Sooner or later, one way or another, we pay for the utilities we take for granted – or else the taps run dry.
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A Day Without Water
Tag Archives: Fort Lauderdale
Teaching Mom To Stand Up To Cops
If an officer asks personal questions or seeks permission to search you or your things, just say “no thanks.”
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Housing The Homeless
Bringing people home for the holidays is especially challenging when the people in question have no home.
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Flying While Black
Millions put up with ordinary inconveniences as we travel for Thanksgiving, but African-Americans face hassles others don’t.
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The Political Package-Deal Ploy
Maybe your town needs a better police station, and maybe it needs better parks. Must you pay for one to get the other?
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The Wave Finally Breaks
Fort Lauderdale’s city government reverses itself and dooms an ill-considered streetcar named The Wave.
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Fort Lauderdale’s Crashing Wave
A Florida streetcar known as the Wave may have just crashed on the rocks of financial reality.
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Tragedy In Fort Lauderdale
A mass shooting strikes close to home in a place normally full of high spirits.
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A Slow Track To Nowhere
A streetcar in Fort Lauderdale won’t take you where you want to go, but it will deliver federal dollars. That’s good enough.
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Frequent Flyer Meets Errant Lawman (Again)
Broward Believe It or Not: Detective challenges the same African American traveler he interrogated last year in the same place.
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