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Wakefield Archive
(9.15.05 to present)
Table of
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2008 |
April |
24 |
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The Petulant Blogger and Other Tales
Only in Miami could you have a former DEA agent running for
property appraiser and a mayor blogging about how great he is |
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03 |
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Know Thyself
Miami Beach
has some housekeeping to do, while
Miami
faces the prospect of a protracted mayoral campaign.
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February |
28 |
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Devilish Details
Years of government waste, fraud and mismanagement give
little cause for confidence in future mega-deals
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January |
31 |
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The Long Day
What the
Florida primary meant to our political parties
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24 |
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Task Force TV
There are only a few more county Charter Review Task
Force meetings — and they make for some of the best
reality TV around
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17 |
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Los Primeros de Hialeah Park
What links a boy band, mayoral politics, Rudy
Giuliani, gambling and civic windmill-tilting? Those
juicy Hialeah voters
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10 |
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Everything’s Related
A very brief look at The Related Group’s local
legacy
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03 |
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Putting Government on an Allowance
A pair of referendums is putting our local officials
on notice |
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2007
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December |
13 |
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Uploading a
Revolution
Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s Web
army is building a new virtual reality. But will
they vote in the real world? |
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06 |
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Art Wynwood
What Art Basel looks like from Little San Juan
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November |
29 |
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Slum Sweet Slum?
On one side of town, the condo bust isn’t as bad as
you think. On the other, it’s worse |
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22 |
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What’s in a Name?
Selling out can mean millions for
Miami Beach |
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08 |
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Jackass World
Yes, many of the messages left on the
Herald’s Internet site are stupid and
offensive. But some are kinda fun, too. |
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01 |
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Sleepless in Miami
The Dolphins of London, welcoming Wilker, election
days and other random thoughts |
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October |
25 |
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The
Miami Vice
Mayor
Alex Daoud, a former Miami Beach mayor who went to
prison on corruption charges, has a new book out
detailing the rock and roll world of Beach politics
in the ’80s |
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18 |
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Buzzkill ’08
For the sake of their
futures, Beach voters have to get motivated — and
vote |
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11 |
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The End of Grove Royalty
Welcome to the home of Coconut Grove’s Hugh Hefner. Would you
care to take off your pants? |
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September |
27 |
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The Mess Hall
You may or may not be surprised to know the lunch menu at the
county jail looks a lot like the menu at a typical public school
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20 |
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Safety Burn
What Happens When a Fire Inspector Points Out His City’s
Selective Safety Enforcement? He Gets Extinguished |
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06 |
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Six Degrees of Jorge Perez
What Happens When Rich People
Fight? The Ugly Comes Out |
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August |
30 |
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Ball Breaker
How in the World Did the Former Spokesman for One of Miami’s
Most Conservative Anti-Castro Organizations End Up Running the
Local Democratic Party? |
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23 |
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Free Ride
It’s Time for Miami Police Chief John Timoney to Take a Test
Drive Into the Sunset |
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16 |
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Use The Force
Citizens Sound Off About the Shortcomings of
County Politics at a Charter Review Meeting
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09 |
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Hunger Pangs
A Frankie’s Big City Pizza/Philly Cheesesteak
Confessional |
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02 |
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‘More Bang for the Buck’
Some Good Ideas About How We Choose Our Leaders
Are Coming Out of County Hall. Will Anyone Listen? |
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July |
26 |
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I Am Not a Communist
Oscar
Corral Dreamed of One Day Being Hired by the Miami Herald. He
Never Imagined His Wish Would Come With an Existential Crisis
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19 |
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Connecting
Ah, to Be
Young and Stupid and Full of Hope |
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12 |
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Voting
Is Cool!
It’s Our
Fault Our Politicians Generally Suck. Now This Columnist Wants
to Do Something About It. |
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June |
28 |
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The Firm
Within the Firm
Miami
City Hall Activates Political Spin Machine After Arrest of 11
City Employees |
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Victor Igwe for Mayor
Anyone Deemed
Annoying at Miami City Hall Is All Right in My Book |
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Jammed at MAM
Terence Riley Is
Determined to Give Miami the Museum He Says It Needs |
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May |
31 |
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No Habla ESOL
North Florida Group Gets
Legislation Passed That Some Say Will Impact South Florida Students’
Resources for Learning English |
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17 |
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The People
Under the Park
Activists Can Be Annoying, But
They Often Do Have a Point |
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10 |
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Water World
Raging Waves From the Ocean and
Scarcity of Fresh H2O Give Clues About Florida’s Environment |
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3 |
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All That Glitters Is Green
The Related Group’s Crack Team
Exposed |
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April |
26 |
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Give Us Condos, or Your Poor
Sick Grandmother Gets It
Mercy Hospital President Vows to
Raise Funds the Nonprofit Needs. But It’ll Be So Much Harder Without
a Land Sale. |
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5 |
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Another Chance
In Spite of the County’s Poor Record, Activists Would Rather
Affordable Housing Programs Stay In Locals’ Hands |
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March |
29 |
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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 |
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22 |
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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? |
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February |
22 |
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What’s the
‘Mater’?
A Morality Play in Which Our Craven School Board
Humbly Washes the Feet of One Fernando Zulueta, Charter School
Magnate |
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15 |
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Public Health, Trust Us
Maybe
It’s Time for a Little Self-Help |
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8 |
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The Hialeah Park Gamble
The Fight is on for the Heart of Hialeah. That is, if it in fact has
one. |
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Have Mercy on Coconut Grove
Will Politics and a Ridiculously Tall Tower
Overshadow Coconut Grove’s Waterfront |
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January |
18 |
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Strong Mayor
How Cares? The Problem with the Government is You. |
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11 |
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Someone Oughta Pay
It’s Been Six Months Since the ‘House of Lies’ Exposé. So, All the
Problems With Affordable Housing Are Solved, Right? |
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4 |
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Trading Up
So Nick
Saban Pussied Out and Took His Show to Tuscaloosa. Time to Bring
Back the Shula Shine. |
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2006 |
December |
28 |
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly
A Year in the Life of 3006 |
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21 |
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Parting Ways
As He Heads
Off Into the Sunset, Tom Fiedler Shares His Journalist Views and
Newsroom Regrets |
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14 |
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Members Only
The City of
Miami Plans to Seek Advice From Citizens Who Don’t Live
in a ‘Third World Country’
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7 |
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Counting to
Three
Activist
Marc Sarnoff Got Elected, but Now He’s Finding
There’s a Steep Political Learning Curve |
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November |
30 |
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Troubled?
Lost? Come to Paradise
Is the Magic Gone From
the City Like Time Says? Nah. We’re Not So Much
Dysfunctional as Easygoing |
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Learning From Barkley
Miami’s Remaining District 2 Candidates Really Gotta
Learn How to Chill |
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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 |
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October |
26 |
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Election
Novellas and
the Electronic Citizen
Linda La
Fea and Other Cinderella Tales from the Magic City |
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19 |
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The
Insurgent
A Dade Chemistry
Teacher Pushed Fellow Educators to Fight for Their Rights. Now His
School District Career Is in Jeopardy |
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12 |
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Welcome to
Beautiful Downtown Miami
Where the
Torn-up Sidewalks Are Courtesy of Ill-Managed Contracts
and a Multitude of Shrugs |
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5 |
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Cloudy
Vision
How
Miami’s Daily Newspaper Covers the News Has Become the
News |
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September |
21 |
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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.” |
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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? |
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August |
31 |
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Blacker Than Thou
Why Is the
Local Black Political Establishment Afraid of African-Caribbean
Aspiration? |
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24 |
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Miami Caca
Election Season Is Fun and
Occasionally Even Important |
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17 |
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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?
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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 |
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July |
27 |
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Parking Lot
Bingo |
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Bayfrontin’ the Bicentennial
What One Downtown Miami Park Can Teach Us About the Other
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The Geography of Pop Culture
A Look at What Miami-Dade’s Various Communities Like to Watch and
Read |
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June |
29 |
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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 |
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22 |
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Rezoning the
News
Daily’s Future as Civic
Institution Partly Tied to Land Deals of Corporate Parent Knight
Rid…, er, McClatchy Company |
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White Hot Sleeper
If Manny Diaz Gets Cowboy Boots from Dallas,
I Hope He Uses One on His City Manager |
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Crossing
Jordan
Commissioner
Barbara Jordan’s Workforce Housing Ordinance Is So Ill-Wrought
Nobody Wants It — Not Even Those It Is Designed For |
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May |
25 |
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Death and
Politics
Dorrin Rolle
Is A Popular Commissioner—Mostly Among Those Who Don’t Live in His
District |
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Roadrageous,
It’s Contagious
If You Think
Beach Commuters Are Rude Now, Wait Until FDOT Tears Into the Flyover |
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An In-Between
Place
Fever Dreams of Reality TV, a
Gepsie Campaign and a Demographics Fetish |
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4 |
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Feeling Crazy?
In Miami, Better Keep the Voices
to Yourself |
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April |
27 |
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Crash Course
In Issues
Ranging From Education to Billboards, What Side Are Lobbyists On?
Answer: Their Own |
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‘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 |
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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 |
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The Bubblegum Revolution
Miami May Ultimately Lose the Marlins, but It Could Gain Something
Else
— a 90-Mile Art Bridge to Cuba |
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March |
30 |
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Mural Morass
How an Industry Got Away With Breaking the Law in Miami |
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Prelude to an Intervention
Some Advice for Miami’s Mayor on
How to End a Dysfunctional Relationship |
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Murray We Hardly Knew Ye
‘Gentleman’ City Attorney Dubbin, 76, Retires; End of an Era |
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February |
23 |
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Talking to an X-Man
Some Perspective on Miami’s Current State of Affairs From Former
Mayor Xavier Suarez |
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My Funny Valentine
A Bike Ride Into Beautiful Downtown Miami
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Parking and the City
Someone Has to Be in Charge of the Constant Challenge That Is Miami
Beach Parking |
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The Miami Circle of Life
When It Comes to Miami, the More Things Change, the More They Stay
the Same |
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January |
26 |
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A Tale of Two Gonzalezes
Or How the City of Miami Really Runs, Despite What the Manager Says |
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The Mis-education of
Miami-Dade Schools
There Is No Easy Fix for Education in Miami-Dade County |
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The Swinging Pendulum
Can a New Law Preserve SoBe’s Entertainment Industry
While Granting Nearby Residents Some Peace and Quiet? |
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| 2005 |
December |
29 |
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Bye Bye 2005
The Year That Was What It Was |
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The G-Forces of County
Politics
Commissioner Carey-Shuler’s Resignation Was Predicted Long Before
She Announced It |
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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. |
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A Ruinous Path
Victor Diaz Is Very Worried About Miami Beach’s Future |
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November |
24 |
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The End of the Line
The Chamber Lounge Ends, the UDB Wavers, the Miami Herald Shrinks,
and Jim DeFede Reinvents Himself |
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Tennis Anyone?
Miami Commissioner’s Aide Favors Green Space Over Clay Courts at
Bryan Park. Many Parents — And the City’s Parks Department —
Disagree. |
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Storm Surge
Or How I Got Rocked in the Hurricane |
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October |
13 |
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Traffic in Paradise
“When bad things happen to good people…The Litigation Center can
help,” opined a flyer from Jackie Woodward. |
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September |
15 |
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Craig’s World
Beyond Sight and Sound, You Have Entered The Internet Zone |
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