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What you need to know about Florida today
› Local author brings Florida’s 20’s land boom to life with glamour and grace
It was standing room only at Patricia Yost’s recent lecture at The Delray Beach Historical Society. Dozens of people packed into the 1926 bungalow to witness the former Vogue editor’s lecture on the famous Florida real estate boom on the 1920s. Patricia Yost delivered a dynamic presentation on Florida during the jazz age and the innovative people who paved the way to turn the Sunshine State into the booming tourism destination it is today.
› Key West cosmetic cream shop sues 15 locals for calling it a ‘rip off’
The owners of a cosmetic cream shop on Key West’s famous Duval Street have sued 15 Key West residents for regularly picketing the store’s entrance with signs and T-shirts that call it a “rip off shop.” Nir Chen and Zohar Alon, who own Orogold, 518 Duval St., say the protesters have cost them more than $250,000 in profits and have also ruined their reputations through libel, defamation and slander.
› Princess Cruises ship headed back to Florida after second stomach bug outbreak
The Princess Cruises ship that sails out of Port Everglades was already forced to cut a two-week sailing short earlier this month after an outbreak of what the captain referred to as norovirus broke out on the ship. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet declared that the bug on that sailing is norovirus. Whatever it was it affected 371 of 3,035 passengers as well as 32 crew.
› JEA sale could have meant higher electric rates during ‘stabilization period’
JEA told companies competing to purchase the utility they would be able to charge higher electric rates during a three-year “rate stability period” compared to what JEA currently charges customers, according to newly released transcripts of negotiating sessions. The discussions in the December sessions show that while JEA told its customers that they would have stable rates if a private buyer purchased the utility, that requirement didn’t mean the rates would be frozen where they are now.
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