FLORIDA DIGEST - September 12, 2008

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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~

Wilton Manors: THE DOLPHIN DEMOCRATS INVITES YOU TO STOP BY
COME SEE THE GET OUT THE VOTE CENTER
THE POWER BASE TO ELECT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
SEN. BARACK OBAMA AND SEN. JOE BIDEN
CANDIDATE CONGRESSMAN RON KLEIN
CANDIDATE LINDA BIRD STATE SENATE #25
CANDIDATE CHRIS CHARI-FLORIDA HOUSE #91
CANDIDATE FLORIDA REP. MARTIN KIAR -FLORIDA HOUSE #97
CANDIDATE'S FOR CITY COMMISSION WILTON MANORS
JUSTIN FLIPPEN AND TOM GREEN
WINE , CHEESE, MINGLE- AND MEET AND GREET AT THE GET OUT THE VOTE CENTER
BEFORE YOU START YOUR EVENING, SWING BY, AND SAY HELLO
SATURDAY . THIS SATURDAY 9/13/2008 - 5PM TO 7PM
2040 N DIXIE HIGHWAY #B -WILTON MANORS


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GLCC JOB POSTING FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER
Customer Service Manager
Salary Range: $33,000 to $38,000
Must Apply to: Janet Vargas, Business Mgr, jvargas@glccsf.org
Deadline: September 16, 2008
The Customer Service Manager (CSM) ensures consistently high quality servicefor GLCC visitors, callers and customers. The CSM recruits and organizes inareas including: reception/switchboard, events, administration andprograms-- providing training, motivation, reinforcement, support,supervision and accountability. The SCM ensures the effectiveness of theGLCC's reception/switchboard function. The CSM is responsible for providinglogistical, financial and administrative support to advance the developmenteffort for the GLCC. The CSM will assist in the process to create andimplement fundraising strategies that increase the organization's supportfrom individuals, corporations, foundations and other sources, with aspecial emphasis on developing individual donors.


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Mark's List
Mark's List brings you our weekend bar and club guide on one nice neat page.
If you prefer to look at what's going on in specific clubs or events, pleaseuse the links below. To read our party guide, please click on the followinglink or copy and paste it into your browser:
http://jumponmarkslist.com/MSFL/friday/2007/021607.htm


~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~

Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Everglades restoration may shift past mill and ethanol plant for jobs
Ethanol plant, sugar mill, land swaps discussed
Restoring the missing link between Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades couldmean re-engineering the River of Grass to bypass a sugar mill and a new U.S.Sugar ethanol plant, water managers revealed Thursday. Once the path issettled, construction could stretch over 20 years to build the new system ofreservoirs and water treatment areas to restore flows between the lake andthe Everglades, according to the South Florida Water Management District.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-flpsugardeal0912sbsep12,0,4245223.story

-Engineers hope sea pit will save beaches
A 49-foot pit would be blasted into the ocean floor next to Port Evergladesas a key part of a $20 million plan to save southern Broward County'seroding beaches.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbsand0911sbsep12,0,6540133.story

-Palm Beach County's missing ballots appear to be found
Despite rumors, the ballots hadn't been mistakenly dumped in a landfill orleft behind at voting precincts. Rather, they were found in the county'svote-tabulating center near West Palm Beach. "The ballots were found in thisroom, not in garbage bags, not in the trunks of cars," lead investigatorBrad Merriman, an assistant county administrator, told reporters Thursday.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpballot0912sbsep12,0,4025597.story


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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-Rudy Crew moves on
With its quick settlement of a buyout package for Superintendent Rudy Crew,a Miami-Dade School Board majority coalesced for the good of the district.They are to be commended.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/683237.html

-Save Florida beaches from drilling frenzy
The latest news from the oil-drilling front is good and bad: The bad news isthat Democrats have been bullied into drafting a bill that allows gas andoil drilling 100 miles off the U.S. coastline. Some Atlantic Coast statescould vote to bring the drilling closer, within 50 miles of their ownshorelines. The good news is that the proposal would honor a 2006 compromisethat gives Florida's coastline at least a 125-mile buffer in the Gulf ofMexico.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/683235.html


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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Republican district turns Dem
A little-noticed number in the latest voter-registration figures from thePalm Beach County elections office could have big implications in 2010. Thelatest report shows that county commission District 4, held by RepublicanMary McCarty since 1990, now has slightly more Democratic voters thanRepublicans. That means Dems now outnumber GOP voters in six of sevencommission districts.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/floridapolitics/entries/2008/09/10/republican_district_turns_dem.html?cxntfid=blogs_q_florida_politics

-Progress, FPL nuclear plans carry big costs
Looking to generate more electricity and combat global warming, Florida isbanking on nuclear power in the future. But it won't come cheap. Stateregulators held a hearing Thursday about how much money customers ofProgress Energy Florida and Florida Power & Light will have to pay next yearfor the initial phases of building the state's first new nuclear plantssince the 1980s.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD01STAT091208.htm

-Ethanol plant touted as way to ease Glades job losses
Even as the state tries to buy U.S. Sugar Corp. for $1.75 billion to restorethe Everglades, separate negotiations could lead to an additional use forthe farming giant's property: a large ethanol plant. People involved in thestate's buyout effort said Thursday that the two proposals could worktogether.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/09/11/0911sugar.html

-Fla. delegation shields gulf area in energy bill
Pressure from Florida's House delegation helped keep the eastern Gulf ofMexico off limits for oil drilling in a new Democratic proposal, memberssaid Thursday. Florida Democrats had become nervous as their party'sleadership looked to counter Republicans' push for more domestic drillingwith a proposal of their own, said Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2008/09/11/a12a_oil_0912.html

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