For the first time Tuesday, Interior Secretary Gale Norton publicly voiced her support of federal property buyouts for Everglades restoration. Norton said the current impasse over property in a controversial area in Miami-Dade County is posing a hurdle to the overall restoration. At issue is a plan to purchase about 100 homes on the western fringe of an area known as the 8 1/2 square-mile area to clear the way for increased water flows into Everglades National Park and, ultimately, into Florida Bay. The increased flows, known as the Modified Waters Delivery project, must occur before many projects in the...