Category: Issues
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Findings of racial disparity in Broward marijuana arrests pits Satz, Finkelstein
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. -
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Farmworker advocates from Florida, elsewhere press EPA to update pesticide rules
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. -
“Raw nerves” in push to improve Dixie Highway in Fort Lauderdale neighborhood
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. -
Defiant Hallandale commissioners reject call for new legal opinion on CRA spending
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach city commissioners have shot down a request from a legislative committee that it seek a new opinion from the Florida Attorney General on how community redevelopment funds can be spent and abide by the ruling. -
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Medicare fraud outrunning enforcement efforts; failures to investigate and more cuts coming
By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
Citing massive budget and staff cuts, federal officials are set to scale back or drop a host of investigations into Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse — even though cracking down on government waste and cutting health care costs have been top priorities for the Obama administration. -
The NSA black hole: 5 basic things we still don’t know about the agency’s snooping
By Justin Elliott and Theodoric Meyer
ProPublica
Last week saw revelations that the FBI and the National Security Agency have been collecting Americans’ phone records en masse and that the agencies have access to data from nine tech companies. But secrecy around the programs has meant even basic questions are still unanswered. Here’s what we still don’t know:
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