Reopening Miami-Dade public schools began as a game of “ifs.” If positive cases trend downward for 14 days. If testing for asymptomatic minors becomes widely available and expeditious. If at least 25% of a school’s student body opts to stay home, then the rest can go to the schoolhouse. But […]
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Miami men with Ukrainian political ties laundered money, DOJ says
The Department of Justice filed civil forfeiture complaints this week in Miami federal court accusing two Ukrainian oligarchs and their Miami-based associates of stealing money abroad and laundering it in the United States by moving it through a Ukrainian-owned bank and into Miami companies operating as “slush funds” for real […]
Herman Cain dies; Trump suggests delaying election; Miami schools defy Gov. DeSantis and go online-only
President Trump suggested delaying the November election Thursday, saying reliance on mail-in voting due to the pandemic would be “inaccurate and fraudulent.” The Commerce Department issued a record-breaking report of the U.S. economy, announcing that the gross domestic product contracted at a staggering seasonally adjusted annual rate of 32.9% in the April-June period. […]
Trump suggests delaying election; Miami schools defy Gov. DeSantis, go online-only; FDA sets at-home test rules
The Commerce Department issued a record-breaking report of the U.S. economy on Thursday, a day after the nation’s death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 150,000. The U.S. gross domestic product contracted at a staggering seasonally adjusted annual rate of 32.9% in the April-June period. In Florida, reeling from rising daily death reports, the state’s largest school district announced that […]
‘A day of hope.’ Pence visits Miami for launch of COVID vaccine trial.
With President Donald Trump’s poll numbers flagging in Florida and the state continuing to struggle with one of the nation’s highest rates of new COVID-19 cases, Vice President Mike Pence visited the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine on Monday to focus attention on one of the pandemic’s few […]
TV ‘trailblazer’ Ed Ansin, who helped change the flavor of news, dies in Miami at 84
A leader. A philanthropist. And a trailblazer who changed the television news industry forever. Those are the words anchors, reporters and producers are using to describe Ed Ansin, owner of South Florida’s WSVN-Channel 7 in Miami. Ansin died Sunday at 84. “Far from a hands off owner, Ed Ansin walked […]
Miami Book Fair’s Writers Institute back with stellar lineup … virtually
When faced with the decision of how to present this year’s Writers Institute, director Marci Cancio-Bello, who is also program coordinator of the Miami Book Fair, knew the decision would be to move forward somehow. “Instead of canceling the event altogether, we wanted to consider moving it online,” said Cancio-Bello. […]
Oolite Arts commissions microfilms to tell stories of COVID in Miami
The question: In this time of coronavirus, when creativity is under forced constraint because of social distancing and other restrictions, how can you take that concept and use it as an advantage, if you must, to make art? The answer: Make films that reveal slices of life in Miami during […]