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On Mom’s Day, the Dolphins GM Should Go to the Ghetto

By Luther Campbell
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 addresses the importance of Mother's Day and why Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland is a motherf***er.Mother's...
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Ronald Reagan immigration amnesty 25 years later

By Steven Thrasher
On a hot Tuesday night in Jackson Heights, in a storefront next to a Rent-a-Center on Roosevelt Avenue, a meeting room fills rapidly. Over the din of the elevated 7 train, the large hall buzzes with Spanish dialects from various Latin American countries. The space is the Queens home of...
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Hack Pack

By Tim Elfrink
Andres Torres was dozing on a couch with the blinds drawn when he heard a chorus of boots pounding the stairs. The pudgy retiree with a fringe of white hair hobbled toward the door just as quiet settled over the yellow building of one-bedroom condos. In the distance, cars hummed...
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Kendrick Meek Should Be Worried About Dennis Stackhouse

By Francisco Alvarado
Congressman Kendrick Meek better keep a close eye on what happens to Dennis Stackhouse, the Boston developer who's been criminally charged on multiple counts of grand theft and organized scheme to defraud. Local law enforcement officials accuse Stackhouse of stealing $942,000 set aside to build a biopharmacutical park and create...
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Pint-Size Preacher

By Natalie O'Neill
On a treeless cement slab of Northwest Miami-Dade, a swarm of spruced-up families filters into New Harvest Missionary Baptist Church. In a cluttered office at the building's rear, Terry Durham sits quietly on a folding chair, his knee bobbing anxiously. He's dressed with flamboyant confidence in white alligator skin boots...
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The Dead Among Us

By Francisco Alvarado
Between September and November last year, an anomaly occurred in Miami. For 38 days straight, no one was murdered within city limits. It was one of those rare occurrences that had newspapers around the state buzzing. But while the Magic City enjoyed a small respite from people getting killed, the...
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The Curse

By Gus Garcia-Roberts
During the party-filled week before graduation, Jeffrey Johnson Jr. kept a cap and gown neatly folded in the trunk of his burnt-orange Chevy Monte Carlo. The 17-year-old scholar, set to receive summa cum laude honors in the Carol City Senior High School class of 2006, had worked hard for both...
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Live Blogging the Vice Presidential Debate

By Kyle Munzenrieder
Tonight is the hotly anticipated Vice Presidential debate. In one corner we have Sarah Palin, who has lowered expectations so much that if she manages to put together at least one complete sentence she'll be declared the winner. In the other there's Joe Biden, some old, white dude who's so...
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Miami Fury Football Still Struggles

By Francisco Alvarado
It's a blazing late May afternoon at Nathaniel "Traz" Powell Stadium near Opa-locka. The 29 members of the Miami Fury gather at the 50-yard line, dressed in their shiny aqua uniforms. On the running track that surrounds the field, near the locker rooms, the Pure Funk DJs from 97.7 FM...
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Sugar and Spice

By Jason Handelsman
"I've known Trick Daddy for a while," Miami rap diva Trina says of the fortuitous friendship that gave her the first leg up in the fickle music industry. "We went to junior high school together, and we've always kept in touch. Trick was like the crazy dude. He was everybody's...