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by Mark Silva Check your list for the reasons that Al Gore lost Florida by a disputed 537 votes in 2000, and with it, after 36 days of court battles over Florida's hanging, dimpled and pregnant chads that ended in......

The trial finished up Wednesday, but the timetable for stadium construction got even murkier. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jeri Beth Cohen listened to closing arguments on whether a $515 million ballpark at the site of the Orange Bowl serves a ???paramount......

The Marlins weren???t commenting today, but you know they have to pleased the Florida Supreme Court revised its opinion in the Strand v. Escambia County case from a year ago and ruled that bonds could be issued on large public......

Greetings, Owl Country, on this fine Sunday morning. For three of the past four weeks this has been a Travel-Day-Following-A-Beatdown. But thankfully I am home today, and won???t be getting on a plane until Monday. Schedule note: FAU will......

Miami City Commissioners reconvened, but are no closer to a deal. Their meeting has devolved into political chaos. In responding to Commissioner Marc Sarnoff???s proposals to cover extra costs of parking garages and to turn over naming rights and any........

The Miami City Commission deadlocked on 2-2 vote to move forward with a plan to finance a $515 million ballpark for the Marlins, meaning the deal died. (Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones, on maternity leave, is absent). But the commission has just......

More than 25 members of the public are signed up to speak at Miami City Hall in favor or against a new ballpark for the Marlins. The debate has become less about the use of public money for the $515......

As my regular readers know, I gave up handicapping whether the ballpark project will happen several years ago. I have been covering this for too many years and seen too many bizarre things ??? especially Friday???s Miami City Commission meeting......

(This posting has changed since it was was originally posted.) by Frank James Even as President Barack Obama told the nation's mayors they now have a friend in the White House, he warned that he would use the "full power"......

There are clocks around the Marlins offices at Land Shark Stadium that count down the days until April 1, 2012. That's when the team's new ballpark is expected to open. Saturday was a significant day. Less than 12 hours after......

Three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves wasn't quite sure what to think when he was approached about being grand marshal of the Great Grove Bed Race -- the revival of the traditional bed races through Miami's Coconut Grove. It's not......

Happy Halloween, folks. Here is an customized FAU pumpkin carved by the Bartels family. - - Had the annual Burning Of The Pumpkin Seeds in the Hutton household last night. Didn???t set off the smoke alarms this year, which......