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Fla. high court upholds nuclear-power surcharge law
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Supreme Court rejected on Thursday the challenge to a controversial law that allows electric utilities to collect money from their customers for nuclear-power plants that won't be built for years — if ever. The...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Judges, Plant Openings, Duke Energy Corporation, Miami-Dade County
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Letters to the Editor: Higher standards for design, nuclear energy
Higher standards for design Thanks to Sentinel columnist Beth Kassab for the exposure to poor designs on big-box stores ("Cities don't have to settle for ugly stores," Thursday). She is so right that they are a blight on any neighborhood. A dollar...
Tags: Periodicals, Crime, Law and Justice, Architecture, Plant Openings, Arts and Culture
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Push to end NC's renewable energy program dies in committee
The News & ObserverThe push to terminate North Carolina's renewables program is over for the foreseeable future after a House committee in the state legislature defeated the measure with the help of key Republicans. The vote in Raleigh was closely watched by national...Tags: Republican Party, Voting, Environmental Issues, Politics, Energy Saving
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Panel asks state to consider additional bridge site
Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.Despite some confusion Wednesday, the Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization's Transportation Advisory Committee passed a resolution encouraging the state to take a look at a different location for another crossing of the Cape Fear River....Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Politics, URS Corporation
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Records show overlap between campaign cash and legislation
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelInternational Speedway Corp. is trying to win millions of dollars in tax breaks from the Florida Legislature this spring for an expansion of Daytona International Speedway. And the company found a perfect way to show off the racetrack: Free tickets to the... -
Customers are 'dumb money' for utilities
If you're a Progress Energy customer and you've looked yourself in the mirror lately, you're looking at "dumb money." Those aren't my words. That's how an energy policy wonk described customers who get saddled with financial risk when utilities take...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Energy, Judges, Plant Openings, Duke Energy Corporation
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Take Legislature, elections out of PSC process
We're supposed to believe that Florida's system for selecting the people who set our utility rates is fair and free of political meddling. That's a bigger fake-out than Manti Te'o's girlfriend. The Legislature controls the selection of Public...
Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Duke Energy Corporation, Elections, FPL Group
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In secret, Enterprise Florida hears utility-funded report
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE – A new report on Florida’s economic competitiveness recommends that the state beef up Gov. Rick Scott’s ability to lure new corporations with large checks and to also lower standards for the wages these companies would... -
Across Florida, legislative candidates sidestep fundraising caps
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelIt may be the least effective law in Florida. For two decades, Florida has barred candidates for local or state office from accepting more than $500 from a single donor per election. And yet, more than ever this election cycle, candidates for the... -
CFB Top Employers 2012 footnotes
Adventist: Excludes 2,954 per-diem workers; includes Florida Hospital system and several Adventist Care Center nursing homes. Comcast: Universal Orlando resort; excludes local cable-TV operations. Orlando Health: Excludes 1,632 per-diem workers; does...Tags: Universal CityWalk, Melbourne, Health Management Associates Incorporated, Port Orange, Brevard County
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Yes, you can fight City Hall — and win
There's something satisfying about watching somebody decide that they can fight City Hall. Maybe it's the idea that the little guy, if he tries hard enough, does stand a chance against the big-moneyed interests or a stubborn bureaucracy. Or perhaps we're...Tags: Windermere, Pine Hills, Winter Garden, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Reader gets response (but no comfort) from Public Service Commission
Orlando Sentinel ColumnistIn a recent column about the Public Service Commission's soft-ball questioning of the new Progress Energy boss (Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers), I encouraged fuming readers to write to the commission and make their outrage known. After all, it is the Public...Tags: Republican Party, Shareholders, Politics, Electricity Production and Distribution, Duke Energy Corporation
May 2, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Jan 23, 2013
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Oct 25, 2012
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Nov 1, 2012
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Oct 26, 2012
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Sep 5, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Aug 28, 2012
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
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