Category: Homestead
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Florida farmworkers brace for more needless tragedy after state fails to protect them and a scorching summer looms
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Gov. Ron DeSantis made news last week by enshrining climate change denial in state law, just as 2024 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, meaning Floridians can expect a hyperactive hurricane season starting June 1.
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New Florida immigration law slammed for trapping indispensable migrant farmworkers in a field of fear
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org As Florida’s governor tries to demonize and evict immigrants – once even shipping them to an island off Massachusetts – farmworker advocates are fighting back in Miami federal court.
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Red light ticket? Enforcement depends on where you got it and how you try to resolve it
By Susannah Nesmith FloridaBulldog.org Miami-Dade Traffic Magistrate Christopher Benjamin played a series of dramatic videos of crashes caught on tape by red-light cameras. The people in the audience gasped each time someone t-boned a car, flipped over a railing, struck a motorcyclist or nearly plowed through a line of kids crossing the street. “Ladies and…
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Miami-Dade prosecutors, state agents investigate police chief, internal affairs officers
By Francisco Alvarado BrowardBulldog.org Miami-Dade prosecutors and state law enforcement agents are investigating Homestead Police Chief Al Rolle’s alleged participation in an elaborate scheme to hide and destroy public records requested by an officer he terminated, BrowardBulldog.org has learned.