Subject: Port of Miami

• Blog of the Day

  October 11, 2006

• Tons of Weed and Nobody to Smoke It

  September 15, 2008

• BEST DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM

  May 13, 2004

• Is the Megaplan dying? Port of Miami tunnel plan squashed

  You may have heard of the Global Agreement- the ominously titled, outrageously ambitious $3 billion project that will basically solve all of Downtown Miami's debt problems, put a new Marlins stadium in Little Havana, build of Port of Miami tunnel, and cure genital warts.  Okay, we threw that last one in a bit unrealistically, but hey, can't we act like a politician every once in a while?The wheels may be falling off this crazy bus as it hurtles through a getting-scarier-by-the-moment Recession.

  December 12, 2008

• Keep Off The Grass!

  May 22, 1991

• News Roundup

  It is the 50th anniversary of the start of complete and utter failure in Cuba. [Herald]Haitian-Americans have their very own Madoff to hate now. George Theodule bilked more than $23 million in a ponzi scheme. [JustNews]Demonstrators with sympathies on both side of the Isreal-Palestine conflict took to the streets yesterday in protest. [Herald]$5.5 million worth of cocaine was seized at Port of Miami. New Year's Eve for coke heads has been ruined. [NBC6]More of these depressing facts of wh

  December 31, 2008

• Bon Voyage!

  December 18, 1991

• News Roundup

  The family of the kidnapping expert who was abducted last month in Mexico makes a plea for his safe return. [NBC6]The De Cespedes brothers were sentenced to nine years each for hospital fraud. [NBC6]A stalker in Brevard County doesn't quite rich levels of Astronaut Lisa Novak crazy, but comes close by urinating in soda bottles while waiting at his ex-girlfriend's house. [SunSent]A street in North Miami Beach will be named after slain police officer Detective James Walker. [Herald]The state

  January 8, 2009

• News Roundup

  The Port of Miami tunnel isn't dead yet, and may be back on in April. [Herald]The Florida Speaker of the House took a job with a school he's steered money towards which may not be ethical, and he's basically the worst speaker ever. [Herald]Thieves in Hialeah broke into a Best Buy. Don't they know they can go to Circuit City and get the same stuff for cheap now? [CBS4]5 area Catholic schools will be closing at the end of the school year. [CBS4]You now have a "towing bill of rights" in Miami Beach

  January 19, 2009

• Dennis Moss Picks Committee Chairs

  Dennis Moss is done putting together the new make-up of the county commission's committees and I'm impressed with most of his selections. In case you don't know, the commissioners use the committee system to hammer out decisions that ultimately impact our tax dollars, from formulating new ways to tax us to doling out patronage in the form of lucrative contracts. As the new Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman, or the Big Triple C, for short, Dennis Moss has the authority to reshape the committe

  January 23, 2009

• News Roundup

  UM is asking its individual schools to cut their budgets by at least 5 percent, and is considering pay freezes. [CBS4]Steve Rodriguez attempted to undress and possibly rape a woman in the parking lot at the International Mall. Now he's in police custody. [NBC6]A baby alligator? In my pool? [NBC6]More than 3,000 pounds of pot were found at the Port of Miami. [Herald]Another Medicare fraud ring, this one involving obsolete HIV therapy. [JustNews]Opium is moving from South Beach to the Hard Rock ca

  February 17, 2009

• Feds: Miami Man Funneled Money To Irish Terrorists Behind This Weekend's Attacks

  A Cutler Bay man funneled money to the Irish terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Belfast on Saturday, federal prosecutors say in a complaint unsealed in Miami-Dade court today and obtained by Riptide.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsAn IRA mural in Belfast. An IRA splinter group took credit for this weekend's attack.For at least three years, Roman Vidal, 57, allegedly smuggled millions of dollars in black market cigarettes through the Port of Miami on behalf of European gangs --- including

  March 9, 2009

• Miami's Favorite Shock Jock vs 24 Hour Fitness vs Coconut Grove's Favorite Blogger

  Miami's reigning number one public intellectual (and I say that with all due respect) Enrique Santos was out picketing the Shaq 24 Hour Fitness in Coconut Grove this weekend. Depending on which side of the story you believe, either he got kicked out for being a fatty in the eyes of the holy fitness gods or he got busted trying to bring in his own private trainer to the gym. So he hooks up with the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (a real organization, apparently) to protest the gym

  March 16, 2009

• Treasured Isle

  March 23, 1995

• News Roundup

  LocalMiami commissioners will vote on whether to build a new children's courthouse today. [Herald]And F.D.O.T. is expected to finally make a decision on the Port of Miami tunnel this week. Gee, so many things are coming to a head this week. Once you commit $2.1 billion to help a private enterprise like the Marlins, everything else seems like kids play. [Herald]Thousands of Miami-Dade school employees will have their pay delayed for three days. Ever a one-upper, superintendent Alberto Carvalho wa

  March 26, 2009

• Dialing Your Dollars

  July 13, 1995

• Irish Blood

  Feds say Cutler Bay man funded Irish terrorists through Port of Miami scheme.

  March 19, 2009

• Bet on Norman Braman

  December 18, 2008

• The Deco Is Back

  April 23, 2009

• Another No-Confidence Vote for Timoney

  October 18, 2007

• Hustlin' Flow

  October 19, 2006

• Rick Ross

  August 17, 2006

• Instruments of Commerce

  May 13, 2004

• Junk Bonds

  May 6, 2004

• The Greenpeace Effect

  April 29, 2004

• Health Nuts

  October 9, 2003

• A Fissure Runs Through It

  September 13, 2001

• Shake

  April 26, 2001

• The Children's Museum, Inc.

  October 12, 2000

• Letters to the Editor

  September 28, 2000

• Spoiled Island

  September 21, 2000

• In Too Deep

  September 21, 2000

• A Hole So Foul

  September 7, 2000

• Best Defense

  May 11, 2000

• On the Block

  March 16, 2000

• The Perfect Scam

  February 3, 2000

• These Numbers Are Up

  January 7, 1999

• Grigsby in Defense of Grigsby

  December 3, 1998

• Teele, Toil, and Trouble

  April 30, 1998

• Take My Son, Please

  April 9, 1998

• Shape Up and Ship Out

  March 12, 1998

• Master of Mixology

  March 5, 1998

• The Man Who Caught Carmen

  June 12, 1997

• Alonso to Corrupters: Watch Out!

  May 29, 1997

• Goo Grief

  March 20, 1997

• River Rats

  February 20, 1991

• Black-Market Cigarettes: Miami's New Vice

  July 2, 2009

• Miami's Black-Market Cigarette King and Irish Terror Financier Likely to Plead Guilty

  A few weeks ago, New Times brought you the story of our own black-market cigarette king, Roman Vidal.The feds accused the gray-haired Cutler Bay resident of funneling millions of illegal smokes through the Port of Miami to England and Ireland. Worse, investigators say Vidal's profits went to a group connected to the Real IRA, an Irish terrorist front that murdered two British soldiers in cold blood back in March.Vidal initially pleaded not guilty to four felony charges of smuggling and fraud. Bu

  July 24, 2009

• Miami's Black-Market Cigarette King Pleads Guilty

  Earlier this summer, New Times brought you the story of Roman Vidal, a 54-year-old Cutler Bay resident accused of funneling millions of dollars' worth of black-market cigarettes through the Port of Miami to criminal gangs in Europe.​Just before 11 a.m. today, Vidal pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud, mail fraud, and smuggling. Speaking in heavily accented English, Vidal admitted his role in planning at least four shipments of millions of black-market smokes to Europe. Vidal hid the ci

  August 14, 2009

• News Roundup

  H1N1 vaccines will be administered in South Florida beginning Monday, with a news conference scheduled today to fill in details. [CBS4]You know it's a slow news morning when NBCMiami's main story is about a manatee that traveled all the way to Manhattan. [NBCMiami]Let's see what the Herald's working with: Oh, a story about seniors "scrimping" because they don't get a Social Security raise this year. [Herald]The Port of Miami tunnel was cleared and might actually happen. Now we just have to wait

  October 16, 2009