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A Massachusetts College Is Offering Admission to New College Students
In light of recent events, Hampshire College says it will accept students from New College and charge them the same amount as they do now. In response to recent events at New College of Florida, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, has said it will admit all New College of Florida students in good standing and…
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Man Who Called 911 After Rep. Steube’s Fall To Attend State Of Union
SARASOTA, FL — As he recovers in Florida after a fall at his Sarasota home last month, U.S. Rep. Greg Steube won’t attend Tuesday night’s State of the Union address from President Joe Biden. In his place, he’s sending Darrell Woodie, the man who witnessed his fall from a ladder while trimming trees and called…
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New College Of FL President Fired By Newly Conservative Board
SARASOTA, FL —Gov. Ron DeSantis put six new conservatives on the Board of Trustees of the liberal New College of Florida a few weeks ago. On Tuesday, the board voted to end the contract of the college’s president, Patricia Okker. WFLA reports that the trustees also chose Richard Corcoran, the former speaker of the Florida…
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California buildings still in peril from tumbling cliff
About two dozen people who had to leave their apartments in Southern California because of a falling hill near the ocean were told Thursday that they might have to leave for good. Three clifftop apartment buildings and one nearby building in the coastal city of San Clemente in Orange County were red-tagged and evacuated Wednesday…
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Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian
Environmental groups say that Hurricane Ian could leak or otherwise pollute more than a billion tonnes of polluted waste from Florida’s phosphate fertiliser mining industry. The waste is stored in “stacks” that look like huge ponds. There are 24 of these phosphogypsum stacks in Florida. Most of them are in mining areas in the middle…
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Hurricane Ian Devastates Florida’s West Coast
Many of the resorts on Florida’s West Coast, which are popular with incentive groups, got hit hard by the historic Category 4 storm, which hit land near Cayo Costa, Fla., with sustained winds of 150 mph. At first, the 500-mile-wide storm was hardest on the barrier islands of Sanibel and Captiva, where South Seas Island…
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Florida lawmakers move forward with bill to give property owners lawsuit protections
Lawmakers in Florida are moving forward with a bill that would protect property owners and, in the long run, insurance companies from civil lawsuits. After a three-hour meeting on Tuesday in Tallahassee, the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee gave the bill a thumbs-up by a vote of 8-4. But families of crime victims from all over…
