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A sensor detected explosives in a package of sprinkler parts being loaded onto a cruise ship getting ready to depart Monday at the Port of Miami-Dade. Police dogs and a bomb squad soon determined the metal parts were harmless, and passengers evacuated from a Royal Caribbean ship were allowed to reembark. |
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A watchdog group on Monday called for a government investigation into TV and Radio Martí's use of privately owned South Florida media to broadcast anti-Castro programming to Cuba. |
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What started as a potential terrorist plot at Miami-Dade's seaport Sunday morning quickly flubbed into a sobering reminder of the post 9/11 state of fear. |
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In a little over two weeks, Carlos Alvarez will either become Miami-Dade's most powerful mayor or its most impotent. The results of a Jan. 23 referendum to change the structure of county government will not only define crucial powers over hiring and management but also decide whether Alvarez or his opponents on the County Commission will have the political momentum needed to set policy in a massive system that oversees such far-flung issues as affordable housing, police protection and property taxes. |
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Somewhere, a recently retired assistant county manager is smiling like a Cheshire cat. Carlos Bonzon, who worked on the original Metrorail design and construction as a young engineer, always wanted the system to run directly into Miami International Airport. |
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The disc jockey walked into the studio holding a bag. He took out of this a bag, which held another bag, which held a toy locomotive. He put this on the table in front of him. Then he put on a striped engineer's cap and sat in a tatty brown chair. The WLRN building was empty. |
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Every Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the Stephen P. Clark county government building, a group of about 100 homeless people gathers. They're waiting for the members of Project Downtown. When the group members arrive, carrying food and clothes, the crowd descends upon them. |
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An ''intergovernmental summit'' among 25 Miami-Dade municipalities got hot when it came to housing. Specifically, when it came to the lack of accountability in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency's use of discretionary surtax funds for affordable housing. |
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Who's minding the store at the Miami-Dade Democratic Party? Chairman Jimmy Morales announced last month that he was stepping down as soon as an election could be held to replace him. But Vice Chairwoman Bess McElroy says that under the bylaws, she becomes the interim chief until the election. |
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In a little over two weeks, Carlos Alvarez will either become Miami-Dade's most powerful mayor or its most impotent. The results of a Jan. 23 referendum to change the structure of county government will not only define crucial powers over hiring and management but also whether Alvarez or his opponents on the County Commission will have the political momentum needed to set policy in a massive system that oversees such far-flung issues as affordable housing, police protection and property taxes. |
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student group helps Miami's homeless. Every Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the Stephen P. Clark county government building, a group of about 100 homeless people gathers. They're waiting for the members of Project Downtown. |
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Before the investigations, ultimatums and subpoenas, before he was charged with slugging a famous artist and tossed into jail, before his wife rammed his car in a spasm of jealousy, Raul Masvidal was a Miami elder statesman. |
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Debating how to redevelop an Overtown parking lot, Miami city commissioners faced some tough questions: Should the ¾-acre lot be built upon at all? A citizen committee found the lot was well used by drivers in Overtown and recommended leaving it alone. |
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In her early years in Miami, Ira Guevara watched many of her friends and acquaintences suffer the misfortunes that befall so many recently arrived immigrants. One hired an immigration lawyer who turned out to be a fraud. Another bought a used car, only to watch it break down weeks later. Others bought ''health insurance,'' only to find out it was useless. |
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When Florida International University professor Carlos Alvarez and his wife were charged as agents for the Cuban government last year, school officials promised a thorough independent review to determine whether FIU policies had been violated. |
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Minutes into the New Year, the carnage that marked the end of a bloody 2006 in Broward continued with the shooting death of an 18-year-old. |
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A man was killed by an airplane's propeller at Opa-locka Airport on Saturday. The man, whose identity wasn't immediately released, was servicing a private plane that was preparing to taxi for takeoff when he came in contact with the propeller, said Miami-Dade Aviation Authority spokesman Marc Henderson. |
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Debating how to redevelop an Overtown parking lot, Miami city commissioners faced some tough questions: Should the ¾-acre lot be built upon at all? A citizen committee found the lot was well used by drivers in Overtown and recommended leaving it alone. |
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When Florida International University professor Carlos Alvarez and his wife were charged as agents for the Cuban government last year, school officials promised a thorough independent review to determine whether FIU policies had been violated. |
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