Category: Issues

Aug 4, 2016 5:51 AM

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Owners at South Beach’s Shelborne fight $30 million assessments, foreclosure

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For the past four years, about 40 investors and snowbirds who own 42 rooms in a landmark oceanfront art deco hotel have been locked in a pitched court battle with one of Miami Beach’s most politically connected families to keep their units.
Jul 22, 2016 5:16 AM

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Secret U.S. Marshals’ report ID’d security weaknesses at Broward courthouse before escape

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
A confidential U.S. Marshals’ security assessment for the Broward County Courthouse exposed numerous weaknesses in the building’s security system four years before last week’s scandalous escape of a 21-year-old murder suspect.
Jul 19, 2016 5:13 AM

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28 pages connect Saudi prince to al Qaeda leader, supporters of 9/11 hijackers

By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The Saudi ambassador who met with President George W. Bush at the White House two days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 had connections to a major al-Qaeda figure and other Saudis suspected of helping two of the suicide hijackers while they were in the United States.
Jul 17, 2016 5:19 AM

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U.S. Rep. Graham asks Gov. Scott to call special session on Lake O crisis

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
In a sharply worded rebuke of Rick Scott, U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham (D-FL) urged the governor to call a special legislative session to deal with the toxic algae bloom discharges from Lake Okeechobee threatening the state’s ecosystem as well as the tourism and fishing industries.
Jul 5, 2016 5:23 AM

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Miami-Dade Commission to vote on multi-million dollar Liberty Square redevelopment

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Three years after taking over the affordable-housing division of a scandalous company that defrauded $26 million from the federal government, Atlantic Pacific Communities is still dealing with the fallout.
Jun 29, 2016 5:29 AM

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IKEA agrees to massive recall of chests linked to tipover deaths of young children

By Brian Joseph
FairWarning
IKEA, the home furnishings giant, announced Tuesday that it is recalling about 180 models of chests and dressers that it admitted do not meet voluntary industry safety standards, including the popular MALM-style dresser, which has killed three children by tipping over and falling on them.