April 25, 2024
Government/Politics & Law
Did Anyone Notice?
With all eyes focused on New Orleans and other Gulf communities, many business owners in Broward, Palm Beach and other parts of southeast Florida devastated by Hurricane Wilma in October are wondering if the world has forgotten them.
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Published on 1/1/2006
Roots vs. Reach
Two prominent Florida law firms take different approaches in trying to appeal to clients.
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Published on 1/1/2006
Enough Juice?
A contentious local plebiscite over energy policy in Tallahassee offered a glimpse of the future in a world where oil is unlikely to see $10 a barrel again.
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Published on 1/1/2006
Fowler Play
Tampa-based, 200-lawyer Fowler White Boggs Banker continues its push into south Florida with a move to a 12,500-sq.-ft. office in West Palm Beach's One Clearlake Centre.
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Published on 12/1/2005
On Campus
University of Miami; University of Florida; Florida State; Stetson College of Law.
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Published on 12/1/2005
Debtors Prism
Many provisions of the new federal Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act were written with Florida in mind.
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Published on 12/1/2005
A State of Discontent
For half a century, local governments and unelected redevelopment authorities have been using eminent domain, or the threat of it, to muscle residents out of their homes and businesses.
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Published on 12/1/2005
One for the History Books
Former Florida State University President Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte remembers poking through the remarkable files of Steel Hector & Davis in Miami when he was a young lawyer there in the 1960s.
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Published on 11/1/2005
A Steely Resolve
Lucy Hadi has a job that has chewed up almost everybody who has held it. She's the head of Florida's sprawling Department of Children and Families, once known in an even more sprawling form as Health and Rehabilitative Services.
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Published on 11/1/2005
Getting By
Much in a new report from the LeRoy Collins Institute called "Tough Choices: Facing Florida's Revenue Shortfall" seems right on the money.
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Published on 11/1/2005
A Fight on His Hands
Since he took office in November, county Mayor Carlos Alvarez has seen his relationship with the county commission go from frosty to downright combative.
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Published on 10/1/2005
Thinking Big
When Vern Buchanan moved to Florida in January 1990, one of the first phone calls he made was to the local chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization, a membership group for corporate chief executives under 45.
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Published on 10/1/2005
An Odd Twist
The Supreme Court decision upholding a Connecticut law that allows local governments to seize private property for economic development has generated lots of "could it happen here?" discussions throughout Florida.
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Published on 10/1/2005
Taxing 'Alien Sellers'
Could an e-commerce sales tax effort lower rates?
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Published on 10/1/2005
Of Counsel In the News - Sept. 2005.
Of Counsel In the News, September 2005.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Congressional Holdings
At least eight members of Florida's congressional delegation are millionaires, according to a Florida Trend analysis, and several more are within reach of seven-digit fortunes.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Quiet Influence
Despite spending 12 years building the second-largest public health department in Florida, Duval County Health Department Director Dr. Jeffrey Goldhagen was little-known outside local civic circles.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Trendsetters - Sept. 2005
Bowman Brown, Shutts & Bowen; Albert E. Dotson Jr., Bilzin Sumberg Baena; Meenu Sasser, Gunster Yoakley & Stewart.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Whodunnit? Who Knows?
For sheer weirdness, it will be very hard to top a Judicial Qualifications Commission investigation that concluded this summer. The case is linked to dark allegations that have swirled about the Hillsborough County courthouse for years.
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Published on 9/1/2005
Open Records?
With very limited exceptions, records placed into a court file are open to public inspection. A courthouse is a public forum, after all, not a repository of secrets.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Unfiltered
Florida's rapid growth threatens to tap out Florida's water supply.
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Published on 8/1/2005
"Force of Nature"
Mikki Canton, 53, Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, Miami.
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Published on 8/1/2005
For Sale
The 91,000-acre swath of swamp and prairie that Edward Vose "E.V." Babcock bought in 1919 is today the only unbroken avenue of undeveloped land between Lake Okeechobee in the east and Charlotte Harbor on the Gulf Coast.
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Published on 8/1/2005
Development Via Democracy
For a proposed development area dubbed Innovation Way, it seems fitting that the community is providing input via a test-pilot program that incorporates some of the latest technology in land-use planning.
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Published on 8/1/2005
