LeBron might save Miami’s condo market

Fourteen-hour work days in ungodly heat in a city full of Al-Qaeda operatives and insurgents intent on killing you. Daily visits from soldiers whose minds have been shredded, if not by shrapnel than by the stress of fighting for years far from home.And you thought your job was tough. Local psychiatrist…

Apparently, the Cold War is not what it used to be. First we find out that the no-longer-so-Soviet Union (aka Russia) still has spies in the U.S. but they are totally lame and shop at Costco. Now Cuba teams up with the Catholic Church and announces it will release as…

Trade between the U.S. and Cuba may be reaching its nadir, but prisoner exchanges seem to be just getting started.On the day when paraplegic political prisoner Ariel Sigler Amaya arrived in Miami, a video of Fidel Castro shows the jefe supremo predicting the release of “The Cuban Five” by year’s…

Miller Dawkins’s name on Miami parks and pool makes few waves

Mr. President, tear down this wall… er… travel ban!Nearly two-thirds of Cuban-Americans living in Miami believe the island would be better off if the U.S. government’s travel ban were lifted, according to a new University of Miami study.The apparent change in attitude toward the travel ban could give Democrats –…

Little did you know, but that guy who made your extra-skinny mochachino this morning in Miami Beach might be sniping South American drug runners in his spare time. And that creepy guy in overalls down the block who moves his lawn three times a week? Straight-up CIA.At least that’s the…

Elegant Elliot Offen, the Howard Stern sidekick whose bodacious body earned him 20 hours in a Miami jail cell, is still fighting the local hotel he says had him “falsely imprisoned.” But now the hotel is trying to get the case thrown out, leaving Offen’s $21 million lawsuit hanging by…