Police Powers in Line for Tweak: A Compromise Version of an Ordinance That Would Have Stripped Powers From a Miami-Dade County Police Unit Passed a Critical Vote Thursday
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By Charles Rabin, The Miami Herald  Feb. 16--A significantly watered-down version of a proposed ordinance to strip Miami-Dade Police of powers to investigate corruption at County Hall passed a key committee Thursday after being endorsed by the mayor and police director.
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Community Support Officers are to get detention powers despite mixed findings about their effectiveness.
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By Juan Ortega, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 19--Lauderhill city commissioners will decide this afternoon whether to take legal action to seize land from a car dealership and shopping center in separate parts of the city.
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By Paul Nelson, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 1--ROTTERDAM -- In the end, Vincent Rusch lost big, but he contends Carman Fire District 3 officials broke the law by preventing him and his family from observing the ballots being counted in elections for commissioner in December.
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Florida voters approved this month a three-strikes constitutional amendment unlike any other state&#39;s - an amendment aimed not at killers and thieves but at doctors who foul up.
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MLB COO Bob DuPuy has just issued a press statement in response to last night&#39;s DC council stadium vote. It reads, in full: &quot;The legislation approved by the District of Columbia City Council last night does
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By Jonnelle Marte, The Miami Herald  Feb. 11--Getting all Pinecrest residents hooked into the county water system and improving Pinecrest Gardens are top priorities Mayor Gary Matzner plans to focus on in his annual State of the Village address Tuesday night.
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By WILL SENTELL  First in a series  The management of flood and hurricane protection in southeast Louisiana will undergo sweeping changes if voters approve a ballot measure designed to replace parochialism with a regional approach.
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By Jeffrey Gaunt  jgaunt@@dailyherald.com  The Elgin City Council this week went ahead with a plan to regulate utility facilities on public right-of-ways.
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Sep. 24--In its first meeting in nearly a year, the South Bay Community Council recommended the county reject a proposal to amend its comprehensive development master plan to allow the construction of town homes on 20 acres south of Florida City.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Tens of thousands of recently found ballots in a Florida county are reversing one outcome in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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Assembly members are to vote on whether to give local councils powers to block off alleyways behind streets to help curb crime.
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South Florida is reeling from a spate of attacks on police--the latest on Thursday, when a gunman shot four cops. What itâs like in the stationhouse when the crime victim is one of their own.
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By Conor Reilly, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 3--RICHMOND -- A bill targeting local government's power of eminent domain passed a House subcommittee Friday.   House Joint Resolution 723, sponsored by Dels.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour.   That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 5--Union County has asked a court to uphold its growth-control ordinance in response to a developer's suit challenging its legality.
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By KAREN LEE ZINER  Journal Staff Writer  Question 2 on the November ballot would amend the state Constitution and allow felons to vote after they are released from prison.