By Azadeh Ansari
CNN
July 27, 2009
The answer to easing the energy crunch in one of the nation's most populous states could lie underwater...
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Money pouring in to finance redistricting reform ~ Florida
By Aaron Deslatte
July 22, 2009
Orlando Sentinel
Money is pouring into an effort to address one of the thorniest issues in modern politics: how to curb politicians' power to gerrymander their own political districts.
FairDistrictsFlorida.org wants to place two constitutional amendments on the 2010 ballot that would ban legislators from drawing sprawling, jagged congressional and legislative districts that resemble abstract art and divide communities in order to help or hurt incumbents or political parties...
Monday, July 20, 2009
No more soup: Florida’s turtle fishermen out of a job come Monday
Posted July 18, 2009 at 7:32 p.m. , updated July 20, 2009 at 10:03 a.m.
Naples Daily News
...The ban will prohibit the taking of any freshwater turtles for commercial purposes but will allow one turtle per person, per day, for non-commercial purposes.
Exceptions will be made for licensed turtle farms to take restricted numbers of turtles per day for breeding purposes. Turtle farmers will have to file for a permit, which will be available by Aug. 31.
Turtles on the imperiled species list or that look similar to those on the imperiled species list, including cooters and common snapping turtles may not be taken for any purposes.
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