Category: Miami-Dade Cities

Feb 28, 2021 5:38 AM

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Dire need for COVID-19 shots adds urgency to Miami homeless advocates’ refrain

By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Civil rights lawyers and activists are agitating for Miami police to stop disrupting homeless people by emptying their camps. It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning in a pandemic.
Jan 28, 2021 5:16 AM

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Lawsuit by former Miami SVU detective targets Chief Colina, controversial police captain

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami Police Capt. Javier Ortiz railroaded a former special victims unit detective by misleading her into believing she was about to be arrested for corruption, according to a recently filed federal lawsuit.
Nov 10, 2020 5:30 AM

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New El Portal mayor’s messy divorce and questions about his qualifying paperwork threaten term

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
El Portal’s newly elected mayor Omarr Nickerson won his race handily after none of the small village’s 2,400 residents ran against him. But his term could be short-lived amid accusations by El Portal officials that Nickerson submitted false, incomplete and inaccurate information in his qualifying paperwork.
Oct 23, 2020 5:32 AM

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Cheating on Miami Beach police exams? Nothing to see here, move on, says county ethics boss

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami Beach cop’s year-long effort to get county ethics officials to investigate credible allegations of cheating and other irregularities with the city’s exam process for promoting police officers has been snubbed.
Oct 1, 2020 5:20 AM

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Biscayne Gardens residents prepare for an unwelcome neighbor

By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Biscayne Gardens, a bedroom neighborhood in unincorporated Miami-Dade between North Miami and North Miami Beach, is about to experience an apartment development boom thanks to a county mandate aimed at transforming vacant land into workforce and affordable housing projects. Area residents aren’t happy about it.
Sep 23, 2020 5:30 AM

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Miami-Dade rock miners continue to blast away with help from Legislature

By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam has lambasted as virtually worthless a new state program to monitor rock blasting in northwestern Miami-Dade in response to residents’ complaints that it reverberates powerfully through nearby homes.