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Money doesn’t buy happiness: While six baseball teams spent more than $2 million per victory and didn’t make the playoffs, the Tampa Bay Rays have once again made the most of their small budget, getting 100 wins in the regular season with a $70.8 …
By John Dorschner
Miamiwebnews.com
FINALLY — 11 days after the formal ceremony celebrating the change — and more than four months after it became a legal entity on state roads in Miami-Dade — the name of the great anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman was unveiled on West Dixie on Wednesday.
At…
By John Dorschner
Miamiwebnews.com
TEN days after the formal ceremony celebrating the road — and more than four months after the Harriet Tubman Highway became a legal entity on state roads in Miami-Dade — the name of the great anti-slavery activist remains shrouded in black plastic on West Dixie.
Why…
By John Dorschner
Miamiwebnews.com
NOTE: See end of story for Miami Herald correction.
A week after a Harriet Tubman Highway sign was unveiled on South Dixie, the media continues to bungle and blur what happened.
That includes TV and print. A Herald editorial rightly congratulated those who pushed to get…
By John Dorschner
MiamiWebNews.com
More than FIVE days after Harriet Tubman Highway was formally dedicated, black plastic still covers the sign on West Dixie at NE 119th Street.
The dedication was Saturday at 11 a.m. by the Vizcaya Metrorail Station on South Dixie in toney Coconut Grove. About a dozen…
By John Dorschner
Finally, four months after it became official, political leaders on Saturday did the formal unveiling of the Harriet Tubman Highway sign on South Dixie.
Several speakers talked about the “name change,” but in fact Dixie Highway still stretches for several dozen miles in north and south Miami-Dade…
By John Dorschner
Twenty years after 9/11, we have to ask: What the hell did America gain by its global wars on terror?
About 900,000 died in the global battles — mostly in Afghanistan and Iraq. That includes more than 350,000 civilians, according to Brown University’s Cost of War studies.
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By John Dorschner
Here’s a way that Miami-Dade and many other urban areas can find a no-expense method of providing more affordable housing, create less traffic and build a more walkable city.
Earlier this month, St. Paul in Minnesota has become the latest to take the radical step of eliminating…
Why Afghanistan Reminds Me of Cuba
By John Dorschner
Of course, being a Miamian, I’m thinking of Cuba as I watch the Taliban take over Afghanistan.
The United States spent at least $82 billion in training the Afghan government army and giving it the best possible weapons. As the Washington…
By John Dorschner
A tiny step in the biggest political battle in America happened in July in a shed-like building housing the Tap Rock Brewing Company in St. Croix Falls, Wis., population 1,943.
