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Larry Barszewski

@lbarszewski

Enjoying a career breather after 31 years at the South Florida Sun Sentinel; former staff writer, homepage editor, copy editor and page designer.

 Broward County, Florida
Joined January 2011
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Does @MSNBC @maddow @MaddowBlog realize they may have video of woman being shot at U.S. Capitol? Woman seen trying to go through entry at top right of video, then sounds like there's a gunshot and woman immediately falls backward, injured. facebook.com/1392188061/vide…
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Pipe breaks still haunting Fort Lauderdale. This time it’s a water main. sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Pipe breaks still haunting Fort Lauderdale. This time it’s a water main.

Pipe breaks still haunting Fort Lauderdale. This time it’s a water main.

Residents in two Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods are being told to boil their tap water after yet another pipe break. It’s the latest one to haunt Fort Lauderdale, a city scrambling to fix a crumbling...

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Wow. Just wow. No words. Crews investigating water main break in Fort Lauderdale sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
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Built-up Broward has few tracts of open land remaining. These are the largest. trib.al/319k7A3
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Dan Sweeney@Daniel_Sweeney30 Jan 2020
The @SunSentinel's @lbarszewski wrote about @Surfrider testing water and finding high bacteria levels in this area a week ago -- now, there's a break. @FTLCityNews should say whether main was leaking, whether sewage from other breaks flowed there, or what. sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Dangerous levels of fecal waste in some Fort Lauderdale waterways, testers say

Dangerous levels of fecal waste in some Fort Lauderdale waterways, testers say

Some Fort Lauderdale waterways may not be as safe as city officials would like you to think. The city warned people against jet-skiing, paddle-boarding, kayaking and other water-related activities in...

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Replying to @Daniel_Sweeney
Another day, another spill: this time, right where 954 Paddle Crew and Surfrider Foundation warned of unsafe waters a month ago. No action was taken by the city to close the waters to recreational use or investigate why their was high bacteria counts. change.org/p/fort-lauderdale…
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Save Fort Lauderdale: Fix our Infrastructure and Protect our Waters

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Another day, another sewage episode in Fort Lauderdale. Here's the latest. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
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Elected mayor plan could cost Broward taxpayers more than $500,000 a year sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…

Electing a mayor could cost taxpayers more than $500,000 a year

Broward voters could be faced with a pricey question in November: Do they want a say in who the county’s mayor will be? The idea of an elected mayor has been kicked around in the county for more than...

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Florida lawmakers want to fine cities more for sewage spills, such as the one that fouled Fort Lauderdale’s waters trib.al/wOvgQkS
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Susannah Bryan@Susannah_Bryan28 Jan 2020
Earthquake near Jamaica shakes Miami high-rises; residents and office workers evacuated sun-sentinel.com/local/fl-ne…
Powerful earthquake near Jamaica and Cuba jolts South Florida — and there’s a chance of aftershocks

Powerful earthquake near Jamaica and Cuba jolts South Florida — and there’s a chance of aftershocks

It didn’t appear to cause any deaths or major damage, but the powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday had people in a panic from Mexico all the way to Florida....

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Dangerous levels of fecal waste in some Fort Lauderdale waterways, testers say sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Dangerous levels of fecal waste in some Fort Lauderdale waterways, testers say

Dangerous levels of fecal waste in some Fort Lauderdale waterways, testers say

Some Fort Lauderdale waterways may not be as safe as city officials would like you to think. The city warned people against jet-skiing, paddle-boarding, kayaking and other water-related activities in...

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Cops waiting for Antonio Brown to turn himself in sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Ex-NFL player Antonio Brown is released from jail on $110,000 bond

Ex-NFL player Antonio Brown is released from jail on $110,000 bond

Hours after surrendering to authorities and being booked into jail, former NFL star Antonio Brown appeared in front of a Broward judge, and by shortly after noon Friday he was released on $110,000...

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Susannah Bryan@Susannah_Bryan19 Jan 2020
How much did all those sewer pipe breaks cost ⁦@FTLCityNews⁩? Initial estimate is around $14.2 million. sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Fort Lauderdale has plan to keep sewage out of streets. It’s just going to take a while.

Fort Lauderdale has plan to keep sewage out of streets. It’s just going to take a while.

After a series of epic sewage spills, Fort Lauderdale residents are braced for the next one — it’s just a question of when and where. The monster sewer main that ruptured on Dec. 10 triggered a web...

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Fort Lauderdale has plan to keep sewage out of streets. It’s just going to take a while. sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Fort Lauderdale has plan to keep sewage out of streets. It’s just going to take a while.

Fort Lauderdale has plan to keep sewage out of streets. It’s just going to take a while.

After a series of epic sewage spills, Fort Lauderdale residents are braced for the next one — it’s just a question of when and where. The monster sewer main that ruptured on Dec. 10 triggered a web...

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Broward’s airport gun rules violate state law, judge decides sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…

Broward’s airport gun rules violate state law, judge decides

Properly permitted gun owners have a right to bring their weapons to the airport and Broward County’s attempts to say otherwise violate state law, a circuit judge has ruled. Florida Carry, a nonpro...

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Julie Anderson@Juliea71215 Jan 2020
Florida buys Everglades land to prevent oil drilling sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
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Susannah Bryan@Susannah_Bryan8 Jan 2020
Now that's a headline that'll turn heads: Fed up with poopy pipe breaks, Lauderdale says yes to $65M sewer fix sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
Fed up with poopy pipe breaks, Lauderdale says yes to $65M sewer fix

Fed up with poopy pipe breaks, Lauderdale says yes to $65M sewer fix

It’s a granddaddy of a pipe, a vintage 54-inch sewer main with a line that runs 7.5 miles underground across the city. But that aging cast-iron pipe, funneling sewage since 1973, is at the end of its...

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Fort Lauderdale reveals amount of sewage spilled in December: 126.9 million gallons sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
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Scott Travis@smtravis30 Dec 2019
Anguished, armed and impulsive: A deadly mix fuels rising teen suicides | Sun Sentinel projects.sun-sentinel.com/te…
Anguished, armed and impulsive: A deadly mix fuels rising teen suicides

Anguished, armed and impulsive: A deadly mix fuels rising teen suicides

Heartbreaking decisions by troubled teenagers have led to a 44 percent increase in youth suicides in Florida in the last decade. But even as the rate climbs, one taboo topic remains cloaked in...

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After six sewer breaks in three weeks, Fort Lauderdale is at ‘tipping point’ sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…

After six sewer breaks in three weeks, Fort Lauderdale is at ‘tipping point’

The sewage stopped flowing from two Fort Lauderdale pipes that broke Monday, but the city’s sewage crisis shows no sign of letting up. Residents and officials are growing weary of improvement plans...

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This time it’s two: More sewer pipes break in Fort Lauderdale sun-sentinel.com/local/browa…
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