TAMPA - Rescue crews are searching for a plane carrying two people that crashed into the Gulf of Mexico Sunday night.
At about 7:45 p.m., an air traffic controller in Jacksonville reported that a twin-engine, fixed-wing aircraft traveling from Tallahassee to Vandenberg Airport in Hillsborough County crashed about 14-miles west of Yankeetown, according to the U.S. […]

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The St. Pete Times consistently publishes the best stories on the environment in the state. Today, the newspaper takes a close look at exploitation of environmental protections by private consulting and engineering firms; citing the example of rock mining in the East Everglades in today’s story. Why won’t The Miami Herald report stories like this, […]

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Hit on image at left to enlarge it.Yes it is a pain in the ass to go to these stupid downtown meetings but the squeaky wheel gets the oil. If you don’t go, your view will be ignored, so at the very least: Submit written comments. You can watch it on TV, all the info […]

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News reports suggest the Mumbai terrorist attacks at last have come to an end. U.S. TV cable news, relying on edited feeds mostly from Indian and British television sources, offered nearly 24 x 7 coverage of a sort.
Still, as it seems to us, the gravity of the incident and the horrific extent of the […]

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Of course. It would be about organized religion. It almost always is, both here and there:
In the Bombay I grew up in, your religion was a personal eccentricity, like a hairstyle. In my school, you were denominated by which cricketer or Bollywood star you worshiped, not which prophet. In today’s Mumbai, things have changed. Hindu […]

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“Art Nasal”, the premiere parody of Miami’s Art Basel art extravaganza is this Tuesday, December 2, at 7:00 pm at the Windisch-Hunt Gallery (2911 Grand Avenue).
Like Art Basel, Art Nasal is all about money. It’s a fund-raiser for the King Mango Strut.
So far, they have raised only $5.00 this year. “We made that last […]

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