Mavericks charter schools don't live up to big promises Before the songs, chanting, and heartfelt tears, the ceremony next door to a strip mall begins with speeches. A thin, deeply tanned man in a... More >>
Miami's top news stories of 2011 It's July 2010, one of those beautiful Miami nights that make you want to don white linen and stunna shades, buy an eightball from a guy named... More >>
Insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities The summer sun glints off the Caribbean as the Majesty of the Seas, a luxurious 12-deck ship with nine bars and a topside pool, docks at a... More >>
Home-built aircraft thrill and kill Fifteen hundred feet above Miami, the tiny plane shakes like the last leaf on a dying tree. Below, the suburbs of Kendall and Pinecrest stretch... More >>
Russian billionaires battle for Fisher Island Two middle-aged men sat at a corner table inside Nobu, London's hippest Japanese restaurant. One of them was slightly bent-over and heavy-browed,... More >>
A Guide to Trashing Taxpayers Miami is a great place to throw away public money. This is spectacularly apparent to the 108,500 folks on the Dolphin Expressway who pass the new... More >>
Lost Boys: New child-sex-trafficking research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker Life is life, and you gotta do what you gotta do. It's like everybody can't be a doctor, a teacher, or have rich parents take care of us. And... More >>
If there is not a tsunami of underage prostitutes in America, that is not to say there are no children trapped in this world. Of course there... More >>
Erislandy Lara: Robbed in a boxing scandal, he's coming back In the 12th round, the clock ticks below 90 seconds. Erislandy Lara squints through his left eye, just a purplish slit beneath the softball-size... More >>
Ave Maria University: A Catholic project gone wrong Marielena Stuart stood in the middle of a quiet street, 120 miles across the swamp from Miami, and stared down the black plastic barrel of a news... More >>
