Topic: Miami

Angry voters oust Miami-Dade mayor in special vote

MIAMI (Reuters) - Voters in Miami-Dade, one of the most populous U.S. counties, removed Mayor Carlos Alvarez from office in a special vote on Tuesday triggered by popular anger over a hike in property taxes.With all precincts reporting, official results showed 88 ...

Miami area mayor faces ouster in recall vote

MIAMI (Reuters) - Voters in one of the most populous counties in the United States went to the polls on Tuesday for a recall vote spearheaded by a billionaire anti-tax crusader and aimed at toppling a once-popular Republican mayor.Preliminary results, based on ...

Corrected: Miami area mayor faces ouster in major recall vote

Corrects mayor's age in paragraph 11By Kevin GrayMIAMI (Reuters) - Voters in one of the most populous counties in the United States went to the polls on Tuesday for a recall vote, spearheaded by a billionaire anti-tax crusader, aimed at toppling a ...

Miami area mayor faces ouster in major recall vote

MIAMI (Reuters) - Voters in one of the most populous counties in the United States went to the polls on Tuesday for a recall vote, spearheaded by a billionaire anti-tax crusader, aimed at toppling a once-popular Republican mayor.A recent poll published in ...

For Americans, deficit pain is felt close to home

MIAMI (Reuters) - Christopher O'Neill is worried about the deficit. The deficit, that is, in his personal income after the 26-year-old Miami finance analyst was forced to find a temporary job paying $20,000 a year less than he earned until January when ...
Companies including General Electric and Cisco Systems unveiled a new $200 million " "It's really the biggest commercialization of smart-grid technology," GE ( GE - news - people ) Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said in a phone interview from Miami. Much of ...
First lady Michelle Obama invited a few students, a couple of governors, members of the military and several business leaders to join her for the president's speech Tuesday.The White House released the list of guests who will sit with the first lady ...

Let's Stimulate Smart Highways

The "stimulus" legislation just signed into law by President Obama includes billions of dollars for transportation and infrastructure, with little regard as to whether the projects meet any serious national or regional need other than supposedly creating or " On California State ...
With pet projects banned, lobbyists seek new ways to snag money in stimulus planPresident Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel money to pet projects.They're ...
With pet projects banned, lobbyists seek new ways to snag money in stimulus planPresident Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel money to pet projects.They're ...
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