Lobbyists Close $7.2 Million Deal: A Team of Lobbyists Helped Overcome Resistance From the State to Collect $7.2 Million for Submerged Lots in Biscayne Bay
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By Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald  Mar. 13--They had a contract to buy the Biscayne Bay bottom and a deal to sell it to the state. They were one step away from $7.2 million.
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By AMY WOLD  When a federal coastal restoration task force meets in January, it will consider spending $34 million to build two restoration projects in the coming year.  A project in Jefferson Parish and one in St.
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MIAMI - By the time spear fisherman Ignacio Siberio realized his boat had drifted away in the chilly waters off the Florida Keys, it was too late to signal for help.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--GAUTIER -- City personnel are seeking grant money to fund an environmental court that would help enforce Gautier's laws on property care and cleanup.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald  Jun. 16--By location alone, Biscayne Landing seems a developer's dream.   Nearly 200 open, bayside acres. Sweeping ocean views. State park on one side, university campus on the other.
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The city of Berkeley last week took aim at Marine recruiters, saying they're "not welcome in our city" and encouraging protesters to impede their work. GOP lawmakers in Washington have fired back, threatening to take $2 million back from the city.
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An algae bloom that has fouled waters off the Florida Keys has moved into Biscayne Bay.  Brian Gwilliams, a fishing guide, told the Miami Herald he has seen the algae in the southern part of the bay.  One weekend, I was in Midnight Pass and it was crystal clear, he said.
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Congressional negotiators closed a  controversial tax loophole on Wednesday that allowed small  business owners to write-off the full cost of the biggest and  most expensive sport utility vehicles.
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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 AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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By Charles Rabin and Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Sep. 11--Picture it: shimmering European handcrafted yachts, hundreds of feet long, docked on Biscayne Bay. The wealthy being served drinks with little umbrellas. Children playing on oversized decks.
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Four lucky states were slated to share billions in potential royalties courtesy of an offshore drilling expansion signed into law last year, money that could help reverse decades of environmental damage from coastal industry. But as budget planning gets under way, the states are beginning to realize that Congress gave them far more freedom in spending the windfall than the political rhetoric in Washington suggested.
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By MICHAEL P. McKINNEY  Journal Staff Writer  BARRINGTON   -   Members of the Rhode Island Country Club have voted to sell 12-plus acres to the Barrington Land Conservation Trust for $2 million on the recommendation of the club's Board of Governors.   Stephen J.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 10--Lenders who foreclose on contaminated properties would have to disclose hazards to buyers under a bill being considered in the Legislature.  "This is just huge moral issue in my view," said state Sen. Karen Fraser, D-Olympia.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Dec. 18--The state has pulled the plug on a plan to dump more than 18,000 tons of excavated muck from the 18 Mile Stretch widening project into ocean-side rock pits at a North Key Largo park.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.