Category: City of Miami
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A tale of enduring friendship: dementia and Miami’s true-crime reporting queen Edna Buchanan
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org This is a story about a 43-year friendship surviving amid turbulent times. After a dozen years at the helm, Rick Hirsch who retired as Miami Herald managing editor in December 2021, but he did not relinquish his concern for a talented former colleague: Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and multi-book…
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Radio Loco: A Miami reporter’s journal
By Kirk Nielsen FloridaBulldog.org Radio Mambí’s sale comes amid fresh scrutiny of the role of AM radio in sewing misinformation, mistrust.
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Transportation moguls fueling Miami-Dade political campaigns in line for $9 million no-bid contract extension
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org A private transportation company with politically astute owners and a troublesome track record could score a $9 million no-bid extension on an expired Miami-Dade contract to operate more than two dozen bus routes.
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Landlord aims to evict Liberty City free clinic, food pantry after complaints about collapsed ceiling at their rental
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org A corporate landlord is trying to evict a Miami medical clinic, food pantry and community center that complained when a big chunk of their ceiling caved in.
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Bankruptcy filings, financial woes dog surprise Miami commission candidate Jeffrey Watson
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org During the 2010s, Miami City Commissioner Jeffrey Watson was twice unsuccessful in securing bankruptcy protection, fell behind on more than $1 million on his home mortgage, couldn’t pay a $129,284 civil judgment and owed $26,933 in income tax to the Internal Revenue Service. Now, the former Bill Clinton White House aide…
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A developer’s ‘monster’ comes to Miami’s tree-lined Silver Bluff Estates
By Francisco Alvarado FloridaBulldog.org Maureen McCarthy’s days of quietly relaxing in her lush backyard’s pool and Jacuzzi are numbered. Thanks to Miami 21, the 12-year-old rewrite of the city’s zoning code, the Miami Dade College professor now has to live with a four-story apartment building full of tenants hovering over her two-bedroom house…