LocalFinally, after ten long years, the Marlins will have a new home to lose in! Just kidding. Let's hope now they'll have the decency to build up a World Series-worthy team and then not sell off all of their star talent. [Herald]Patients at the Veterans Hospital might have been exposed to HIV and other diseases because instruments were not properly sterilized. [AP]A historical Egyptian coffin seized last month by Miami customs officials might be headed back to Egypt. [NYTimes]Ummm, painting you
via BravoTV​Last night's Miami Social was all about children: the kind you want but can't have, the kind you find are accidentally going to pop out in nine months, the kind you send away to Switzerland, and the kind that are 30-something professionals who live in South Beach. The main drama again (sigh) takes place in the ongoing crazy love affair of Lina and George. At this point, we're convinced Lina is part of a group of remaining Soviet sympathizers in post-Cold War Russia o
​The Banana has a friend named Betty, who earlier this year picked up a two-bedroom condo on Brickell Avenue for $109,000. Betty got the unit at a bargain because it was in foreclosure. But you wouldn't know that by checking the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser's online property search database, a tool used by everybody from real estate agents to regular
folks to help determine selling prices.
A search of Betty's purchase shows she paid $340,000 in 2006. That's the price the person who los
