Year: 2012
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How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters
By Cora Currier
ProPublica
In a natural disaster or other emergency, one of the first things you’re likely to reach for is your cellphone. Landlines are disappearing. More than 30 percent of American households now rely exclusively on cellphones. Despite that, cell carriers have successfully pushed back against rules on what they have to do in a disaster. -
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Fight over the huge estate of a 1950s rock ‘n’ roll dance party host twists through Broward court
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
Before he built Fort Lauderdale-based Grant Communications, the late Milt Grant hosted a popular 1950s television show for teenagers with guests like Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Harry Belafonte. Today, his heirs are fighting in Broward Circuit Court over a fortune worth as much as $58 million. -
Livestock falling ill in fracking regions, raising concerns about food
By Elizabeth Royte
Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. While scientists have yet to isolate cause and effect, many suspect chemicals used in drilling and hydrofracking. -
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Despite “No Involvement” pledge, Butterworth got the kind of private deal he backed as DCF boss
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
When Bob Butterworth filed a bid last winter on a $44.8 million-a-year Department of Children and Families private management contract he signed a “Statement of No Involvement.” By signing the statement, the former Florida Attorney General certified that neither he nor anyone else at the non-profit Broward Behavioral Health Coalition was involved in developing the DCF program for the project his company was bidding on. -
Generals no longer retire to Vermont — they lobby for contractors in Washington
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Center for Public Integrity
“What can you do with a general, when he stops being a general?” crooned Bing Crosby in the 1954 movie “White Christmas.” “Who’s got a job for a general when he stops being a general?” Alas, the answer, 58 years later, is now clear. -
Broward IG says Hallandale made “immense” gaffe in overseeing $12.7 million in city bonds
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Initial findings by Broward’s Inspector General of mismanagement at Hallandale Beach City Hall have led officials to revise plans for a $12.7 million bond issue, according to city and county records obtained by BrowardBulldog.org.
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