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'Renewable Energy' Program Spews Out Pollutants

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | March 16, 2005

Florida Power & Light's Sunshine Energy Program isn't as green as promised. Most of the money sent in by well-intentioned customers will not go toward buying energy produced from traditional "clean" sources like solar or wind but from the burning of industrial wood waste and landfill methane.

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Tags: environmentalist, Green Mountain Energy Co., oil company

New Times Broward-Palm Beach

It wasn't long ago that New Times Broward-Palm Beach was just a weekly paper with a website on the side. A weekly paper written by reporters who won boatloads of awards, mind you, including the Livingston Award, multiple Green Eyeshade...

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His Drug Supply Gone, a Smuggler Deals in Informationnew

Longtime drug smuggler Michael Ray Roberts has avoided serious prison time by ratting out his partners. So far.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Eric Alan Barton | 10-25-2005 | Crime & Justice

Tags: Florida, North Carolina, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, boat captain, busted, Caribbean Sea, customs, Edward Dutch Schouten, federal sentencing guidelines, Howard Lawson, Jamaica, Mickey Miles, Mytrle Beach, U.S. Coast Guard, West Palm Beach. Palm Beach County

Faulty Breath-Testing Machines Jeopardize DUI Casesnew

Problems with maintaining Intoxilyzer machines mean thousands of cases against accused drunk drivers could be dropped.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Eric Alan Barton | 09-13-2005 | Crime & Justice

Tags: Laura Barfield, Marcie Lynn Musgrave, who's in charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's breath-testing monitoring

A New Saintnew

Living like a pauper himself, a young man from Florida spends every nickel and dime to save Haiti's children.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Eric Alan Barton | 07-25-2005 | Economy

Tags: poverty, Haiti, orphans

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How a Dangerous New Drug Killed a Florida Teennew

Death of a Boca Raton teen launches an investigation into NBOMe, an LSD-like synthetic drug

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Kyle Swenson | 10-07-2014 | Drugs

A Broken Family System Leads to a Kidnappingnew

Photos of a baby with Confederate flags and guns couldn't persuade a court to prevent a kidnapping.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Kyle Swenson | 08-15-2014 | Features

Tags: Megan Everett, Robert Baumann

Dear New York Times, Alt-Weeklies are Decidedly Not "Over"new

For some reason, media writers in the past couple of years have been throwing shade at alt-weeklies specifically. Are alt-weeklies struggling financially? Yes -- but so is almost every media property in this country that's not funded by a billionaire.

New Times Broward-Palm Beach | Deirdra Funcheon | 03-07-2014 | Media