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Nanotechnology: Harmful or benign?

July 24, 2013 8:01 am

By Sheila Kaplan, Investigative Reporting Workshop

Nanotechnology is a booming industry. The manipulation of tiny, nanoscale particles has created breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, electronics and virtually every other sector of commerce. By 2015, the world market for products that contain nanomaterials is expected to reach $2.6 trillion, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s watchdog.

It’s growth that any industry would envy. But reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), GAO, academic researchers and manufacturers reveal the downside of such rapid development: Nobody really knows if these wonder products are safe.

Plans for a new ‘marijuana court’ advance in Broward; addressing racial disparity in arrests

July 23, 2013 6:14 am

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By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Since the birth of drug court in South Florida nearly 25 years ago, so-called problem-solving courts have proliferated in courthouses across the country. Now a new idea that would take judicial specialization a step further could debut soon in Broward after its tentative

Findings of racial disparity in Broward marijuana arrests pits Satz, Finkelstein

July 18, 2013 5:51 am

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By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Recent findings that blacks are much more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession in Broward has led State Attorney Mike Satz to issue an unusual personal defense of himself, his office and local police.

Farmworker advocates from Florida, elsewhere press EPA to update pesticide rules

July 17, 2013 2:12 pm

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By Ronnie Greene, Center for Public Integrity

Saying they are plagued by pesticides but protected by only a thin layer of government regulation, farmworkers and their advocates are pressing the Environmental Protection Agency to update rules that are two decades old, and, critics say, dangerously dated.

Farmworker advocates from Florida to California were in Washington Monday and Tuesday to press the EPA and members of Congress to tighten rules meant to protect agricultural laborers from pesticides in the fields.

“Raw nerves” in push to improve Dixie Highway in Fort Lauderdale neighborhood

July 16, 2013 6:15 am

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By William Hladky
BrowardBulldog.org
Bitter disagreement over a proposed Dixie Highway improvement project is pitting neighbor against neighbor in Fort Lauderdale’s Middle River Terrace neighborhood.

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Nanotechnology: Harmful or benign?

Plans for a new ‘marijuana court’ advance in Broward; addressing racial disparity in arrests

Findings of racial disparity in Broward marijuana arrests pits Satz, Finkelstein

Farmworker advocates from Florida, elsewhere press EPA to update pesticide rules

“Raw nerves” in push to improve Dixie Highway in Fort Lauderdale neighborhood

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