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Final bell tolling for Hollywood water tower clocks?
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsLooks like the city of Hollywood has finally given up on its jinxed water tower clocks, which never worked right and stood as a fitting symbol of the city's mismanagement and fiscal woes. A reader alerted me to workers taking......Tags: Career and Workplace, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Job Layoffs
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Fading to black -- Hollywood's cuckoo clocks and Blockbuster stores
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsYou know the old saying, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." Not in Hollywood. The city's $86,000 electronic clocks on the water tower at I-95 and Sheridan Street are completely kaput again, the latest in a never-ending......Tags: Blockbuster, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Sumner Redstone, Netflix Inc., Napster Inc.
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Boynton Beach delegation meets Haitian president
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsA Boynton Beach delegation that did not include elected officials met with Haitian President Michel Martelly late last month. Les Cayes' mayor and police chief also welcomed the delegation on Feb. 17. The city of Boynton Beach's sole representative,......Tags: Local Government, Public Officials, Government, Politics, Boynton Beach
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Third of Maryland now in drought
Maryland WeatherThe new Drought Monitor map, released Thursday morning, shows that nearly a third of Maryland is now in "moderate" to "extreme" drought, with the most serious drought in Western Maryland. Southern Maryland and the Lower Eastern Shore are also struggling...Tags: Delaware, Washington, DC, Frederick County (Maryland), Rivers, Frederick County (Virginia)
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Environmentalists, West Coast win a round in South Florida water fight
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsIn the often politically-charged fight over how to divvy up South Florida???s water supply, the West Coast and environmental groups this week moved the needle a little farther their way. The South Florida Water Management District on Thursday agreed to......Tags: Water Restrictions, South Florida Water Management District, Fishing, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution
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Conflict of interest waivers proposed for South Florida water board
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsSouth Florida water managers on Wednesday are being asked to waive conflict of interest concerns for members of an advisory board made up of competing special interest groups that weigh in on how to divvy up water supplies. The South......Tags: Kenny Thomas, Water Restrictions, Ethics, South Florida Water Management District, Broward County
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Dry weather signaling start of another round of South Florida water fights
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsAfter South Florida???s record dry October, drought concerns are already ramping up the seemingly annual political fights over how to divvy up Lake Okeechobee???s water. The lake serves as South Florida???s primary backup water supply. This week,...Tags: Water Restrictions, South Florida Water Management District, Wildlife, Lake Okeechobee, Rivers
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Hollywood's fancy new water tower LED screens have glitches
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsAs if police layoffs and across-the-board pay cuts for city workers aren't bad enough, Hollywood's budget dysfunction has a fitting new symbol: Malfunctioning LED screens on the refurbished water tower overlooking I-95. The $86,000 screens are supposed to... -
Boynton Beach City Manager resigns after 11 years
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsThursday was City Manager Kurt Bressner???s last day after 11 years at the helm in Boynton Beach. He took a farewell tour of sorts to various city facilities, including the water treatment and sewer plant, and said his goodbyes to......Tags: Boynton Beach, Mass Media, Twitter, Inc., Arts and Culture
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Hollywood clock woes continue
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsYou know the old saying, "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day?" Well, leave it to messed-up Hollywood to mess that one up. The troubled city's troubled new water tower clocks, which I blogged about last month, went......Tags: Human Interest, Weather Reports, Weather
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Laura Bush: U.S. relations 'on the mend'
The Swampby Mark Silva Heading into Paris, where U.S.-Franco relations have been frayed by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and other issues, First Lady Laura Bush asserted somewhat confidently: "I think it's on the mend.'' President Bush delivers an address there......Tags: Law Enforcement, Charity, White House, Religious Leaders, Social Issues
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Golf courses deserve watering exemption
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsSo, the permanent twice-a-week watering restrictions proposed by the South Florida Water Management District includes an exemption for golf courses. The easy thing to do is gripe-and-moan about the unfairness of it all, like why should a bunch of...Tags: Water Restrictions, South Florida Water Management District, Conservation, Wildlife, Sports
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