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If You Build It

They won’t come ... or at least not without better planning

By Rob Jordan
Jun 28, 2007

Grocery shopping can be a bitch. Before you've picked up the staples -- peanut butter, bread, milk, cereal, pasta -- you find yourself in the booze aisle ogling a six-pack. You don't exactly need it, but you kind of do. Is it worth the extra seven bucks? Will you have...
Artist as Prisoner

Ed Bobb punched a few keys and went to jail. Where's the justice?

By Rob Jordan
May 31, 2007

A dozen inmates wait patiently in hard plastic chairs arranged in tight rows. They fix their stares on the steel double doors that occasionally bang open to admit a new face, usually a lawyer with a heavy briefcase. The visitation center lobby at the federal prison in downtown Miami hums...
Booted

These folks want to stay, but soon they'll have no choice

By Rob Jordan
May 17, 2007

Lucy Delgado's American Dream is about to die. The petite, talkative mother of four, together with her husband, Ervin, moved to Miami from Managua, Nicaragua, in 1990. After two years of saving, the family bought a home — an $8000 trailer at Blue Lake Mobile Home Ranch on West Flagler...
Orchid Jungle

One man's search to restore rare blossoms to their historic Florida home

By Rob Jordan
Apr 19, 2007

Seven hours into a sweaty, bloody trek through dense-cut grass, Brazilian pepper, and wax myrtle in the remote Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Mike Owen started shouting. "Home run! I've got a home run!" Owen, Fakahatchee's loquacious park biologist, had found a ghost orchid clinging to a pond apple tree...
While You Were Out

Florida's educational system leaves a lot to be desired.

By Francisco Alvarado, Frank Houston and Rob Jordan
Apr 5, 2007

While You Were Out Filed Under: News While you were out partying, doing hallucinogenic drugs, and having hedonistic (and maybe unprotected) sex during the recent Winter Music Conference, the University of Miami's medical school provided New Times with some astonishing, sobering facts: The AIDS rate among young people in Miami-Dade...

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