FLORIDA DIGEST February 11, 2008

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Miami Herald
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Motorists may soon buy spots on Busway
Is there anything more maddening than idling in gridlock and realizing thatjust a few feet away lie two virgin lanes of asphalt and you can't use them?Such is the plight of up to 100,000 woeful South Florida commuters stuck onthe River of Gas that is U.S. Highway 1 between East Kendall and FloridaCity.
http://www.miamiherald.com/438/story/414360.html
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Overzealous policies create social outcasts
State and local officials have a misguided, narrow-minded approach todealing with sex offenders: banish them from existence. Trouble is, thisapproach doesn't work. People can't be made to disappear, not even convictedsex offenders. Yet elected and public leaders keep trying.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/414426.html
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BUILD NORTH RAIL LINE Make no mistake. The Metrorail North Corridor must bebuilt, and it must be built first -- before ground is broken for theMetrorail East-West Corridor. Twice, now, northwest Miami-Dade residentshave been promised a Metrorail line. . . Now that the U.S. Department ofTransportation has lowered its rating of the North Corridor project,possibly jeopardizing federal funding for the $1.3 billion job, residentsjustifiably are feeling betrayed again
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/412072.html
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GHULAM MURTAZA KAKLI, 72
Muslim leader, interfaith activist in Palm Beach
Ghulam Murtaza Kakli, a Muslim community leader who worked to strengthen thelocal relationship between different faiths and was instrumental in thecreation of a mosque in suburban West Palm Beach, has died. Kakli, afounding member of the Muslim Community of Palm Beach County and itspresident from 1987 to 2004, died Saturday at St. Mary's Medical Center inWest Palm Beach, after being injured Tuesday in an accident at his PalmBeach Gardens home. He was 72.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/414366.html
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Fort Report
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State gaming on a roll
It's shaping up as a breakout year for Florida's growing gambling business.In the past two weeks, the Seminole Tribe of Florida began spinning itsfirst Las Vegas-style slot machines, Miami-Dade voters approved slots at thecounty's dog and horse tracks and jai-alai fronton, and Gov. Charlie Cristproposed an aggressive expansion of the Florida Lottery.
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/11/State/State_gaming_on_a_rol.shtml
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Florida says not so fast on being shut out of convention
WASHINGTON - The future of 22 of Florida's delegates to the DemocraticNational Convention might well depend on the meaning of the word "shall."So says Jon Ausman, the dean of Florida's Democratic National Committeedelegation, who is launching another salvo in the battle between state andnational party leaders over the 210 delegates that the national party yankedafter Florida scheduled its primary early.
http://www.ocala.com/article/20080210/NEWS/802100339/1025/NEWS
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Clash over teaching evolution hits Orlando
State education officials have hearings before voting on science standards.Evolution has been a cornerstone of biology for more than 100 years, butdon't try to tell that to many of the thousands of people who postedcomments on Florida's Department of Education Web site. "The last time Iwent to the zoo, the monkeys weren't evolving into man," read one comment.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-evolution1108feb11,0,2066367.story
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