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Conexión Miami / PortMiami Tunnel is inaugurated
Four years of work and about $1 billion -- a bargain -- is the cost of the tunnel between Watson and Dodge Islands, through which highway traffic can reach the Port of Miami nonstop.
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Charlie Crist will go to Cuba
Our crystal ball is clear when it comes to Cuba, the Fanjuls and Charlie Crist. And it's all about the benjamins. At a recent fundraiser, Crist raised more than $400,000. The room was…
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Miami: Skyscrapers rise, city sinks
Recent studies carried out by big name think tanks outside Florida have found that, in a nation with breathtaking economic inequality, Miami has one of the biggest chasms between rich…
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Conexión Miami / Raonel and gold fever
From Miami gold thief Raonel Valdez Valhuerdis to Aroldis Chapman and his 100+ mph fastball, and now metal plate in his forehead, and also Marco Rubio's presidential aspirations,…
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Crist: A high-risk diver
Charlie Crist, former Republican governor of Florida, now a Democratic candidate to that post, makes a high-risk, high-altitude dive when he states that the United States' policy toward…
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More Miami Herald propaganda to smear Cuba
What the Herald is trying to do is not so subtly smear Cuba by placing the thought in the readers' mind that Medicare fraudsters in this country run off to fraudster paradise, in this…
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Joe Biden talks to the immigrants
Joe Biden is a nice guy. He has the smile of an actor, Paul Newman-style, the easy and flowing gab of his Irish ancestors and the warm voice of a well-trained announcer. It was people…
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The impecunious politician: A vanishing breed
An urban legend with a splash of Hollywood glitter tells us that anyone with enough ambition, discipline and effort can rise to Congress or the White House. The truth is that, other…
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Conexión Miami / A newspaper’s fantasies
Miami's Diario Las Americas wants its readers to believe that someone who has fled to Cuba running from charges of Medicare fraud, and who has not been returned by the Cuban…
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Group pressure
In South Florida, hard-working men have their barbecues -- or "barbikiús," as they call them. I was at one of them, trying to mix with the locals with a chunk of meat in one hand and a…
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