WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Florida's population growth rate dropped by more than one-third last year, according to new numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau. MiamiHerald.com posts an Associated Press story with the details: According to figures released Thursday, the state's population increased by 1.1 percent to 18.3 million. Over the previous 12-month period, the growth rate was 1.8 percent. Looking the other way... The Orlando Sentinel credits John Dunbar at AP for its version, whic... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Florida's population growth rate dropped by more than one-third last year, according to new numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau. MiamiHerald.com posts an Associated Press story with the details: According to figures released Thursday, the state's population increased by 1.1 percent to 18.3 million. Over the previous 12-month period, the growth rate was 1.8 percent. Looking the other way... The Orlando Sentinel credits John Dunbar at AP for its version, whic... Read Full Story

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- Trailer park residents evicted in 2005 to make way for condos that were never built in Holly Hill, south of Daytona Beach, may number among Florida's homeless or the future homeless, according to Jaimie Ross, Affordable Housing Director at 1000 Friends of Florida in Tallahassee. Jim Haug at news-journalonline.com in Daytona Beach reported the story: Mike Austin's monthly rent has more than doubled since he was forced out of a trailer park two years ago by a new... Read Full Story

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. --- Trailer park residents evicted in 2005 to make way for condos that were never built in Holly Hill, south of Daytona Beach, may number among Florida's homeless or the future homeless, according to Jaimie Ross, Affordable Housing Director at 1000 Friends of Florida in Tallahassee. Jim Haug at news-journalonline.com in Daytona Beach reported the story: Mike Austin's monthly rent has more than doubled since he was forced out of a trailer park two years ago by a new... Read Full Story

BOCA RATON, Fla. --- Luis F. Perez at (South Florida) Sun-Sentinel.com reported yesterday that Boca Raton city council passed 4-1 a workforce housing ordinance that won't be effective until the housing market picks up again but has enough loopholes to to be ineffective anyway. Boca Raton mayor Steven Abrams, left, cast the lone dissenting vote with an ominous threat: ...Abrams warned that the city's new work-force housing law could result in 19 apartment complexes going up next to the... Read Full Story

BOCA RATON, Fla. --- Luis F. Perez at (South Florida) Sun-Sentinel.com reported yesterday that Boca Raton city council passed 4-1 a workforce housing ordinance that won't be effective until the housing market picks up again but has enough loopholes to to be ineffective anyway. Boca Raton mayor Steven Abrams, left, cast the lone dissenting vote with an ominous threat: ...Abrams warned that the city's new work-force housing law could result in 19 apartment complexes going up next to the... Read Full Story

NEW YORK, N.Y. ---Morgan Stanley issued a report last week entitled, "Recession Coming." Its author, Richard B. Berner, left, MS managing director and chief U.S. economist, has a thick portfolio of blueblood formers: he was EVP and chief economist at Mellon Bank, director and senior economist at Salomon Bros., economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, director of the Washington, DC, office of Wharton Econometrics, economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Ambros... Read Full Story

NEW YORK, N.Y. ---Morgan Stanley issued a report last week entitled, "Recession Coming." Its author, Richard B. Berner, left, MS managing director and chief U.S. economist, has a thick portfolio of blueblood formers: he was EVP and chief economist at Mellon Bank, director and senior economist at Salomon Bros., economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, director of the Washington, DC, office of Wharton Econometrics, economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Ambros... Read Full Story

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ---1000 Friends of Florida will conduct a live online discussion Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. The topic is one of the most important in Florida: Toward a Regional Framework: A Transportation/Land Use Dialogue Unless you've already registered, you won't be able to participate. The online symposium "has reached capacity and no additional registrations are being accepted," according to the group's web site. Internet users can access the webcast by logging on at ... Read Full Story

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ---1000 Friends of Florida will conduct a live online discussion Friday, Dec. 14, 2007. The topic is one of the most important in Florida: Toward a Regional Framework: A Transportation/Land Use Dialogue Unless you've already registered, you won't be able to participate. The online symposium "has reached capacity and no additional registrations are being accepted," according to the group's web site. Internet users can access the webcast by logging on at... Read Full Story