PINELLAS COUNTY – Hundreds of area residents who worked at a 97-acre highly classified General Electric facility in Largo that once manufactured atomic and hydrogen bomb components today suffer from cancer and other disorders, affecting the lungs, skin and internal organs. Editor’s note: This is the first segment of a two-part series that continues next […]

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I found this interesting website on global warming art. The site was founded by Robert A. Rohde as an extension of his hobby for playing with climate data and sharing his understanding by contributing content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The site was created in mid 2006, “to allow the science of climate change to […]

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Warren Buffett is the closest we have to a clean-up hitter in the US economy. He would chuckle at the description, but there is more than madness to it. Berkshire Hathaway, the company he built with his partner Charlie Munder, defied recent palpitations of the US equity markets for reasons that became clearer yesterday. […]

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On such a dreary day, I decided to talk about a really depressing thing in South Florida that I believe can’t be fixed. I was, early in my do-gooder phase, going to help the elderly in nursing homes. I realized in no time, there is no place I would rather not be. I now have […]

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If you expected that Amy Serrano’s film, “The Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers in the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic” would be exhibited at the upcoming Miami International Film Festival, you would be wrong.
The question: why did the Miami Film Festival, scheduled to air the expose of brutal living […]

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Recent examples of apparent mortgage fraud (dredged up by our blog, eyeonmiami.blogspot.com, through an analysis of publicly available data) show that gaming big lending institutions is still a victimless crime so long as everyone gets a slice of the vig.
We’re not sure who gets paid off or how the fraud is tolerated by banks: those […]

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