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  Miami-Dade Explores Privatizing New Jails

  October 8 at 8:30 a.m.

  Miami-Dade's jail system has been a mess for years. The downtown Pretrial Detention Center is now almost 60 years old. In recent years, the Department of Justice has blasted the county for operating leaky, roach-infested jails with overflowing urinals. And just last week, a correctional supervisor sued Miami-Dade for employment violations because the mold inside the detention center is so bad she can't breathe.

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  Someone Made a Wynwood-Themed Bar in Greece, and We Have Some Questions

  September 25 at 1:35 p.m.

  Wynwood is Miami's least remarkable neighborhood. South Beach is one of the world's most iconic art deco cityscapes. Little Havana is a melting pot of Cuban and American traditions that exists nowhere else on Earth. Wynwood has street art, endless EDM, and $17 cocktails. You could pluck any Wynwood bar, pop it into Brooklyn or Seattle or Portland or Los Angeles or Austin, and nobody would notice a thing.

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  Miami Trashes Salt Bae's Online Reviews After He Serves Steak to Maduro

  September 18 at 9:36 a.m.

  Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae, has built a global restaurant empire by turning himself into a sodium-tossing, skimpy-T-shirt-wearing Instagram meme. But the Miami outpost of his Nusr-Et steakhouse chain has been troubled from the start, bedeviled by lukewarm reviews and the Turkish chef's decision to engage in some Fidel Castro cosplay.

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  Miami-Dade's Fifth Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opening in Dadeland

  August 15 at 3 p.m.

  Medical pot is on the rise in Florida. Since voters legalized medical marijuana and low-THC cannabis in the November 2016 general election, Florida has added 144,557 patients to the Office of Medical Marijuana Use's user registry, according to the Department of Health’s latest update. For a state with a population of 21 million, about one in 145 Floridians can legally use medical weed.

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  Curaleaf Announces Florida's First Drive-Thru Dispensary

  June 16 at 8 a.m.

  As the medical marijuana market continues to bloom around the Sunshine State, Curaleaf, one of South Florida's main cannabis providers, is about to open the state's first drive-thru pot dispensary.

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  Amazon Prime Offers Discounts on Whole Foods Market Items for Florida Shoppers

  May 16 at 11:40 a.m.

  Amazon Prime members can now do their grocery shopping without spending their "whole paycheck." With a new perk, Prime members will receive an additional 10 percent off hundreds of sale items throughout Whole Foods Market locations when they download and use the Whole Foods Market app.