FLORIDA DIGEST - September 02, 2008

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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Hanna's forecast path closer to South Florida
Ike also forms in Central Atlantic as tropical storm
Suddenly, Hurricane Hanna is breathing down our necks. After quickly strengthening into a Category 1 system near the southern Bahamas on Monday, Hanna was forecast to curve uncomfortably close to South Florida by late Wednesday or Thursday.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/weather/hurricane/sfl-hurricane-hanna,0,5749270.story

-Independent spending invades Broward Democratic primary for first time
Is John Rodstrom too tight with lobbyists? Is Scott Israel perfect to runthe prison camp at Guantanamo Bay? Voters throughout Broward County weredeluged with those claims and others from shadowy special-interest groupsduring the two weeks before the Aug. 26 Democratic primary. The electionmarked the first time massive amounts of independent spending was dumped into local races, and local politicians and consultants predict the landscape of electioneering has been permanently changed.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbcampaign0831sbsep02,0,3906073.story

-Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden to visit West Palm Beach
Democratic vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Joe Biden plans to host a town hall meeting today in West Palm Beach. The program will begin at 6:45 p.m. at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach. Doors open at 5 p.m.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpbidenpnsep02,0,5961951.story

-Oakland Park seeks humane solution to feral cat problem
The city has stopped removing wild cats from city property as it seeks another solution to its feline problem - preferably a humane one. Nine feral cats were euthanized in February after they were trapped at the city's Public Works Operations building, 5100 NE 12th Terrace, according to Lisa Mendheim, spokeswoman for Broward County's Animal Care and Regulation Division. Now, city commissioners want to ensure the remaining cats are kept alive. "I do not want the cats or kittens killed," Commissioner Suzanne Boisvenue said. The city earlier this year had arranged for animal control workers to pick up the trapped cats. The trappings were halted in August, after a City Hall employee sent an e-mail urging commissioners to save the cats. The employee wrote the cats had been crying because they weren't being fed at Public Works, a utility site in an industrial area with plenty of machinery and Dumpsters. Workers had been ordered to stop feeding the cats in hopes they would move to another food source.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbmeowsbsep02,0,4676550,print.story


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Miami Herald
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-Tropics ripe with Hanna, Ike and new depression
We're halfway through the 2008 hurricane season, but the ripe tropics aremaking it seem far from over. Hurricane Hanna and Tropical Storm Ike formedMonday, and a new system, Tropical Depression 10, popped up Tuesday morning.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/668472.html

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