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June 1, 2009
Miami-Dade Food Stamps - How To Apply For and Receive Benefits
http://www.dcf.state.fl.us/ess/foodstamps.shtmlRecent, informal, New Times web research showed a poor return of official government websites providing information on how to apply for and receive food stamp benefits in Miami-Dade county.A google search for Miami-Dade food stamps returned mostly pages ... More >>
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January 6, 2009
Food Stamp Nation - Florida Leads The Pack
The Miami Herald reports that "In the last two years, the number of Floridians on food stamps has increased more than 40 percent to 1.7 million. That increase is the highest in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."The numbers read like this, 356,000 food stamp recipients liv ... More >>
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August 16, 1994
Psst! Want to Sell Some Food Stamps?
See, you give me the stamps and I'll give you some money. Well, it's not my money, exactly.
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December 21, 2000
Doing the Lord's Work Is Never Easy
Especially when you have investigators breathing down your neck and rabble-rousers raising holy hell
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April 1, 2010
Overtown Farmers' Market
Especially when you have investigators breathing down your neck and rabble-rousers raising holy hell
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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 >>
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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 >>
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November 3, 2011
Cut off Food Stamps to Mercedes Owners? Just Maybe
There's been a lot of discussion lately about a plan in Michigan to deny food stamp benefits to people who own cars worth $15,000 and up.At first I thought, "Well, yeah." A $15,000 car can be a symbol of financial success. It's not a sign someone is in dire straits. Then I mulled the scenarios that ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>