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Ten Best Chicken and Waffles in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

The saying goes, "Don't judge a book by its cover." When it comes to food that idea should remain the same -- unless, you're in danger of food poisoning obviously. Some of the best dishes are comprised of the weirdest mix of food items: croissant/doughnut hybrids, arepa-burgers, breakfast pizza, you...
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Brush Fire Puts Smoky Haze Over South Florida

South Florida looks a lot like a Renaissance painting today. The skyline and the cityscape bleed into each other with the most minuscule of brush strokes. But no, an imaginary Leonardo did not restyle South Florida to look like the Mona Lisa. What you're seeing is not sfumato; it's smoke...
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Sea Level Rise: Will Cities Be Held Liable for Failure to Plan?

"Apres moi le deluge," Madame de Pompadour supposedly said, shortly before the people of France rose up and removed her head: "After me, the flood." See also: - WPB Sea Level Rise Symposium Keynoter: "There Will Be Catastrophe" South Florida's coastal cities are beginning to say the same. But one...
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GOP Failure to Expand Medicaid to Cost Florida Business Millions, Study Finds

We've already written about how, according to a recent study, the Florida Legislature's failure to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 1.27 million low-income Floridians will result in as many as six otherwise avoidable deaths a day in the Sunshine State. Now we've come across another study about the consequences...
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Floridians Trust Scientists More Than Marco Rubio on Climate Change

It looks like Floridians would rather have all the scientists run for president than Marco Rubio, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released last week. After the White House released the findings from the National Climate Assessment last month that said climate change was man-made and that Florida was...
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South Florida Bikers Sliced and Diced by Unsafe Drawbridges

Biking in South Florida is dangerous. Given what we see in the news cycle on an almost daily basis down here, that can be said flatly. Hell, last year cyclists riding down the Rickenbacker Causeway were shot in the leg and back by teenagers armed with BB-Guns. So, after a...
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Fsik Huvnx or David Brieske: the Visual Side of Musicians

Sometimes it's hard to explain to outsiders just how rich and deep culture truly runs in South Florida. Blame it on Miami Vice or the excesses of ruinous Fort Lauderdale Spring Break youth behavior. It's just not easy to break the stereotypes. At least we locals can take some comfort...
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All Aboard Florida Unveils West Palm Beach Station Plans

All Aboard Florida -- the passenger rail service promising train stops from Miami to West Palm Beach in 2016 -- announced design plans for its West Palm Beach station earlier today. This marks the final station unveiling, after Miami's and Fort Lauderdale's were released earlier this year. The Palm Beach...
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Support Palm Beach Zoo at Off the Hookah Fundraiser July 3

The Off the Hookah family of restaurants has always stood out a little bit among their peers for being quick and agreeable when it comes to fundraising and partnering with locals for good causes. This week, the Clematis location will be celebrating its fourth year of operation as well as...
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Fracking the Everglades: Enviros Claim State Deception on Water Quality

Citizen activists opposed to oil drilling in the Everglades claim the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued a "bogus" clean bill of health for Texas oil company Dan A. Hughes' acid fracking operation in Collier County. See also: Dropping Acid in the Everglades: Fracking War Drags On in Collier...
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Florida Somehow the Least Pill-Poppin’ State in the South

There's a classic episode of Current TV's Vanguard that takes place in Florida. "Oxycontin Express" took reporter Mariana van Zeller to Broward, where she talked to pill addicts and the people who travel here from out of state to purchase drugs and traffic them elsewhere. It's so good! It won...
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Palm Beach County Students Best in Florida in Test Performance

Last time we checked up on Palm Beach County students, things weren't looking too hot. The county's school system saw a dip in its overall grades, according to the Florida Department of Education's annual school grades. Two schools got D's and two schools received F grades in Palm Beach. But...