@ArmandoSalguero The Miami Herald I still work for has about 70 journalists, compared to the 350 when I started. We can't cover most cities, including NM, NMB, Hialeah, Homestead to find waste. This is what happens when you cut budgets relentlessly. Remember this when you need a cop or teacher.
R. Fred Lewis, one of the last liberal lions of the Florida Supreme Court, whose youth as a coal miner’s son and devotion to a daughter born with severe disabilities engendered an abiding concern for the unpowerful and unprotected, died on Tuesday.
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“This case is very simple,” lead Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean McLaughlin told jurors during closing arguments. “This is a case about greed, arrogance and power.”
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Congrats to the staffs of the @MiamiHerald and @WLRN for being honored as @PulitzerPrizes finalists in Local Reporting. Read the investigation on Brightline and listen to the podcast here: https://t.co/Yw9oAt9ItE
HOA president used her position as a personal ATM.
She also used association money to go after enemies, police say, ordering the community’s security to “harass” rival association members. Epilogue to reporting by @lrobertsonmiami@GrethelAguila
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Adopted children are promised ‘forever homes.’ An Associated Press investigation finds that many are quietly institutionalized in for-profit facilities instead. https://t.co/NqGu25Aqef
The likely SSI cut will affect not just younger adults with disabilities such as Down syndrome and severe autism who are still living at home with their low-income parents, but also older people with health or financial problems who have had to move in with their adult children.
New: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. https://t.co/c6jfo6Nz57
Gamaly Hollis, who served nearly a year in jail for violating a judge’s order to stay away from the Miami-Dade police officer who shot and killed her son, has been cleared of lingering charges that could have sent her back to jail.
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BREAKING: A Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge has ruled in favor of a cancer patient whose health insurer refused to cover a recurring $48,500 cancer treatment that could save his life. Via @MiamiHerald https://t.co/solsx6ImgQ
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.
Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
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