Category: Issues
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Split Hallandale commission votes to give Miami developer Tibor Hollo big break on fines
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach city commissioners have let a prominent developer off the hook for nearly half-a-million dollars in fines for property code violations accumulated before it bought the land at a much lower price than paid by the former owners. -
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Drilling Deeper: The Wealth of Connections for Obama’s Energy Pick
By Justin Elliott
ProPublica
President Obama’s energy secretary nominee Ernest Moniz is a nuclear scientist who spent the last decade serving on a range of boards and advisory councils for energy industry heavyweights, including some that do business with the Department of Energy. -
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Conflicts of interest run rampant in state legislatures, including Florida
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Center for Public Integrity
SANTA FE — On February 20, New Mexico’s House Energy and Natural Resources Committee gathered for one of its regular meetings in a drab room here at the capitol, a circular building known as the Roundhouse. On the agenda: a bill that would hike fees and penalties for energy companies drilling wells in the state. -
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Medicaid cuts top Broward Health’s concerns for the 2013 legislative session
By Karla Bowsher
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward Health could lose at least $6.5 million a year if Tallahassee lawmakers ignore their pleas not to reduce Medicaid health insurance payments. That’s on top of $179 million the north Broward public hospital system expects to lose to federal cutbacks over the next decade. -
Florida Senate passes sweeping ethics reform package
By Nicholas Kusnetz
Center for Public Integrity
The Republican-controlled Florida Senate unanimously passed a landmark ethics reform package on Tuesday, the first day of the legislative session, setting the stage for what could be the first major changes to the state’s ethics laws in decades. -
Broward Inspector General slams Hallandale for “gross mismanagement”; CRAs elsewhere eyed
By William Gjebre and Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward’s Inspector General has found that Hallandale Beach officials “grossly mismanaged” millions of dollars in public funds “entrusted to the care of its Community Redevelopment Agency,” says report.
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