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August 2009 News Wire Archive
August 28, 2009Judge OKs Florida's Financing Plan for Everglades Restoration Land Purchase The financing plan for Florida's land deal with U.S. Sugar was approved by a circuit court judge on Wednesday, but only for a portion of the land the state wishes to acquire. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele ruled that water managers can use bonds to finance the $536 million purchase of 73,000 acres of land now planted with sugar cane and citrus orchards that will be used for Everglades water restoration projects. Read more of this story here August 27, 2009Palm Beach County backs down from affordable housing rules WEST PALM BEACH - Large swaths of Palm Beach County agricultural land still open to development no longer have to abide by affordable-housing requirements, county commissioners decided Tuesday. Read more of this story here August 27, 2009 Unexpected commission defeat for 'Miami 21' zoning plan MIAMI - Miami commissioners late Thursday killed Miami 21, the sweeping zoning overhaul that promised to be one of outgoing Mayor Manny Diaz's signature reforms. Read more of this story here August 26, 2009Palm Beach County gives new sugar industry a boost WEST PALM BEACH - By opening more former Everglades land to new industry, Palm Beach County commissioners Tuesday decided the lure of jobs was worth a likely legal fight with environmentalists. Read more of this story here August 25, 2009BB&T faces marketing challenges in Florida BB&T vaulted from No. 17 in deposits market share in Florida to No. 5 through acquiring Colonial through its brokered agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Read more of this story here August 23, 2009St. Joe Company's Big Plans and Drastic Impacts The construction of a new airport and industrial district on Florida's panhandle characterizes the impact of the St. Joe Company, the state's biggest landowner and one in the midst of drastically changing the area's landscape. Read more of this story here August 22, 2009The Perils of interview attire My last major job search took place in 1999, when I was looking to interview for accounting opportunities at large corporations. The only clothing decision I made at the time was whether the stripes on my tie would be red or blue. That is to say that interviewing attire in that situation was unquestionably suit-and-tie. Read more of this story here August 21, 2009The Panhandle Paradox Are The St. Joe Company's development plans for huge swaths of timberland in northwest Florida an environmentally sensitive 'New Ruralism' or a serious threat to irreplaceable ecosystems? Read more of this story here August 19, 2009Florida Population Drops For First Time Since 1946 Florida’s population declined last year for the first time since 1946 as the steep national recession put the brakes on in-state migration and also sent many residents packing, University of Florida researchers reported Monday. Read more of this story here August 18, 2009Can Critically Endangered Panther be saved? One of more than 20 subspecies of cougar and native to the southeastern United States, the Florida Panther is most certainly still highly endangered. Biologists estimate that less than 100 of the animals are alive in the wild today, hanging on in the southern tip of Florida below the Caloosahatchee River. Their current range represents less than five percent of where they originally roamed across Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and parts of Tennessee and South Carolina. Read more of this story here August 17, 2009Florida Cabinet OK's first new nuclear plant in 33 yrs TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved Progress Energy's controversial proposal to build a nuclear plant in Levy County, the first such plant approved in Florida in 33 years. The vote by Gov. Charlie Crist, Attorney General Bill McCollum and Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink comes as Progress seeks to raise its base rates by 30 percent to pay for the nuclear plant, which would not be up and running until at least 2018. Read more of this story here August 15, 2009What does LEED stand for? Retailers like Sweetbay learn as they build green TARPON SPRINGS — Think your place is an energy hog? Consider the $26,000 monthly electric bill to run a supermarket. To corral energy costs in a new Sweetbay Supermarket rising at Alt. U.S. 19 and Meres Boulevard, the Tampa-based chain is installing glass doors over the usually open dairy, beer and deli meat coolers. They're wiring motion sensors that turn on low-power LED lights when a freezer door opens. In the ceiling, 11 air conditioning units gobble a third less juice. Read more of this story here Next commercial hot spot: SR64 EAST MANATEE — The stretch of State Road 64 East between Rye and Lorraine roads is emerging as one of Manatee County’s future commercial hot spots. Developers recently have built or are hoping to construct at least four commercial projects along the mile-long section of road, ranging from medical offices to a neighborhood shopping center, public records show. Read more of this story here U.S., Florida reach Everglades restoration deal The agreement ends years of dispute over splitting up a ballooning restoration bill, which is expected to top $22 billion, and clears the way to quickly -- and finally -- begin long-stalled construction work. |
August 2009
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August 2009 News Wire Archive
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