Category: Department of Transportation

Apr 29, 2014 6:07 AM

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All Aboard Florida: Boon or Boondoggle?

By Ann Henson
BrowardBulldog.org
A growing number of local and federal government officials want to put the brakes on the proposed passenger train between Miami and Orlando before some say it becomes one big boondoggle placed on the backs of Florida taxpayers. At the core of their concerns are questions about All Board Florida, the private rail project pushing the proposal.
Jan 17, 2013 6:17 AM

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Fort Lauderdale hopes for state and federal money to repair crumbling neighborhood bridges

By Ann Henson Feltgen
BrowardBulldog.org
Its ocean-access waterways and backyard yachts define Fort Lauderdale’s pricey Harbor Beach neighborhood. Yet despite its wealth, and its reliance on the water, the neighborhood is home to several of the worst bridges in Fort Lauderdale.
Apr 26, 2012 6:30 AM

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Florida criminal probe, whistleblower suit spotlight tree poisoning to make way for billboards

By Myron Levin, Lilly Fowler and Stuart Silverstein
FairWarning
Robert J. Barnhart was a crew chief for a billboard company, and a soldier in a war on trees. Trees were the enemy if they spoiled the view of a billboard. On days of an attack, Barnhart, 27, would arrive by dawn at Lamar Advertising Co. in Tallahassee, Fla. After removing the magnetic Lamar logo from a company truck, he would set forth with a machete, a hospital mask and a container of what he described as a “pretty gnarly” herbicide.