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Miami Urban League Charged by HUD for Discriminating Against Disabled Veteran

​The Urban League of Greater Miami helped to desegregate public housing in Dade County, supported Miami's Fair Housing Ordinance, and over the past seven decades has spearheaded a number of housing projects in the county. Now, shockingly, U.S. Department of Housing and Urb ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of June 21, 2007

"Miami has lost a premier shooting facility. What a pity!"

Letters from the Issue of June 14, 2007

"We are led by nonpark professionals in executing a $400 million bond issue"

UnFair

A local leader testifies before Congress ... with questionable backing

Down in Flames

Miami's business leaders vowed to yank MIA from the clutches of politicians, but the politicians yanked back

Smaller Is Better

The case for breaking up the grossly dysfunctional Miami-Dade County school district

The Meek Shall Inherit the House

And in the process dynasty trumps democracy

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of December 28, 2000

Born to Lose

Created after the 1980 riots, the Metro Miami Action Plan was supposed to level the playing field for blacks. What happened?

Chairman of the Board

Folks don't know much about school board chairman Solomon Stinson, but they do know this: Don't cross him

A Day of Reckoning

The Devil and Mr. Jones

Activist Leroy Jones battled personal demons and has emerged as a radical bent on black empowerment.

The Kids Love Him!

A lousy federal indictment isn't going to keep Humberto Hernandez down -- not with South Florida's generous youngsters as campaign contributors

Music to Die For

Miller's Time

Token Ridership

Metrobus is Dade's most effective public transportation. But when it comes to funding, the bus system and its patrons always get taken for a ride.

From Knight Manor to Nightmare

Just when a forlorn section of Liberty City is about to get the help it so desperately needs, along comes Miller Dawkins on his political bulldozer

A Whiter Shade of Green

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.

Miami's Favorite Cover Girl

One newspaper praises Miriam Alonso, the other criticizes her. One newspaper sits comfortably in its newsracks, the other vanishes mysteriously. Coincidence?

Meet Miami's Next Mayor

Political gangster or humble servant, Miriam Alonso wins either way

Letters

White on Black

The Quiet Riot