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Miami: Paradise lost – again
Since its inception, the promise of paradise is the story of Miami. Founded in 1896, Miami by the 1920s had already experienced a frenzied real estate boom fueled by that promise…
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Charlie Crist moves closer to 2014 comeback bid
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has lined up a fundraising chief for what increasingly seems like an inevitable gubernatorial comeback bid in 2014.
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Against nature
If the United States is the paradise of civil rights and material prosperity, how could it be that every day thousands and thousands of young people want to escape through drugs?
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BP unmasks itself
Three years ago, oil giant BP created one of the worst environmental catastrophes in history when one of its wells gushed hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.…
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Third flight to Cuba added at Tampa airport
Miami-based ABC Charters said Wednesday it would add a weekly flight between Tampa International Airport and Santa Clara, Cuba, beginning Dec. 4.
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A chicken in diapers
If a multimillionaire at a restaurant orders a chicken with a disposable diaper, I'm sure that it will be served to him without many questions, so long as he pays for the chicken and…
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An extra 47,000 out of work in Miami area thanks to Ileana and Marco
There are an extra 47,000 persons out of work today in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale areas because of the U.S. government shutdown. It has sent as many as 770,000 employees home, delayed…
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‘Let them eat cake,’ say Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart
25% of persons who live in the congressional districts of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart would go hungry if they were not to receive federally subsidized food stamps. But the…
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The American Nightmare
Once upon a time in the United States, a beautiful dream deteriorated until it became a nightmare for those who hoped to have a roof over their heads, the core of the so-called American…
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Can’t live on this minimum wage
Those who cling to the Republican notion that raising wages will in the long run damage the economy spread suspicious statistics and studies that deny the reality we see all around us…
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