Florida

The "establishment" of the Republican Party is going nuts. Donald Trump is leading a hostile takeover of their party and they don't know what do to about it.
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There's a battle brewing between the Florida House and Senate over how to use the $1 billion budget surplus. Then there's Gov. Rick Scott who wants to dole it out as tax breaks to rich…
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Miami is the metropolitan area with the highest level of economic inequality in a nation that leads the developed nations in inequality. You would then imagine that all money available…
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Earlier this year, the Florida legislature approved and Gov. Rick Scott signed a new water law that wiped out a longstanding January 2015 deadline that mandated a radical reduction in…
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There is almost no end to the adjectives that could be used to describe the January 13 death in Miami of thirty-eight-year old Maria Huaman. Untimely. Tragic. Unnecessary.…
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In an age of climate change deniers, corporate welfare facilitating government riches for the one-percenters while our taxes are raised to pay for them, and lobbyists that assure the…
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When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law,…
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In Miami, you get so used to reading about buildings that have stood for decades biting the dust to make way for our local deity — Development. The Church by the Sea has stood for…
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Outward perfection should not overpower the spiritual content of this joyful season. When one is far from his loved ones, one realizes that, of all the possible gifts, a love-filled hug…
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The Florida legislature instantly qualified for the hottest ring of hell when in 2011 it passed a law that transformed the state’s Children’s Medical Services program from one based on…
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