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Transportation Security Administration

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Rules Are for Fools

    That seems to be the motto of top officials at TSA Miami

  • News

    December 16, 2004

    Your Safety, Their Punch Line

    I once thought working for the Transportation Security Administration was serious business. I didn't have a clue

  • News

    June 30, 2005

    Breakin' the Law

    Miami resorts to threatening the feds in order to keep its secrets

  • News

    March 30, 2006

    The Terrorist Who Wasn't

    Hollywood's Manny Ebaid struggles to rebound after the War on Terror made him collateral damage

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    MIA Is the Best and the Worst

    Just yesterday the Transportation Security Administration named Miami International Airport the best airport of the year. Today Travel Leisure cobbled together some statistics and named MIA the third-worst airport in America. TSA's award was primarily for improved security measures, while T L to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Secure Monopoly

    Owing to the laziness of Transportation Security Administration and Miami-Dade County Aviation Department bureacrats, a company with a lucrative venture at Miami International Airport won't be getting any competition anytime soon. For the past eight years, Secure Wrap of Miami has held the exclusiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Airport Director Sets Record Straight

    Yesterday, I blogged about Secure Wrap of Miami's eight year lock on a Miami International Airport contract to wrap travelers' luggage in a cellophane-type material to deter theft of personal items. The post was based on a recent report by the county's inspector general criticizing the Miami-Dade A ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    That's a Wrap

    A fight brews over Secure Wrap's county contract at MIA.

  • News

    July 7, 2005

    Winged Victory

    A fight brews over Secure Wrap's county contract at MIA.

  • News

    January 13, 2005

    Letters from the Issue of January 13-19, 2005

    Daughters, rappers, dead newspapers, and the TSA cesspool

  • News

    December 30, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of , 2002

    TSA at MIA, KMAN's screed, and new rules for morons

  • News

    April 10, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of April 10-16, 2003

    Hector's mom, divide and conquer the black community, and hippies in Havana

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Letters from the Issue of , 2002

    Hector's mom, divide and conquer the black community, and hippies in Havana

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    The TSA Is Racist And Stupid

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke gets in on the Transportation Safety Administration body scanner controversy.The Transportation Security Administration e ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    Airport security is racist and stupid

    ​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke gets in on the Transportation Safety Administration body scanner controversy.The Transportation Security Administration e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Even the Neo Cons Are Taking Luther Campbell Seriously

    ​The folks over at conservative glossy The Weekly Standard think Luther Campbell's run is serious enough to warrant a 7,228-word profile. Writer Matt Labash spent a considerable amount of time shadowing Campbell early in his campaign. Kudos to his editors for allowing him the space to explore the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Do Implant Bombs Mean Miami Is Now More Dangerous Than Mazar-i-Sharif?

    Suspicious.​Miami has long been the unofficial fake boob capital of the country, probably the world (nice try, Caracas).Now, however, the Transportation Security Administration says that terrorists may be plotting suicide bombings using surgical implants.Suddenly our artificially enhanced paradise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2011

    The Woman Who Groped a TSA Screener and The Rising Tide of TSA Resistance

    Yukari Miyamae, released on Friday after allegedly groping an airport security officer​People have hated it from the beginning. The Transportation Security Administration's "advanced imaging technology," rolled out in November 2010, has caused all kinds of drama -- there was the breast cancer surv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Miami International Airport TSA Upgrade Means No More Naked Body Scans

    ​Bad news for techno-exhibitionists, and good news for pretty much everyone else: the days of those full body scans that leave little to the imagination at Miami International Airport security check points will soon be over. The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out new technology ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    I Smuggled a Knife, Stinky Cheese, and Herbs Past the TSA This Year

    ​A Massachusetts woman recently had a cupcake confiscated by a Transportation Security Administration agent at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport. The offending baked good was packaged in a jar, which immediately made it a potential weapon of mass destruction (and we're not even talking abou ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2012

    Carlos Miller: Freedom for photographers

    ​A Massachusetts woman recently had a cupcake confiscated by a Transportation Security Administration agent at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport. The offending baked good was packaged in a jar, which immediately made it a potential weapon of mass destruction (and we're not even talking abou ... More >>

  • News

    January 19, 2012

    Lavont Flanders, ex-cop rapist, struck again after prosecutors let him free

    ​A Massachusetts woman recently had a cupcake confiscated by a Transportation Security Administration agent at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport. The offending baked good was packaged in a jar, which immediately made it a potential weapon of mass destruction (and we're not even talking abou ... More >>

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