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We will be hosting a live chat on our Facebook page tonight with our top political reporters from 5-7 p.m. Opinions Editor Mike Lafferty will get the chat started and explain why the Orlando Sentinel endorsed Mitt Romney.
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Kolko’s argument hinges on a couple of key points. First, Florida was more or less “ground zero” for America’s housing crisis: at the worst of it, average home prices declined there 40 percent or more off their peak. Second, the state is overrun by foreclosures: it currently has the highest rate of foreclosed loans (14 percent) in the country. That’s double that of Nevada (6.3 percent) and four times higher than Arizona, California, and Michigan. That said, people are starting to buy houses in Florida again. He cites Trulia’s Metro Movers Index, which shows increased house-hunting activity in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, and West Palm Beach. Additionally, prices have increased more than 2 percent in the third quarter of 2011 in West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and several other Florida metros.
Cloudy Miami Sea (by Eric Demarcq)
I am not sure where this was taken, but it reminds me of the beach John and I go to in North Miami. The water is blueish-green, clear and perfect.
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I’m heading to Miami around 3:30 p.m. today. My darling friend Whitney is getting married tomorrow! They are getting married in West Palm Beach, but I am staying in Miami with John for the weekend. We will travel to WPB a few times, but thought staying in a hotel would be silly when his apartment is not that far away. Whit and Kyle live in Los Angeles. Whit is an artist and designer and Kyle is a writer.
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The water in Miami was beautiful this weekend. It was so clear you could see fish swimming around you.
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How budget cutbacks could affect Florida
With hopes dimming that a congressional “super committee” can devise a plan to fix the federal deficit, Florida officials already are bracing for $1.2 trillion in budget cuts that automatically would go into effect if policymakers can’t reach an agreement by year’s end.
