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Critics Say Doral Officials Wasted Thousands Traveling Around Guatemala

As part of a "sister city agreement," Doral officials frequently visit foreign cities including the City of Armenia, Guatemala City, New Taipei City, Oranjestad, and Barranquilla, allegedly to foster trade. But recently, Doral residents have begun to protest their city council members' seemingly frivolous spending, particularly after a recent trip in which Mayor Bermudez and Vice Mayor Cabrera, along with other officials, visited Guatemala City in late July.
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Miami Mojito CompanyA well-kept secret doesn’t stay that way for long, which explains why so many people know how to find Wynwood’s newest hidden tiki bar. The clandestine beach-themed place popped up in December 2016 for Art Basel, but creator Cesar Morales — owner of Wood Tavern and Bar Next Door — never closed the doors. Instead, […]
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Eight months ago, A.J. Delgado, a Cuban-American Donald Trump campaign adviser from Miami, hinted that Trump's original White House spokesperson, Jason Miller, was having an affair with someone on the campaign staff. After she called Miller the "2016 version of John Edwards," Miller resigned, and Politico later confirmed that the rumors...
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With Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt at the helm, the Trump administration has proposed cutting federal programs that monitor contaminant and fecal-mater levels in the Atlantic Ocean, keep tabs on phosphorous and mercury in the Everglades and Florida Keys, and clean up leaking underground tanks. Florida has the nation's highest number of leaking, corroded storage tanks that leach carcinogens like benzene into the soil.
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Here Are the People Irma Really Screwed Over in Miami

Hurricane Irma did more than decimate the Florida Keys — as Politico reporter Marc Caputo pointed out earlier this week, to "decimate" actually means to destroy every tenth person or thing, and Irma seems to have flattened much more than that in Monroe County. The same goes for Southwest Florida, and...
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BoJack Horseman: the Smartest TV Show About Major Depression

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Deerfield Beach resident Bryan Turner was first in line for J. Wakefield Brewing's most recent bottle release this past weekend. He arrived at the Wynwood taproom just after 9 p.m. Friday, June 9, and set up chairs in front of the brewery bay doors about 13 hours before bottle sales began.
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Florida Cops Give Black and Hispanic Drivers Harsher Speeding Tickets

In Florida, speeding tickets cost a heck of a lot more if you're driving more than 10 mph over the speed limit. As anyone who's ever been pulled over knows, the interaction with an officer can sometimes resemble a negotiation: If you play your cards right, you could get off with a warning or perhaps a cheaper ticket for, ahem, getting caught driving exactly 79 mph on the highway instead of 80.
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The Democratic Party Will Get Crushed in 2018

The Democratic Party is in desperate need of a major overhaul. Nationally, the party lost the crucial special election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District earlier this week. And here in Florida, the state's Democratic Party chairman, Stephen Bittel, badly alienated black Democratic lawmakers by calling them "childish," sparking accusations of racism.
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Florida Environmentalists Race to Save Threatened Gopher Tortoises From Developers

Carissa Kent was working at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office in 2006 when she heard the news: While building a new outlet in Lake Park, Walmart had destroyed the homes of dozens of gopher tortoises, a threatened species that lives in burrows deep underground. Worst of all, the megacompany had done so legally. The State of Florida simply required Walmart to pay only $11,409 in extra costs to level the animals' habitat.
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Leaked Climate Change Report Warns Only Massive Carbon Cuts Will Save Miami

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Tim Canova Deletes Tweet Implying Debbie Wasserman Schultz Fried His Surge Protector

As Democrats go, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a dreadful candidate. Her donor pool is dominated by corporate raiders and predatory capitalists, the list of important bills she's written is slim, and she helped drive her party toward catastrophic losses while she was the head of the Democratic National Committee. In theory, it should be easy to challenge her by refusing to take money from corporations, supporting single-payer health care, and generally being progressive in a post-Trump, post-Brexit world.
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Five Reasons LeBron James Is Missing the Miami Heat Right Now

Well, well, well. Rumor has it the milk has begun to sour in good old Believeland. LeBron James was already bothered by the Cavaliers' lack of free-agent signings and the inexplicable decision by owner Dan Gilbert to let go of the team's universally respected general manager, David Griffin. But then came Kyrie Irving's shocking demand for a trade.