Florida

By Fred Grimm From The Miami Herald Some might wonder whether his gratitude was worth the $243,000 extracted from campaign accounts for very murky “thank you” campaigns. But that's…
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David Rivera spent more money saying `thank you' to voters than any other Florida lawmaker. Now investigators are examining some of those expenses. By Scott Hiaasen and Patricia Mazzei…
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By Varela   Antonio Maceo once said that the flag had to be carried to every battlefield, and if the standard-bearer fell, someone else had to pick up the flag and keep it flying. In…
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By Alan Farago (aka Gimleteye)  From Eye on Miami  The first test of the GOP pledge to ethics is Miami-Dade's own David Rivera, who possibly will have the shortest tenure in the history…
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By Varela It's not that I have a thing against El Nuevo Herald, but that El Nuevo has a thing against its readers. It humiliates them, mocks them. Screws them, takes advantage of them.…
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Money came from company co-owned by mother and under criminal investigation By Scott Hiaasen From The Miami Herald Incoming congressman David Rivera has admitted receiving $137,000 in…
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By Varela “Álvarez, we who voted for you want you to leave.” That's the message on a placard carried by a Miami Voice PAC activist. That local civil action group is asking for the…
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Al’s Loupe Happy holidays and expect greater improvement from Progreso By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progresoweekly.com With this our last issue of 2010, we’d like to wish all of our…
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By Fred Grimm From The Miami Herald There are places where a title like ``strategic director'' would not seem so ambiguous. In Miami, at least in David Rivera's Miami, ``strategic…
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Old-guard dissidents get a failing grade in USINT critique By Emilio Paz In a cable of almost brutal frankness, the chief of the United States Interests Section in Havana, Jonathan…
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