Monroe

South Florida Is Ground Zero for Medicare Fraud

End of the Diaz-Balart Dynasty

The Republican brothers are headed for defeat, and Cuban-American politics will change forever.

Sidewalk Salvation

Preach. Convert. Repeat.

The Big Cypress Deal

The cover story is conservation, but the Bush boys have their hands in the taxpayers' pockets again

Admitting Terror, Part 2

The INS has its own peculiar way of meting out justice: Promote the supervisor who intentionally misled Congress and harass the inspector who warned of terrorists

Deep Well Infection

A sordid tale about breaking rule number one: Don't shit where you drink

Hiking, Camping, and Gay Bashing

The Boy Scouts earn a merit badge for intolerance

DeFede: Deconstructing Alex

He billed himself as a reformer, but a close look at Alex Penelas's record reveals a politician more in tune with ambition than innovation

Firpomania!

Firpo Garcia has one big advantage in his school board campaign. His name is Sol Stinson.

Wages of Welfare War

Down in the Liberty City projects, a growing number of women's voices are just saying no to workfare as we know it

Florida City's Main Man

Hubert Albury is a fixture in South Miami-Dade's political scene. He also cooks a mean pigeon peas and rice.

Principles vs. Politics

Letters

The Resurrection of Robert Tilton

Dogged by grabby ex-wives and financial scandals, a Texas prophet-for-profit brings his TV act to Miami Beach

Chomp in the Swamp

Tracking South Florida's endangered crocodiles is a business best left to experts and maniacs

Calendar for the week

A Key Battle

The Conch Coalition and Taras Lyssenko claimed environmentalists were out to destroy the culture and economy of the Keys. Voters listened.

Judgment Day

After two years of litigation, a libel lawsuit against New Times is tossed out

Sorry About That Chief

As Miami Beach officials attempt to appoint a permanent top cop, anonymous critics try to stir up the selection process

Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Sue

How does a primate end up at the center of a courtroom battle? When animal dealer Matthew Block is involved, it's not so difficult

The Protectors

In the child abuse trenches with a Dade County HRS protective investigator

Do You Detect a Draft?

Undeterred by Miami's history of hops flops, local microbreweries unleash a new round of beer pressure

Field of Teens

When you grow up in the migrant labor camps of South Dade, sometimes it's gang life -- and sometimes it's no life

Black in the Red

Everyone expected Charles Howze's Z Mart to be a model for minority-run businesses in Dade. In a sad way it was: It went bankrupt.

The Racket Club

There's good money to be made in the game of insurance fraud. Maybe that's why some greedy people are so willing to hustle for clients, fake injuries, stage car accidents, and tell lies.

1 Herald Plaza

Her Brother's Keeper: Part 2

It wasn't quite the resolution he or his sister had hoped for, but John Popejoy's child-molestation case is finally closed

Basil Wainwright

The Adventures of Eco Man

Pretrial Services

Of approximately 55,000 people arrested and charged with felonies in Dade County every year, more than 20,000 are released under the aegis of Pretrial Services while awaiting trial