As you may have read on this blog, the Lennar Corporation is seeking approval from the County to build 7,000 new homes in their proposed mega development Parkland. At a time when the Miami-Dade housing market has already reported 59,798 pre-foreclosures in the first nine-months of 2008, why is there […]

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The Associated Press reports: “Democrat Barack Obama on Friday won endorsements from two unlikely newspapers - the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.
While the Tribune is the largest daily in Obama’s hometown, the publication hasn’t backed a Democrat in its 161-year history. And the Times hasn’t endorsed a presidential candidate since 1972, when […]

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ST. PETERSBURG — Hazel Van Denburg’s journey to Game 6 of the ALCS began at 10 a.m. this morning, when she left her Brooksville home.
It ended with 94 steps into the highest section of Tropicana Field, to seats so bad that the Rays management wouldn’t even sell them when the team made the playoffs for […]

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Gov. Charlie Crist threw out the first pitch at tonight’s Rays-Red Sox game in St. Pete.
Despite earlier fears, he made it over the plate without a bounce in the dirt. "It’s a challenge, you know," he told reporters before walking onto the mound.
"This is going to be a great night, it’ll be a great […]

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 6PMBooks and Books, Coral Gables
DEXTER FILKINS, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Like no other book, The Forever War (Knopf, $25) allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors […]

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