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Lake Okeechobee

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Expect an Even Rainier Than Normal Summer in Miami

    We're just weeks away from the start of South Florida's wet season. Which, not to bum everyone out, means it's almost time for our daily mid-afternoon rain showers. Meteorologists predict that this summer could see even more rainfall than average this year. In terms of water levels and such, that's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2011

    The Venus Project's Jacque Fresco Lectures Occupy Miami On His Visions Of A Utopian Future

    ​Since the Occupy movements started pitching tents and politically motivated fits alike, the rest of the world's been asking, "What the hell do you expect to achieve from sleeping under the stars and smelling like last week's lunch?" Futurist Jacque Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows, cre ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    Wounded Warriors in Action Foundation uses hunting trips to heal vets

    ​Since the Occupy movements started pitching tents and politically motivated fits alike, the rest of the world's been asking, "What the hell do you expect to achieve from sleeping under the stars and smelling like last week's lunch?" Futurist Jacque Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows, cre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Fairy Shrimp and Rainbow Snakes are Probably Extinct in Florida

    ​Two indigenous Florida species may have gone extinct sometime in the past few decades according to the  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. No one has seen any fairy shrimps or rainbow snakes in years. We don't want to make any assumptions based on their names, but, you know, Florida u ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 18, 2011

    Got Some Nerve

    ​Two indigenous Florida species may have gone extinct sometime in the past few decades according to the  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. No one has seen any fairy shrimps or rainbow snakes in years. We don't want to make any assumptions based on their names, but, you know, Florida u ... More >>

  • News

    June 4, 2009

    Swamped

    Saving the Glades could mean screwing these guys.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Pahokee's Latest Football Superstar Tased, Arrested in Gainesville

    Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Feed Us, Seymour

    Back in January, we brought you the story of Janoris Jenkins, the latest in a staggering list of football superstars to emerge from the small towns around Lake Okeechobee, about 80 miles northwest of Miami. Like Fred Taylor and Anquan Boldin before him, Jenkins joined the pantheon of football greats ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Muck Bowl Alum Dominates the Super Bowl (But It's Not Boldin)

    A few miles north of Miami, on the swampy edges of Lake Okeechobee, there are a couple of impoverished little towns called Pahokee and Belle Glade where they churn out gasp-inducing football talent like a cash crop. Without much else to do, the kids chase and skin rabbits and play pig ... More >>

  • News

    January 8, 2009

    Lucky Rabbit's Foot

    Pahokee's latest superstud hunts a BCS title in Miami.

  • News

    December 25, 2008

    Hog Huntin' in the Glades

    A lost art or a horrible slaughter? It's all in the eye of the hunter.

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Ex-North Miami Mayor Elton Gissendanner Is Back

    A prison stay and bankruptcy can't keep him down.

  • News

    July 17, 2008

    Sugar Deal Is Not So Sweet

    Charlie Crist gets a bogus hero medal for bailing out Big Sugar.

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2008

    Weekly News Roundup - Permanent Water Restrictions for South Florida

    Charlie Crist gets a bogus hero medal for bailing out Big Sugar.

  • News

    March 27, 2008

    Perez Hilton Picks a Fight

    Haters and lawsuits threaten Miami's infamous celebrity gossip export.

  • News

    November 11, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of November 11-17, 2004

    Public-radio lovefest, parks and mounted police, humans as panther bait

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    From Bitter to Sweet

    Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2004

    Buck This

    Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2004

    Weird Science

    Margaret Atwood details a new dystopia

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2004

    Green Piece

    Go native, preaches plant society

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    One For the Heart

    A UN of doctors saves a little American from ventricular septal defect

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of August 8, 2002

    Can one man fix the nation's fourth-largest school system?

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    God's Eye on the Sparrow

    Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

  • News

    March 14, 2002

    Letters from the Issue of March 14, 2002

    University of Miami administrators called for downfield interference

  • Diversions

    May 17, 2001

    Best Tourist Trap

    Coral Castle

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    His Feathered Friends

    Without the help of a South Florida conservationist, the island of Dominica may bid farewell to its national bird

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Swamp and Circumstance

    Planners hope the Natural System Model can help restore the Everglades. But will it survive politics?

  • Music

    May 6, 1999

    Turn to the Left and Cough

    Planners hope the Natural System Model can help restore the Everglades. But will it survive politics?

  • News

    November 5, 1998

    The Catalyst

    Marleine Bastien -- activist, social worker, songwriter, mother -- is helping to lead the resurgence of South Florida's Haitian political agenda

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Really for the Birds

    A weird government plan to help save an endangered species winds up threatening to defile the Everglades

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Big Chief Moneybags

    Part CEO, part shaman, Seminole leader James Billie has his tribe charging toward economic independence.

  • News

    January 22, 1998

    Hungry Is the Hunter

    Lawmen, developers, and environmentalists have made Everglades hunters feel like an endangered species

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    Letters

    Lawmen, developers, and environmentalists have made Everglades hunters feel like an endangered species

  • News

    August 29, 1996

    Where's the Beach?

    The true story behind the beach erosion explosion is politics as usual

  • News

    August 8, 1996

    Paradise Found

    British author Alexander Stuart exiled himself to South Beach before writing the aptly titled Life on Mars

  • News

    February 22, 1996

    Big Fish, Little Pond

    For more than a decade, Otis Wallace has called the shots in tiny Florida City. That seems to be just fine with the locals.

  • News

    July 27, 1995

    Battle by Proxy

    Environmentalist George Barley's untimely death has impoverished the fight to save the Everglades. But look out, Big Sugar! Here comes Mary!

  • News

    October 27, 1994

    The World According to Carr

    Cynics say that to explore the depths of South Florida culture, all you have to do is scratch the surface. Dade County archaeologist Bob Carr digs deeper and knows better.

  • News

    October 20, 1994

    Running on Empty

    A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

  • News

    October 12, 1994

    We are now scrambling to find additional supplies of water. Among their most immediate measures, they recently requested permission from the state to pump more water for treatment at the Hialeah-Preston plants.

    A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

  • News

    June 29, 1994

    A Fish Tale

    First you take a berry. Then you dangle it in the water. Count to ten and reel in your line. Sound simple? It is.

  • News

    June 1, 1994

    How Now, Pow Wow?

    Miami rolled out the red carpet for visiting travel honchos. They ate, they drank, they went back home.

  • News

    February 2, 1994

    God's Country

    Live alligators. Dead snakes. Howling owls. About the only thing the Everglades doesn't have is a bright future.

  • News

    April 21, 1993

    Hearts and Mayans

    Jack Leonard has opened his South Dade home to Guatemalan migrants. What more can he do?

  • News

    December 9, 1992

    The Trickle Up Theory

    Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

  • Dining

    July 22, 1992

    Price -A-Roni

    Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

  • News

    February 12, 1992

    Falcon and Magluta

    Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

  • Film

    February 12, 1992

    Fest Asleep

    Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

  • News

    April 10, 1991

    Canoe Trip

    Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

  • News

    April 10, 1991

    You Can Get There From Here

    Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

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