"The two top vote-getters, Lucie Tondreau and Kevin Burns, will head to a runoff..."

"The two top vote-getters, Lucie Tondreau and Kevin Burns, will head to a runoff..."

"The city will require two appraisals to determine a home's true value before the property can be sold."

"Why 2 appraisals to sell a house. That sounds expensive almost $1,000. What is wrong with the property appraiser appraisal done for free?"

"Herald was wrong. Two appraisals to buy or sell city property."

"Absentee ballot fraud is a monster of a problem that doesn’t seem to be taken seriously by any of the law enforcement agencies, the Attorney General’s Office, the Miami State Attorney’s Office, the Florida Legislature, the courts, and the various and sundry Elections and Ethics Commissions. The boleteros in Hialeah know this. The ballot brokers in northeast Miami-Dade County know this. They buy elections through absentee ballot fraud with impunity.

Apparently, it’s been left up to investigative reporters, bloggers and ordinary citizens to do whatever they can to protect the integrity of the vote. Without help from authorities, we are left to take up the charge against fraud and corruption. Even when we have evidence and good leads, we get doors slammed in our faces by those public servants who were elected or hired to protect us from the fraudsters.

For now, it appears we are on our own. Folks, you need to keep your eyes and ears open to any and all voter fraud. If you see or hear anything fishy, please contact me or Melissa Sanchez at msanchez@elnuevoherald.com"

"What building a new nuclear plant does really well, the analysis showed, is fatten a utility's bottom line. Duke Energy would pocket as much as 10 times the profit from the Levy project as it would from a natural gas facility." 

Including nuclear in an "all of the above" strategy "has become kind of a last refuge of scoundrels," Bradford said. "If we're talking about world hunger we don't talk about an all of the above strategy. We don't say, 'Lets fight world hunger with caviar.' "

"• She had access to more than 550 voters, the vast majority elderly Hispanics who live in Hialeah. The people whose names, address, phone numbers and dates of birth she tracked on lists titled “Deisy’s Voters” include some who have Alzheimer’s and others who are illiterate. Next to some names, Cabrera noted whether they were blind or deaf.

• She registered what appear to be payments for a total of more than $9,000 from seven judicial candidates in 2008."

California legislative leaders and 10 public employee unions announced opposition Wednesday to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to a pair of wealthy brothers who fund conservative causes. In a letter dated Tuesday to Bruce Karsh, president of Oaktree Capital Management, the largest shareholder in Tribune Co., and chairman of its board of directors, the unions said David and Charles Koch are "anti-labor, anti-environment, anti-public education and anti-immigrant."

William Koch at his West Palm Beach office. Yes, that is the America's Cup in the background.

I’d been in the alternative energy business. We had owned seven power plants, almost all of them except for one was alternative energy. I owned three in Nevada, two in the Phillippines, two in Costa Rica, and I had an investment in a wood-fired power plant in Maine. So we knew the economics of these plants pretty well. I had my staff put together an economic analysis of an offshore wind farm and found out that unless you got a huge government subsidy it wasn’t going to be economical. You’d have to get 25 cents a kilowatt hour when the market in Massachusetts was 7 or something. I looked at it and said this is uneconomical unless you get some real fat contracts or a big government subsidy.

Clean Water Action's Angelique Giraud with Governor Rick Scott at Everglades Coalition Meeting.

• SB 682 defines several ways to reuse toxic coal ash as filler in products like road pavement, agricultural soil, and roofing materials, significantly increasing human and environmental exposure. These uses have not yet been tested for safety with federally approved protocols.
• SB 682 allows coal ash to be used without any reporting to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) so the public won't know when, where, or how much coal ash is being used.
• SB 682 does not require modern testing for the safety of coal ash on human health or the environment.

1. Please provide documentation regarding the "many presentations/solicitations" that Commissioner Bell reviewed prior to her the decision to move forward with this project.

Eddie: - TBD

2. Can you provide a copy of the public notification regarding requests for presentations or solicitations? Where was it posted and for how long?

Eddie: - No request for "presentation or solicitations" was required.

3. Did Commissioner Bell request that this project be named after her mother or was this simply proposed by Mr. Atrio as an inducement for the Commissioner to find his project as the most worthy against the other bidders (style points)?

Eddie: - No to both questions above

4. Where can we view the other presentations?

Eddie: - TBD

5. Do we understand you correctly that the only major string for the $10 million is that the property be used for a mere 25 years as the senior affordable housing, that after that time, I presume Mr. Atrio is unfettered with any obligation as to the $10 million plus and can do as he pleases, free and clear, with the building/property? I assume that the $10 million will pay for construction on a building with a projected minimum life expectancy of 40 to 50 years.

Eddie - Please refer to the agreement which was sent to you earlier by Mrs. Susie Trutie, the County stipulates the terms and conditions of the GOB agreement not the Commissioner.

6. What happens to any surviving residents of the (temporarily) rent controlled facility once the 25 years has passed?

Eddie - Please refer to the agreement which was sent to you earlier by Mrs. Susie Trutie, the County stipulates the terms and conditions of the GOB agreement not the Commissioner.

1. You would need to contact these agencies directly regarding your public records request.  Thank you.

2. The Florida Senate does not possess the documents you are requesting.  We recommend that you please reach out to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity or Enterprise Florida, Inc.  Their contact information is below.  Thank you.

3. The Public Records Coordinator is the department’s contact person for public records/open government.

From: Deleanna Soto:

 Message Body: Dear Mr President, let's be fair The man from the Thrift Store the walking Duck!! He wanted me to Quit, What exactly do we get to Quit ... is there a Price ... ? reason being ... the connection is Drugs ... Carmen was a Good Mother ... I keep hearing ... I remember working with a black Girl ... her name was Carmen " Cookie I called her ... I told mark she would be able to be manipulated... Gwen the Man's Wife ... in the store asked her if she had a boy friend ... before this Cookie this black Girl told me her ex husband was a Drug Dealer ... I felt a concerned so I mention it ,  I was told not to worry about it .. she worked fast ... she thought she was working to marry  this man to be his wife ... it all seem's not to make sense but I am no fool I want answers .. this is abuse against me I am not an ending story ... look for findings because my life ain't over ... l so there was another girl named Stacey she said I can not believe I let that man excuse my expression but this is crucial information " Fuck me in the Ass."  you go figure what's Going on It doesn't sound like fun ....  Ha Ha Ha back to you my Friend ....

From: Donna Courtney

Message Body: By now, you have seen the writing on the wall. If you wish to squander whatever capital you have left to seek a second term as the store-bought Governor of Florida, I wish you well. You are not fit to serve the actual people, Rick. Take your lucre, your contacts, your Tea Party fanaticists, your Koch-fueled  philosophy, and your obsessive need to line the pockets of the financially blessed, and get out of our beautiful state of Florida. We despise you. Get lost and stay there.

Fondly,
Donna

"During this legislative session, leaders in Tallahassee are discussing and debating the flawed nuclear cost recovery law that shifts all the financial risk of building reactors to customers. This hurts Florida’s economy, including seniors, families and businesses. Legislation has been offered up in both the House and the Senate.

Now is the time to send a clear message to Tallahassee that Floridians can’t afford to pay now for expensive reactors that likely will never be built! Click here and voice your concerns. Bi-partisan leadership in both the House and Senate has acknowledged that the anti-consumer legislation passed in 2006 has caused serious problems. They are moving in the right direction, but a complete repeal of Florida’s nuclear tax is the only way to clearly ensure protections for consumers.

In addition, consumers deserve to know how much they are being forced to pay up front each month for these risky new reactor proposals. Any legislation that passes must at least include this “truth in billing” concept.

Take action now and write your state senator and representative and Speaker of the House Will Weatherford to tell them it is time to end the flow of money from your pockets to the big power companies."

“In America alone — without the Nazi Holocaust, without the Ku Klux Klan — Planned Parenthood and other abortionists have reduced our black population by more than 25 percent since 1973...”

Rep. Darryl Rouson, a black Democrat from St. Petersburg, said he was insulted by the remarks, and accused Van Zant of using protection of African Americans to advance an antiabortion agenda.

Another African-American Democrat, Rep. Cynthia Stafford of Miami, said the notion that backers of the bill were standing up against discrimination against blacks and women was “a bald-faced lie.”