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...morning, even as he was about to pilot the 10:38 a.m. flight. Hughes' was .084. Miami airport guards say the two got verbally abusive when they were not allowed to take their cups of Starbucks coffee past a security checkpoint. The guards tipped off airline agents and Miami-Dade County police, who stopped the Airbus as it was being pushed away from the gate...
...prove himself. Gong was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives from Dade County in 1963 in an election that, he recalls, many had said he “didn’t have a Chinaman’s chance of winning...
There is some evidence that black students are more likely to wind up in the dragnet. A study being released this fall by the Advancement Project, a Washington-based advocacy group, reports that black students, although they made up just 30% of the population of Miami-Dade County public schools in 2000-01, accounted for half the school arrests in that district. Says Judith Browne, senior attorney with the project: "This is no different from what happens on the street, only now it's school administrators abusing authority...
...already being run out of the U.S. Attorney's office in New York. But last Friday he called a hearing on a nine-year-old Florida case involving a former local official who says he was abused by investigators working for Janet Reno, then the chief prosecutor of Miami-Dade County. The alleged victim fled to Australia after being cited for contempt of court, maybe because his car theft report wasn't what he'd claimed and there was a lot more sex (for hire) and drugs involved than he'd intended to reveal. Burton's staff wrote its report...
...Portland is undeterred, however--pointing out that its European partners, which were spared such demographic shifts, have had success with similar strategies. The city is taking a second look at its own program and revising it as necessary. Efforts are also under way in other U.S. localities, including Miami-Dade County, which eliminated 900 tons of greenhouse emissions a year simply by establishing exclusive bus lanes...