he and his father, Tuly, were injured during a Passover trip to Israel. Tuly Wultz was dining with his devout son on the patio of the kosher Mayor’s Falafel when a suicide bomber, thought to be a member of the Islamic Jihad, blew up [...]

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We had a sudden heavy rainstorm this afternoon. After the rain stopped, I found most of the plants in my garden knocked down & flattened. A little before 6PM we lost power for about 20 minutes.

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My condo had the annual meeting tonight. I’m on the board for the second year, although we didn’t have to vote since we only had 7 candidates and there are 7 board members. We did have to vote for or against reserves, as we do every year. Since we don’t currently have reserves, if that [...]

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