Miami

Big Brother is Buzzing You

28 March 2008 - 5:00am
Reuters

Miami may be the first American city to have its police force adopt Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to aid police in fighting crime, a development civil liberties groups are finding disconcerting.

Miami in a Vice

16 March 2008 - 7:00am
Globe & Mail

In Miami, speculators inflated the housing market by buying and flipping condos. Now with the market deflating and a host of condo towers still under construction, Miami may be the worst major real estate market in the world.

'Vultures' Descend on Cheapened Properties

10 March 2008 - 5:00am
The Wall Street Journal

Housing price drops in cities like Miami have "vulture-like" buyers swooping in to snatch up properties.

Cycling The Contours of Miami

9 September 2007 - 4:01pm

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway