"Drones are fine to kill terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but they shouldn’t be hovering in the sky, monitoring Floridians--that’s not something we believe is an appropriate role for government," says Sen. Joe Negron.
The show, Saratopia, fits into a broader vision of evolving Sarasota from a beautiful beach community for old folks and tourists into a place where young creative types will actually want to stay, live, and start companies.
A pharmacy run out of this storefront near Miami billed a federal agency for
$776,298--in just nine days. There were no real employees. There were no real patients. There were no real prescriptions. How medical fraud has become an untreated epidemic.
Florida panthers (not the football team) are back, which brings inevitable interaction with humans. But unlike in Yellowstone, where new wolves caused an outcry, Florida's smooth reintroduction might become a model for other predator populations.
The trial of the 25-year-old just cleared of murder charges was this generation's OJ drama. Only this time, the regular market of questionably tasteless T-shirts and tchotchkes was flooded with apps, tweets, streams, and SMS alert services.
Just as the Internet replaced telephone operators and the nightly news anchor as the default source of information, teachers may be next on the chopping block. Automated learning is a cheap solution to recession-swelling class sizes and renewed calls to make technological innovation a centerpiece of education.
Can we save the oceans with strategic dieting? Conservationists in Palm Beach think so -- they're encouraging locals to chomp down on an invasive species of lionfish.
