Just when you think Miami politics can t get any more dramatic, the city s leaders always seem to have a way of one-upping themselves. Take, for instance, City of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, who has apparently been entertaining thoughts of seceding from Miami-Dade County after a feud about. street blockades.
This past weekend, Miami-Dade County and the City of Miami butted heads over a set of streets in Silver Bluff, a Miami neighborhood north of Coconut Grove and east of Coral Gables. The city recently placed concrete barriers on five side streets in Silver Bluff to prevent cars from using the neighborhood to circumvent heavy traffic on nearby Coral Way, but the county forcibly removed the barriers, igniting an intense feud.
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Homestead, United States, Feb 25 (efe-epa).- With signs of frustration and disgust, activist groups asked President Joe Biden’s government Thursday not to follow in the footsteps of Donald Trump, and reject reopening the Homestead detention center for undocumented minors in southeast Florida.
In front of the city’s municipality headquarters, activists acknowledged their disbelief in repeating a request made two years ago, when the center with a capacity for 1,200 minors became “a symbol” of the strict immigration policies during the Republican’s term.
“It is not the right way to handle this situation,” said Thomas Kennedy of United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth network in the US, who argued for the reunification of minors with relatives in their country or sending them to host families instead of taking them to a center that “looks like a military base.”
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The daily rundown Between Tuesday and Wednesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 7,128 (nearly 0.4 percent), to 1,885,661; active hospitalizations went down by 121 (nearly 2.9 percent), to 4,077; deaths of Florida residents rose by 127 (0.4 percent), to 30,340; 2,792,118 Floridians have at least one dose of the vaccine.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to protect Miami-Dade coast from flooding and storm surge ongoing
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MIAMI – The Army Corps of Engineers is working on a project to fortify the Miami-Dade County coast from sea level rise and storm surge.
The project is in dispute, particularly their idea of a large concrete flood wall. At stake are billions of dollars, but local leaders are continuing to work to find a balance.
“Elevating about 5800 structures and flooding proofing some 4600 non-residential commercial buildings,” explained U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District Commander Col. Patrick Kinsman.
One sticking point has been a proposed flood wall running parallel to Miami’s waterfront, a looming concrete structure that some local city and business leaders have argued would sink property values.