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South Florida is riveted on the BP oil spill and the Loop Current, but in Manalapan they've got other things washing on the beach: A suspicious device washed ashore on the beach this morning, prompting a call to the bomb squad, police said. Manalapan Police and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office bomb squad investigated …
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Well, at least the rich: A fledging private effort to rein in the amount of taxes residents pay for county programs is taking shape. About a dozen residents met Thursday at the North End (of Palm Beach) home of Town Council President David Rosow to discuss how to achieve that objective, according to resident Stuart …
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Palm Beach mulls the expansion of the popular Publix supermarket: At a symposium Tuesday, residents seemed generally open toward Publix Super Markets’ plan for a new and larger Palm Beach store. Many told Publix officials they want more organic foods and need to know more about the interior plans and product mix. But Publix officials …
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Nancy Pelosi's "requirement" of numerous police and security personnel on a recent visit of Palm Beach is something that I found curious. But it also got me thinking about the strange--surreal, in many ways--state of our political process. Palm Beach shouldn't be a threatening kind of place for Nancy Pelosi. It's in a house district …
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True words, spoken by Aerospace Industries Association CEO Marion Blakey at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches: “Let’s face it, it will be a long time — if ever — before a robot could repair the Hubble telescope or make the many adjustments needed to add modules to the International Space Station,” Blakey said. …
It decided the Mayor's race: An appellate court has affirmed a Palm Beach County Circuit Court judge’s decision upholding the result of the town’s February 2009 mayoral election. Mayor Jack McDonald defeated challenger Gerry Goldsmith by a single vote in a Feb. 21 recount of a Feb. 17 runoff between the two. In an opinion …
Not a moment too soon either: There's been a sharp drop in the percentage of America's children being bullied or beaten up by their peers, according to a new national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are having an impact. The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, found that the percentage of …
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My fellow South Floridian Gerald Posner has gotten himself into quite a pickle at the Daily Beast after accusations of plagiarism: Last Friday, Jack Shafer in Slate ran an article pinpointing five sentences from one of my stories in The Daily Beast, which I admitted met the definition of plagiarism and I accepted full responsibility …
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And in this case I'm not referring to the attorneys: Sharks gathered off Reef Road Thursday morning, but were not moving into public swimming areas. Mark Hassell, town lifeguard supervisor, reported Thursday that no sharks were seen congregating at Midtown Beach or Phipps Ocean Park. Both public beaches remained open. Midtown Beach was closed for …
If Galbraith, whose economics are back in vogue again, wasn't one, they don't exist: Here we reach the heart of the matter. Galbraith’s thinking about social and economic matters was always de haut en bas; his solutions emerged from the Olympian heights of his own ratiocination, to be applied to the clueless multitudes below. (No …
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