Florida

About one-third of Miami-Dade libraries will be closed in a county with almost 2.5 million people and which were visited by 8 million people last year. And what's the county…
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Half of Florida supports Stand Your Ground, 43% want it changed or repealed. But neither the majority of Floridians who support it nor the Stand Your Ground that a massive minority…
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Leonardo Padura and Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera at bat. Progreso Weekly publishes reflections of two great Cubans, both fans of baseball and Cuba. They express views about the game that…
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Alejandro Cantón, president of Somos Cuba , the Florida agency that promotes the match, told Progreso Weekly in an exclusive interview that the games will take place "even if it's in a…
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"It's hard to believe we are still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jammed TV signal – that fewer than 1 percent of Cubans can see..." says Sen. Jeff Flake.
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Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, the Cuban comic who reduced a common expletive used often by Cubans to a simple ño!!, died in Miami at the age of 86.
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In today's Miami, the chairman of the City Commission, Marc Sarnoff, proposes jailing homeless people so they won't disturb "the public order." Local officials want to eliminate any…
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A thoughtful and balanced piece on the Trayvon Martin tragedy. The article was initially written for the Miami blog Let's Talk About It. And as Kateel emphasizes, "losing faith in a…
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Florida International University (FIU) backed off its decision to host a dream clash between veteran Industriales from both shores, Aug. 10-11, and left Somos Cuba Entertainment Group,…
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A baseball game featuring former players from the Industriales, Cuba’s version of the Yankees, was suddenly cancelled this week. FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg refuses to address the…
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