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Table of Contents
2007

April

 5  

Another Chance

In Spite of the County’s Poor Record, Activists Would Rather Affordable Housing Programs Stay In Locals’ Hands

  
 

March

 29  

Desperate Developers

Scenes From a Miami Zoning Hearing in Which a Proposal to Build Three Towers Near Vizcaya Sure Did Inspire a Lot of Talk

  
 

 

 22  
Critical State
 Local Groups Sound Alarm on Poor State of Healthcare While ‘Elites’ Stick Up for Roosevelt Bradley
 
    8   Eighties Flashback
 Remember when Raul Masvidal was the Herald’s Pick for Mayor, Joe Carollo was an Angry Young Man with a Loving Wife, and Demetrio Perez Was a Right-Wing Blowhard?		  
 

February

 22   What’s the ‘Mater’?
 A Morality Play in Which Our Craven School Board Humbly Washes the Feet of One Fernando Zulueta, Charter School Magnate		  
    15   Public Health, Trust Us
Maybe It’s Time for a Little Self-Help		  
    8   The Hialeah Park Gamble
The Fight is on for the Heart of Hialeah. That is, if it in fact has one.		  
    1   Have Mercy on Coconut Grove
 Will Politics and a Ridiculously Tall Tower
Overshadow Coconut Grove’s Waterfront 		 
           
 

January

 18   Strong Mayor
How Cares? The Problem with the Government is You.		  
    11   Someone Oughta Pay
It’s Been Six Months Since the ‘House of Lies’ Exposé. So, All the Problems With Affordable Housing Are Solved, Right?		  
    4   Trading Up
 So Nick Saban Pussied Out and Took His Show to Tuscaloosa. Time to Bring Back the Shula Shine.		  
           

2006

December

 28   The Good the Bad and the Ugly
A Year in the Life of 3006		  
    21   Parting Ways
 As He Heads Off Into the Sunset, Tom Fiedler Shares His Journalist Views and Newsroom Regrets		  
    14  

Members Only
 The City of Miami Plans to Seek Advice From Citizens Who Don’t Live
in a ‘Third World Country’

  
    7   Counting to Three
 Activist Marc Sarnoff Got Elected, but Now He’s Finding
There’s a Steep Political Learning Curve		  
           
  November 30   Troubled? Lost? Come to Paradise
 Is the Magic Gone From the City Like Time Says? Nah. We’re Not So Much Dysfunctional as Easygoing		  
    16   Learning From Barkley
Miami’s Remaining District 2 Candidates Really Gotta Learn How to Chill		  
    9   Here’s to the Bitches and Snitches
 The Committee Against Useless Self-serving Efforts Has the Best Name of a PAC I’ve Seen So Far, Even Though It Has Little to Do With This Column		  
           
  October 26   Election Novellas and the Electronic Citizen
 Linda La Fea and Other Cinderella Tales from the Magic City		  
    19   The Insurgent
A Dade Chemistry Teacher Pushed Fellow Educators to Fight for Their Rights. Now His School District Career Is in Jeopardy		  
    12   Welcome to Beautiful Downtown Miami
 Where the Torn-up Sidewalks Are Courtesy of Ill-Managed Contracts and a Multitude of Shrugs		  
    5   Cloudy Vision
 How Miami’s Daily Newspaper Covers the News Has Become the News 		 
           
  September 21   Shaq Mugs for the Press While Activists Surround County Hall
 “If they don’t act on this crisis, the blood of the people is on their hands.”		  
    7   My Unrequited Pen Pal
 Why Won’t City Attorney Jorge Fernandez Write to Me? And Who’s That New Girl in Economic Development? Wait, the City of Miami Has a Department Like That? For Real?		  
           
  August 31   Blacker Than Thou
 Why Is the Local Black Political Establishment Afraid of African-Caribbean Aspiration?		  
    24   Miami Caca
 Election Season Is Fun and Occasionally Even Important		  
    17   Nobody’s Home
 Did Renier Diaz de la Portilla Pull a Fast One When He Registered Unopposed for the District 5 School Board Seat? Or Is He a Victim of a Fracturing Miami Republican Legislative Delegation? 		 
    10   Gimmickry
 Why We’re All Gonna Die, the Predicted Path of Hurricane Maurice and There’s Nothing Wrong With Crist a Butchover Wouldn’t Fix		  
    3    
           
  July 27   Parking Lot Bingo  
    13   Bayfrontin’ the Bicentennial
What One Downtown Miami Park Can Teach Us About the Other 		 
    6   The Geography of Pop Culture
A Look at What Miami-Dade’s Various Communities Like to Watch and Read		  
           
  June 29   Mi Casa, Sue Casa
 The Reimagining of Versace’s Mansion as an Elite Playground Left Out a Few Details, Like Obtaining Licenses and Paying Taxes		  
    22   Rezoning the News
 Daily’s Future as Civic Institution Partly Tied to Land Deals of Corporate Parent Knight Rid…, er, McClatchy Company		  
    15   White Hot Sleeper
If Manny Diaz Gets Cowboy Boots from Dallas,
I Hope He Uses One on His City Manager		  
    1   Crossing Jordan
 Commissioner Barbara Jordan’s Workforce Housing Ordinance Is So Ill-Wrought Nobody Wants It — Not Even Those It Is Designed For 		  
           
  May 25   Death and Politics
 Dorrin Rolle Is A Popular Commissioner—Mostly Among Those Who Don’t Live in His District		  
    18   Roadrageous, It’s Contagious
If You Think Beach Commuters Are Rude Now, Wait Until FDOT Tears Into the Flyover		  
    11   An In-Between Place
 Fever Dreams of Reality TV, a Gepsie Campaign and a Demographics Fetish 		 
    4   Feeling Crazy?
 In Miami, Better Keep the Voices to Yourself		  
           
  April 27   Crash Course
In Issues Ranging From Education to Billboards, What Side Are Lobbyists On? Answer: Their Own		  
    20   ‘This Is Not Fantasy Land’
Many County Commissioners Want to Look at Ways to Expand the UDB In Spite of What Residents, Environmentalists, State Agencies and Even Developers Say		  
    13   Hell of a Blowout
Thousands Turn Out to Celebrate the Uniqueness That Is
Jimbo’s and the Man Who Started It All — While They Still Can		  
    6   The Bubblegum Revolution
Miami May Ultimately Lose the Marlins, but It Could Gain Something Else
— a 90-Mile Art Bridge to Cuba		  
           
  March 30   Mural Morass
How an Industry Got Away With Breaking the Law in Miami		  
    23   Prelude to an Intervention
Some Advice for Miami’s Mayor on
How to End a Dysfunctional Relationship		  
    16   Murray We Hardly Knew Ye
‘Gentleman’ City Attorney Dubbin, 76, Retires; End of an Era		  
           
  February 23   Talking to an X-Man
Some Perspective on Miami’s Current State of Affairs From Former Mayor Xavier Suarez		  
    16   My Funny Valentine
A Bike Ride Into Beautiful Downtown Miami 		 
     9   Parking and the City
Someone Has to Be in Charge of the Constant Challenge That Is Miami Beach Parking		  
    2   The Miami Circle of Life
When It Comes to Miami, the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same		  
           
  January 26   A Tale of Two Gonzalezes
Or How the City of Miami Really Runs, Despite What the Manager Says		  
    12   The Mis-education of Miami-Dade Schools
There Is No Easy Fix for Education in Miami-Dade County		  
    5   The Swinging Pendulum
Can a New Law Preserve SoBe’s Entertainment Industry
While Granting Nearby Residents Some Peace and Quiet?		  
           
2005 December 29   Bye Bye 2005
The Year That Was What It Was		  
    22   The G-Forces of County Politics
Commissioner Carey-Shuler’s Resignation Was Predicted Long Before She Announced It		  
    15   Was a Beach High Teacher Punished for Stopping a “Columbine” Repeat?
Anthony confided that he knew some girls who were selling guns in the Miami Beach area.		  
    8   A Ruinous Path
Victor Diaz Is Very Worried About Miami Beach’s Future		  
           
  November 24   The End of the Line
The Chamber Lounge Ends, the UDB Wavers, the Miami Herald Shrinks, and Jim DeFede Reinvents Himself		  
    17    
    10   Tennis Anyone?
Miami Commissioner’s Aide Favors Green Space Over Clay Courts at Bryan Park. Many Parents — And the City’s Parks Department — Disagree. 		 
    3   Storm Surge
Or How I Got Rocked in the Hurricane		  
           
  October 13   Traffic in Paradise
“When bad things happen to good people…The Litigation Center can help,” opined a flyer from Jackie Woodward. 		 
           
  September 15   Craig’s World
Beyond Sight and Sound, You Have Entered The Internet Zone