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Ferre can win by tackling the Cuba issue
Al’s Loupe
Ferre can win by tackling the Cuba issue
By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net
After a brief stint in the Florida legislature, Maurice Ferre became mayor of…
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Taking the $$$ and not running
In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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Marazul Informa
Today we begin a new chapter in the 30-year history of Marazul, which was founded in 1979. We are the professionals for everything related to Cuba travel.
With this new column our goal…
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Kendrick Meek will take the money and NOT run
Al’s Loupe
Kendrick Meek will take the money and NOT run
By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net
Even the supposed good guys have dirt under their fingernails here in…
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Still not stimulated — if you’re not first you’re last
By Gihan Perera
From Huffington Post
It’s always great to be the best at something, isn’t it? Florida recently got spanked for coming last in spending federal stimulus dollars on…
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Brief and to the point
By Francisco Aruca
The title atop this truly brief written piece should have been attached to today’s first column, as announced in last week’s issue of Progreso Weekly. Regrettably, I…
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This bubble is not latex but stainless steel’
By Gimleteye
Taken from the Eye on Miami blog
"It's Lonely in Condo Land", an editorial in Miami Herald, expresses a point of view that the paper blocked during the building boom.…
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Cuban vs. Cuban: Community clashes over Juanes concert
Miami's Cuban community divided over Juanes' Havana Concert for Peace
By Carlos Miller
Taken from NBC News - Miami
The pro-Juanes Cubans had the bigger flags. They also had the numbers.…
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FPL reactors will destroy Miami water supply
By Philip Stoddard
(Editor’s Note: This is a letter taken from the Letters section of a recent Miami Herald. Over the past few weeks Progreso Weekly has written about Florida Power…
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Covert memories from Miami
By Saul Landau
In Miami, several retired U.S. officials remembered the early 1960s, when the CIA sent hundreds of employees to join other government bureaucrats to process and recruit…
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