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Government Spending

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Rick Scott's Taxpayer Waste Czar Got $400,00 No-Bid Contract in Taxpayer Money

    Abraham Uccello, the man appointed by Gov. Rick Scott to head a task force to reduce waste in state government, once received a $400,000 no-bid contact from the state to provide "technology consulting." Uccello, by the way, is close friends with Steve MacNamara, Scott's chief of staff.Here's a good ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Florida Republicans' Dilemma: Should They Ban Poor People From Buying Cupcakes?

    ​It's always fun to see different strains of a political ideology rub against each other in conflict, and that's exactly what's happening as a Florida House committee ponders whether or not to limit the kinds of foods that can be bought with food stamps. On one hand you have the part of the Republ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Top Five Fuming Foodies of 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Preposterous

    It's been a hell of a year, folks. We've had a lot of food and food industry-related news this year, and not all of it has been pretty.As a nod to the upcoming year and as a way of reminiscing, I've gone back over my Fuming Foodie archives and amassed a list comprising the five most ridiculous, cont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Ryder, Miami-Based Fortune 500 Company, Paid No Federal Income Tax The Past 3 Years

    Ever wonder what's in the back of all those Ryder trucks?Your tax dollars, apparently.According to a new study by Citizens for Tax Justice, the Miami-based Fortune 500 company paid -7.3 percent federal income tax from 2008-10. That's negative 7.3 percent. Kinda makes you want to torch the nearest mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    Koran-Burning Florida Pastor Terry Jones to Run for President

    ​Terry Jones, the press hungry pastor of a tiny Gainesville church that damn near caused an international incident by promising to host "Burn a Koran" day, has decided he's going to run for president. Because that's exactly what we need: more wackos people running for president! In his press relea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Sleepy Miami Commissioners Pass Budget Deal at 3 a.m., Don't Really Know What's Inside

    ​Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn't know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2011

    Recall Tomas Regalado

    ​Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn't know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted ... More >>

  • News

    July 14, 2011

    Rick Scott's dirtiest deeds

    ​Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn't know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Rick Scott Gets Over His Fear of Trains and Approves SunRail

    ​Gov. Rick Scott has seemed to overcome his hesitations about funding Central Florida's SunRail commuter train program and announced his approval of state funding for the program today. Scott's first big decision in office was surprisingly killing a federally funded high-speed train project, a mov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Listen Up Gov. Rick Scott: On Food Stamps? No Fast Food For You!

    ​I don't think everyone on public assistance is a lazy bum, but I'm happy about the welfare drug-testing bill (the only move Rick Scott has made that I approve of). More importantly, I don't think food stamps should be used to buy fast food. So far, California, Michigan, and Arizona allow the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Rick Scott's Governing Is Straight Out Of Monty Python, Opa-Locka Woman Argues In Lawsuit

    Never, never make Rick Scott laugh.​Gov. Rick Scott's first months running Florida have yielded plenty of gems that would be comedy gold if we didn't actually have to live with them in real life. Drug testing every state employee? To benefit a medical company he co-founded? Didn't we see that one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Rick Scott's Veto Will Leave Poor Seniors in Miami Without Hot Meals

    Yesterday, we ran through many of the local programs that will lose funding thanks to Gov. Rick Scott's record breaking $615 million in vetoes to the state budget. About $40 million of those were cuts to local programs, and one of the most controversial was vetoing $430,298 meant for the hot meals p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Miami's Hardcore Castro Foes Won't be Watching Party Congress

    ​While much of the world will be focusing on Cuba's Communist Party Congress when it kicks off on the island Saturday, one group seems to care less what happens during what is being billed as a turning point for the totalitarian regime. At Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho, ground zero for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Proposed State Amendment Would Deny Funding For Abortions For Rape and Incest Victims

    ​Federal Republicans were forced to back down from a controversial bill dictating that federal money could only be spent on abortions for woman who were "forcibly raped," where as current language allows for some public spending on abortions for woman who are victims of rape or incest. They backed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    John Kerry Wants Federal High-Speed Rail Funds Rick Scott Rejected

    ​There's a reason cash-strapped states don't turn down federally funded projects on ideological grounds: because some other state -- where the residents have tiny lobsters embroidered on their yacht pants, say, and all claim to be the third Affleck brother -- will snatch that money right up for it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Forbes: Miami is the Second Most Miserable City in America

    According to Forbes, the only good things about living in Miami are the weather and the fact we don't have a state income tax. Other than that, apparently Miami is a miserable hellhole. So much so that we're the second most miserable city in America, according to the finance mag's annual rankings.&n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Rick Scott to Abolish Office of Drug Control as Pill Mill Fight Faces Uphill Battle

    ​Cracking down on pill mills was supposed to be one of the state government's biggest triumphs of the year. New legislation taking aim at regulating "pain management" clinics that wantonly prescribe addictive pain medications went into effect in October, but the government has blown several deadli ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    Overtown Farmers' Market

    ​Cracking down on pill mills was supposed to be one of the state government's biggest triumphs of the year. New legislation taking aim at regulating "pain management" clinics that wantonly prescribe addictive pain medications went into effect in October, but the government has blown several deadli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Spineless U.S. Congress Kills Latest Hopes to Close Gitmo

    Back in February, I visited the Guantanamo Bay prison camp during President Obama's inauguration. At the time, it sure seemed like I was witnessing the last days of a ugly chapter in American history. ​Obama's first act as president was an order to close the place. The head of the detention center ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Kendrick Meek Should Be Worried About Dennis Stackhouse

    Alex Izaguirre​ Congressman Kendrick Meek better keep a close eye on what happens to Dennis Stackhouse, the Boston developer who's been criminally charged on multiple counts of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud. Local law enforcement officials accuse Stackhouse of stealing $942,000 set a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    $200K Publicly Funded Bureaucrat to Make the County Green

    ​Facing a $427 million deficit, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez promised he would thin out the county executive offices by 10 percent in his proposed budget. The Herald has written a fair amount about this lately. So have we. What you might not know is that two of them with monster salari ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Kendrick Meek Opposes Using Federal Funds to Pay for Abortions

    Rep. Kendrick Meek has joined a small group of house Democrats asking that any health-care reforms not lead to federal funding of abortion, according to the Washington Post. The possibility of taxpayer money being used to pay for abortions is becoming a hot-button issue in the health-care reform ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    State Stem Cell Funding Ban Upheld

    Last month President Obama repealed the ban on federal funding on stem cell research, but that doesn't necessarily open the door to state funding. Yesterday, the state house voted to keep language in a bill that would bar universities from using state money for embryonic stem cell research 68-46. Th ... More >>

  • News

    October 9, 2008

    Lobbyist Ron Book Tries to Tackle the Housing Crisis

    Maybe he can rent us a room in his $2.2 million pad in Plantation.

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2007

    Weekly News Wrap - Crist, Fidel, Entertainment Scabs and more

    Maybe he can rent us a room in his $2.2 million pad in Plantation.

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2007

    Why Americans Get Their News From Jon Stewart

    Maybe he can rent us a room in his $2.2 million pad in Plantation.

  • City Life

    May 13, 2004

    BEST BAIT AND SWITCH

    People's Transportation Plan

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Notes from the Dead Zone

    The politics of AIDS funding in black Miami

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Less for Moore, Part 2

    The wheels of economic justice in Miami-Dade County are back in motion

  • News

    August 20, 1998

    He Made Dade

    Battling cancer, veteran pol Dante Fascell talks of war, Cuba, and a lifetime of putting Miami on the map

  • News

    October 9, 1997

    First the Homeless, Now the Jobless

    A funding crisis forces Camillus House to issue seventeen pink slips

  • News

    November 14, 1996

    Clinical Depression

    Hounded by budget crises, unflattering audits, and general gripes about management, the Economic Opportunity Family Health Center circles the wagons

  • News

    October 12, 1995

    Pep Talks

    In recovery, out in the field, members of the Partnership to Empower Parents reach out to Miami's drug-dependent mothers

  • News

    May 11, 1995

    To the Rescue, Slowly

    Miami Beach lifeguards are still waiting for the last of their spiffy new Art Deco stands

  • News

    April 6, 1995

    Loudmouths

    In the battle against AIDS, some people say shouting is more effective than talking. And if you don't agree, watch out!

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