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Miami City Commissioner Angel Gonzalez will resign soon amid an investigation into a job he got his daughter. There’s probably a joke in here about his name being Angel while he is clearly not one, but why would we make a joke as horrible as that? That joke would be…

Three-legged dogs and one-eyed cats might want to hobble to the next county. There are few animal shelters with no-kill policies in Miami-Dade, and one of them closed last month. The Human Society has since taken over the family-run Pet Rescue in Miami Gardens. But there’s more to the story,…

Hello, Kitty: I’m a lesbian dating a woman who was born with both male and female parts. I learned about her “situation” after we’d been dating for two months. I’m not angry or upset — I’m falling in love with her. She says that she loves me too, but she…

For much of the year, Miami-Dade, like the rest of the country, has trouble thinking. Instead, it beeps its horn, shouts, sells land, writes legal briefs, builds baseball stadiums, raises children, kills pythons, overeats, breaks water mains, picks up people at the airport, and drops off people at the airport…

A few blocks from the ocean on Miami Beach, Robert Roark pops the trunk of a weather-worn station wagon where he’s been sleeping for a week. “I don’t need a motel,” he says. “My last $20,000 is going to a lawyer.” Everything the California builder needs fits in his car:…

Calvin Kingcade is a fit 25-year-old with a black eye, a broken jaw, and a mouth fastened shut with silver wires. He drools while he talks to his mom on Ward D of Jackson Memorial Hospital. One-fourth of his face is paralyzed. Kingcade has been attacked three times in jail…

Every so often, Riptide daydreams of traveling the world with Miami-Dade County Commissioner Natacha Seijas, serenading her with the sweet sounds of the toot flute in Peru. We also fantasize about not spending a dime to visit Machu Picchu and the like. While services are being whacked, she charges luxury…

A year ago, a 33-year-old financier named Javier bought a two-bedroom condo in a posh new building downtown for just under $200,000. From his white leather couch, his gigantic windows offer spectacular views of both the river and the bay. He walks to Miami Heat games, takes the Metromover, and…

Robert Pedraza is a 24-year-old self-taught programmer with a thin frame, spiky dark hair, gleaming braces, and squinty eyes. His brother Rudy is a year older and a quarter-foot taller. He counters the computer-nerd image with a half-buttoned dress shirt and an intense stare. Last year, the two Miami natives…

The stables at Tropical Park, from Sienar’s Flickr. …

City of Miami Police Chief John Timoney has resigned, according to sources. His resignation comes as Tomas Regalado is being sworn in as mayor. Regalado made firing Timoney a frequent point in his campaign. It appears Timoney beat Regalado to the punch before he could pressure the city manager to push through…

As of noon today, Manny Diaz will no longer be mayor of Miami. The Miami Herald paints him as “a sober, patient reformist up to his elbows in the minutiae of turning around a troubled city” who enacted “an agenda of a scope unmatched by any other Miami mayor in…

Just a day after rumors made the rounds that the temporary hoops marriage of LeBron James and Shaquille O’Neal might come to an end next year, TMZ reports Shaq and his wife Shaunie are heading for splits-ville again.Shaunie originally filed for divorce in 2007 while Shaq was still playing for…

Today’s photo comes from HellFire Design’s Flickr…