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Nine years later, Miccosukee checkpoint on Loop Road persists despite complaints
Miami HeraldIn the fading daylight, 22 miles west of Krome Avenue, an armed, uniformed Miccosukee security officer idled inside a white SUV just south of the state road that knifes though the vast Everglades. He stopped each car that turned onto Loop Road, a...Tags: Lawyers, Casino and Gambling, Everglades, The Miami Herald, Lobbying
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Miami judge fines Lewis and Tein $50,000 in Miccosukee case
Miami HeraldA Miami judge slapped two prominent defense lawyers with a $50,000 fine Wednesday after deciding he had originally sanctioned them too little on the mistaken belief that their legal fees were not that high and their bills were not paid by the Miccosukee...Tags: Judges, Lawyers, Laws, The Miami Herald, Business Enterprises
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One year after U.S. Sugar land deal, property still waiting for Everglades restoration
One year after Florida’s $197 million land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp., the 26,800 acres of farmland that was supposed to mean a new direction for Everglades restoration remains citrus groves and sugar cane.
The South Florida Water Management...Tags: Rick Scott, Palm Beach County, Charlie Crist, South Florida Water Management District, Renovation
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Federal judge questions results of Everglades phosphorus clean-up
Florida needs to do more to address polluting phosphorus flowing into the northern reaches of the Everglades, but shouldn’t face punishment for not yet meeting clean-up thresholds, according to a federal court ruling released Friday.
U.S....Tags: Punishment, Judges, Environmental Pollution, South Florida Water Management District, Natural Resources
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Rocker Lee Tiger says Miccosukees' move from Everglades changed their diet
In the 1960s and '70s, Lee Tiger performed with Steve Winwood, the Allman Brothers and other rock legends.
Tiger says he was able to avoid the hard drugs that destroyed so many other musicians of the era, although he admits he was no angel, and remains...Tags: Weight, Hospitals and Clinics, Minority Groups, Obesity, Native Americans
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Costs grow for Everglades reservoir left unfinished by sugar deal
South Florida Sun-SentinelTack on another $12 million to the taxpayers' tab for the cost of a massive, unfinished reservoir rendered obsolete by a proposed half-billion-dollar Everglades-restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. A suggested $12 million settlement to terminate...Tags: Charlie Crist, Palm Beach County, State Budgets, South Florida Water Management District, Contracts
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Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar moves forward
South Florida water managers on Friday opted not to use what was likely their last chance to back out of a $197 million Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. After more than two years of legal fights and financial problems, the South...Tags: Palm Beach County, Renovation, Property, South Florida Water Management District, Water Restrictions
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Courtroom Drama Over Crist's Everglades Land Deal
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsThe months-long legal fight over Gov. Charlie Crist???s blockbuster Everglades land deal finally delivered a ???Law & Order??? moment Thursday during a tense courtroom standoff between South Florida???s top water official and one of Big Sugar???s toughest...Tags: Court Administration, Charlie Crist, South Florida Water Management District, Lawyers, Water Restrictions
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Tea Party willing to sacrifice $10 million of taxpayer money to sink Crist's U.S. Sugar land deal
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsTea Party activists who preach fiscal responsibility are willing to sacrifice $10 million of South Florida taxpayers??? money to try to scrap a $197 million Everglades restoration land deal. Tea Party protests failed to stop the South Florida Water...Tags: Charlie Crist, Farms, State Budgets, South Florida Water Management District, Renovation
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Closing arguments end in lawsuit against Everglades land deal
South Florida Sun SentinelOpponents to a half-billion-dollar Everglades land buy Thursday called for a judge to kill the deal they say sprang from political pressure applied by Gov. Charlie Crist and survived "misrepresentations" by South Florida water managers. Months of on-...Tags: Local Elections, Judges, Palm Beach County, South Florida Water Management District, Renovation
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Judge allows Crist's Everglades land deal to move forward
South Florida Sun-SentinelA judge's ruling Wednesday kept alive Gov. Charlie Crist's bid for a half-billion-dollar Everglades restoration land deal with U.S. Sugar Corp. But Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Donald Hafele struck down the proposal to borrow as much as $2.2...Tags: Judges, Palm Beach County, Renovation, South Florida Water Management District, Lawyers
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Sides argue pros and cons of U.S. Sugar deal
South Florida Sun-SentinelOpponents to an Everglades land deal have stepped up their attacks on a plan they say costs taxpayers too much and threatens to set back environmental restoration. Critics of the $536 million deal are waging a legal battle to derail Gov. Charlie Crist'...Tags: Judges, Palm Beach County, Renovation, South Florida Water Management District, Water Restrictions
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