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Owlcatraz: Students Resist FAU Selling Out to Private Prison

Stephanie McMillan — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:12:24 +0000

GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) is a private firm that runs more than a hundred for-profit prisons and youth and immigrant detention facilities, in which captives are beaten and raped. One judge called one of their juvenile jails in Mississippi “a cesspool of unconstitutional and inhuman acts and conditions.” The GEO Group runs three facilities in [...]

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Danation: You! Yes, YOU! Help Bring an American Home From Iran

Dan Sweeney — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:42:33 +0000

Look, I don’t ask much of you, America. And I certainly don’t have a whole lot of faith in our nation’s government to do the right thing anymore. The administration and Congress can’t seem to get their act together on some of the most basic functions of governance, much less sticky, contentious problems like gun [...]

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Danation: Farewell to Daniel Inouye, the Senate’s President Pro Tempore — and Its Biggest Badass

Dan Sweeney — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:59:04 +0000

Among all the talk of fiscal cliffs and shootings, the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii on Monday didn’t reach the level of newsworthiness to which it was perhaps due. Following the death of Sen. Robert Byrd in 2010, Sen. Inouye became the longest-serving member of the Senate’s majority party, and thus the Senate [...]

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Donate to Give Miami Day and Help Expose Children to More Books

Shannon Sharpe — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:19:28 +0000

As Mortimer J. Adler wrote in the preface of the 1972 version of his classic How to Read a Book, “the educators of the country have acknowledged that teaching the young to read, in the most elementary sense of that word, is our paramount educational problem.” It’s been 40 years since that revised guide was published, [...]

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Will the Real Eco-Terrorists Please Stand Up?

Stephanie McMillan — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:16:47 +0000

After being on the run for years, facing charges of conspiracy and multiple acts of arson, Rebecca Rubin turned herself in to U.S. law enforcement on the morning of Nov. 29. She is accused of belonging to Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front for several years starting in the mid-1990s. The FBI labeled both ELF and ALF “terrorist [...]

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Danation: There Will Be 11 State Constitutional Amendments on the Ballot This November. You Should Vote No on All of Them.

Dan Sweeney — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:30:57 +0000

Right, I’m going to just get right into this because we have a lot of ground to cover. In the decade or so I have been covering Florida politics, I cannot ever remember so many state constitutional amendments being on the ballot. So let’s just run through all of them and I’ll explain to you [...]

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Pompano Beach Producer Numonics Pays Homage to Fiona Apple with “SMOKINGAPPLE”

Monica Uszerowicz — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:00:53 +0000

The release of Fiona Apple’s fourth album, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, was a reminder to people like me — people who love her visible combination of emotional fortitude and fragility — of what she was like [...]

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Extreme Makeover Miami: Marine Stadium Needs $30 Million to Be Awesomest Venue Ever

Sean Piccoli — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:12:31 +0000

When Hurricane Andrew tore through Southern Florida 20 years ago this week, one of its casualties was a structure that survived the storm but not the aftermath: Marine Stadium, a towering grandstand with a sail-like concrete roof and the waters of Virginia Key for a stage, withstood Andrew but was quickly declared unsafe by its [...]

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