Archive for the 'Florida' Category
28% of Orlando-Area Housing Units Vacant
January 27th, 2010Via: Orlando Sentinel: Orlando had more vacant houses, condos and apartments than any other major U.S. city during the third quarter, driving down rents and sparking landlord concessions just five years after finding an apartment was virtually impossible. The four-county metro area had a vacancy rate of 28 percent for all housing in the late […]
Florida: Record Cold Killed Millions of Fish
January 20th, 2010Via: Miami Herald: Everywhere he steered his skiff last week, Pete Frezza saw dead fish. From Ponce de Leon Bay on the Southwest Coast down across Florida Bay to Lower Matecumbe in the Florida Keys — day after day, dead fish. Floating in the marina at Flamingo in Everglades National Park alone he counted more […]
PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
January 20th, 2010Via: NextGov: As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts. On Monday, Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information […]
Record Electricity Demand in Florida as People Try to Stay Warm
January 11th, 2010Via: Florida Today: Demand for electricity across the bitterly cold Sunshine State has shattered Florida Power and Light’s all-time record. “This morning, we set a new all-time record peak load on the electrical system, with customers drawing more than 23,500 megawatt-hours of power,” said Sarah Marmion, FPL spokeswoman. “This breaks FPL’s previous peak record, which […]
Burned Remains of Playboy Model Found in Dumpster
January 8th, 2010What is it about Florida? Via: Miami Herald: A woman visiting Miami with her boyfriend for the holidays was found burned in a trash bin after a night out clubbing. Paula Sladewski and her boyfriend flew into South Florida to spend New Year’s Eve at a Lady Gaga concert at Miami Beach’s posh Fontainebleau. But […]
Living on Nothing but Food Stamps
January 5th, 2010Via: New York Times: After an improbable rise from the Bronx projects to a job selling Gulf Coast homes, Isabel Bermudez lost it all to an epic housing bust — the six-figure income, the house with the pool and the investment property. Now, as she papers the county with résumés and girds herself for rejection, […]
Real Estate in Cape Coral Is Far From a Recovery
January 4th, 2010Via: New York Times: FELLOW adventurers, refugees from winter and armchair archaeologists, we are here on this shiny green tour bus to embark on a safari of sorts. We’ll be exploring the local habitat, as upended and reconfigured by an epochal real estate fiasco. Our guide, Marc Joseph, stalks wildlife of the white-elephant variety. A […]
Drug Money Saved Banks During Global Drisis, Claims UN Advisor
December 14th, 2009Via: Guardian: Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were […]
SEC Orders Miami to Turn Over Its Financial Books
December 13th, 2009Via: Miami Herald: The federal government has set its sights on Miami, launching an inquiry over a series of bond deals and money transfers this decade. In a sweeping investigation that could impact Miami’s public projects for years, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the city’s major bond offerings between 2006 and 2009 […]
Florida: Fines for Too-Tall Grass Could Rise to $1,000 a Day in Jupiter
November 17th, 2009Via: Palm Beach Post: An overgrown lawn could cost a homeowner $1,000 a day. A plan to quadruple the penalty from the current maximum of $250 per day for a first violation is scheduled for consideration at Tuesday night’s town council meeting. A repeat violation by the same person would be boosted to $5,000 a […]
