In Broward, Questions About Effectiveness of Restrictions: Tough Laws Limit Where They Can Live, but Critics Doubt Effectiveness
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By Madeline Baro Diaz, Jerome Burdi, Jennifer Gollan and Juan Ortega, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 3--The message was clear: No child molesters allowed.   The 2005 rape and murder of a 9-year-old Central Florida girl at the hands of a convicted sex offender shocked the nation.
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TAMPA, Florida, Sep 26 (IPS) - An influential lawyer's group in the United  States has strongly criticised Florida's death penalty  system, calling it ambiguous and secretive.
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By Robbyn Brooks, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 15--Locals may complain about the increase in condos, traffic during tourist season and the housing market.   And they're all valid complaints.
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Dismay over Washington gridlock on immigration has inspired cities and states to pass their own measures, most of which make life harder for undocumented workers and demand that employers, law enforcement officers and even landlords act as the front line.
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By Paola Iuspa-Abbott, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 21--Planners are voicing opposition to a key part of an agreement to eliminate two proposed roadways west of Boca Raton.
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A new city law designed to prevent violence at cybercafes quietly took effect Saturday, but authorities had no inspections planned to check for compliance with the tighter rules.    The ordinance requires 30 parlors in Los Angeles to enforce a curfew for minors and install surveillance cameras...
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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - A family can allow their chickens to roam their backyard, despite complaints from a neighbor, because a new city ordinance is unclear, a city board ruled.
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By Brian Skoloff  Associated Press  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A mile offshore from this city's high- rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor -- a white-walled, steel- belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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By Mimi Hall  WASHINGTON -- New government rules seeking to thwart terrorist attacks on chemical plants are facing stiff opposition from state leaders, environmentalists and others who say the regulations are flawed, vague and unlikely to protect the public.
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By Omar Sofradzija  By OMAR SOFRADZIJA  (c) 2007 REVIEW-JOURNAL  A complicated compromise could expand landowners' protections against seizures of their land, while limiting the effect such limits would have on public works projects.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida voters this month approved a three-strikes law unlike any other stateâs - a measure aimed not at killers and thieves but at doctors who foul up.
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By Stephanie Sandoval, The Dallas Morning News  Dec. 12--A group of residents hoping to force a public vote on a Farmers Branch ordinance banning apartment owners from renting to illegal immigrants didn't turn in their petition Monday as they had hoped.
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Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp professor of economics at Harvard University, directs both the Taubman Center for State Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, think tanks studying social and economic issues. Glaeser, 40, has written extensively on housing and development issues in Massachusetts. He discussed one of his studies, that the state&#146;s restrictive regulations are largely ...
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Doubts have been raised across the country about the value of using aggressive tactics to crackdown on gangs.
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By Nirvi Shah, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Wetlands present a unique obstacle to South Florida school construction.   From the northeast corner of Broward to the southwest, the limestone that can support construction becomes buried under deeper layers of muck and peat.
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LOS ANGELES -- When the City Council of America's second-biggest city voted unanimously last month to limit the planting of one species of palm tree, little did it know it would spark a media frenzy that would span the globe. Within weeks, news outlets across the United States and in Latin America,...
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Why do well-meaning laws backfire?