Author: Dan Christensen
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Florida ethics bill: Lobbyists at independent taxing districts must register, disclose
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
A government ethics bill introduced in the Florida Senate would for the first time require lobbyists before many large independent special districts to register and disclose their clients, areas of interest and general compensation. -
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Ex-U.S. Rep. Deutsch stirs the pot in Hollywood; New school plans upset neighbors
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Five weeks after receiving approval for a middle-senior high school in Hollywood, Ben Gamla charter school officials are exploring “substantive” changes to the project, sparking renewed controversy. -
Broward commissioners tell Henry to come up with a plan for video-on-demand of meetings
By William Hladky
BrowardBulldog.org
UPDATE: FEB. 5 – The Broward County Commission has directed the county administrator to prepare a cost analysis and implementation plan to create an on-line, video archive of commission meetings. -
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As Broward commission races take shape, LaMarca, Keechl fear nasty re-run
By Buddy Nevins
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward County Commissioner Chip LaMarca and former Commissioner Ken Keechl approach their upcoming race for the commission like a child approaches the first day of school — with anxiety and trepidation. -
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Post traumatic stress crisis ignored: Americans wounded in their own neighborhoods
By Lois Beckett
ProPublica
Chicago’s Cook County Hospital has one of the busiest trauma centers in the nation, treating about 2,000 patients a year for gunshots, stabbings and other violent injuries. So when researchers started screening patients there for post-traumatic stress disorder in 2011, they assumed they would find cases. They just didn’t know how many. -
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EPA abandons major radiation cleanup in Florida, despite cancer concerns
By Douglas P. Guarino
Center for Public Integrity
The Environmental Protection Agency is walking away after a decades-long battle with Florida politicians and industry officials over cleaning up phosphate-mining waste in an area that could expose more than 100,000 residents to cancer-causing radiation levels.
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