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  Miami's "Super-Commuters" Drive More Than 90 Minutes Each Way to Work

  August 15 at 10 a.m.

  What do you call someone willing to face more than three hours of Miami gridlock five days a week? Crazy? A masochist? Well, take a look at how much these people earn, and you might just change your mind.

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  Jared Kushner's Family Wants to Build $500 Million Tower on Biscayne Boulevard

  August 15 at 8 a.m.

  Many of the land developers gentrifying portions of central Miami are already fairly annoying. For example, Bob Zangrillo, one of the major investors in the controversial Magic City Innovation District in Little Haiti, is a Burning Man attendee who was indicted earlier this year for allegedly paying bribes to get his daughter into the University of Southern California.

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  South Beach Is Heading to North Beach

  August 5 at 10:07 a.m.

  In exchange for a public park, Miami Beach amended its city code last week to allow real-estate developers to build a luxury condo and hotel where a parking lot currently resides on Ocean Terrace.

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  Almost 800,000 South Florida Homes Could Be Flooded by 2100

  August 2 at 10 a.m.

  We all know Miami will be underwater sooner or later. But while some folks are plotting how to spend their Atlantean retirement down here, others are asking the all-important question: How much is it gonna cost?

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  Little Haiti Activist Sues to Stop Massive, Controversial Magic City Development

  July 31 at 4:39 p.m.

  Miami officials seem hellbent on paving over one of the city's last vibrant immigrant communities. Activists in Little Haiti for years have been pushing back against plans to build the Magic City Innovation District — a 17-acre luxury living and shopping complex that is unlike anything else in the working-class neighborhood of Little Haiti.

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  Feds Auction Off Homes Bought With Dirty Money From $3 Billion Pyramid Scheme

  July 25 at 9 a.m.

  In 2017, James Merrill of Massachusetts was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in a massive pyramid scheme that fleeced roughly 1.8 million people out of more than $3 billion. Merrill and his partner, Carlos Wanzeler, made off like bandits with millions in illegitimate gains they dumped into 21 South Florida properties.