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Axios
3 days ago
- Business
- Axios
A $110K salary is needed to afford rent in the Miami area
You have to make nearly $110,000 per year to afford the typical monthly rent in the Miami metropolitan area, according to a new report. Why it matters: That's about 54% higher than what a Miami-area household would have needed to earn five years ago, per the analysis from Zillow. It's also about $10,000 more than the income needed to afford the typical rent nationwide, Zillow found. What they did: Zillow assumed that rent should take up no more than 30% of household income — a common standard for calculating affordability. Zoom in: By that measure, affording the typical Miami area-rent — which came in at $2,749 in April — requires an annual income of $109,962. That's the seventh-highest income needed among the dozens of U.S. metros analyzed by Zillow.
Toronto Star
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Star
Trump's immigration crackdown unnerves Cuban exiles long shielded from deportation
MIAMI (AP) — Immigration officials said Tomás Hernández worked in high-level posts for Cuba's foreign intelligence agency for decades before migrating to the United States to pursue the American dream. The 71-year-old was detained by federal agents outside his Miami-area home in March and accused of hiding his ties to Cuba's Communist Party when he obtained permanent residency.
Miami Herald
23-05-2025
- Health
- Miami Herald
See how these people are conquering their health challenges in Florida
South Florida See how these people are conquering their health challenges in Florida Florida residents are confronting serious health challenges with support from medical teams, community groups and new technology. Outreach workers from the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust provide water and cooling supplies to those most affected by the city's record heat, while WeCount! advocates for better protections for outdoor workers. Survivors of recent hurricanes in Miami face invisible mental health hurdles, as experts from virtual platforms like Nema Health teach people to recognize and treat PTSD through talk therapies such as cognitive processing therapy. Meanwhile, stroke survivors find renewed hope with Miami's first use of nerve stimulation devices, which help patients regain movement years after their initial injury. Across these tough situations, Miami's residents and organizations work to adapt, recover and support each other. Arlet Lara, the first patient in South Florida to get an FDA-approved nerve stimulation implant, does an exercise while Neil Batungbakal, rehabilitation therapist, activates the implant with the black trigger during her physical therapy appointment on Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, at Lynn Rehabilitation Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The activation works as positive reinforcement to her muscles when she completes the exercise correctly. NO. 1: A STROKE CHANGED A MIAMI TEACHER'S LIFE. HOW A NEW ELECTRICAL DEVICE IS HELPING HER MOVE What to know about how it works. | Published November 18, 2024 | Read Full Story by Michelle Marchante Jean Wilfred, 70, enjoys a bottle of water as the outreach team from the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust handed out bottles of water to individuals living on the street on Aug. 1, 2024, in Miami, Florida, during a period of sweltering heat. By Carl Juste NO. 2: 'WE NEED WATER.' HOW SOUTH FLORIDA GROUPS ARE HELPING THOSE HARDEST HIT BY EXTREME HEAT Miami-area nonprofits are helping those most vulnerable to the extreme heat South Florida is facing. | Published October 30, 2024 | Read Full Story by Mimi Whitefield Juan Jose Muñoz (left) and Elvin Antonio Urbina walk with her belongings through the flooded N 15th St in North Tampa, Thursday, October 10, 2024, a day after Hurricane Milton crossed Florida's Gulf Coast. By Pedro Portal NO. 3: FLORIDIAN HURRICANE SURVIVORS COULD BE SUFFERING FROM PTSD—BUT RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE After a tumultuous hurricane season, an expert says Floridians should look out for symptoms of PTSD. | Published November 27, 2024 | Read Full Story by Denise Hruby The summary above was drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists in our News division. All stories listed were reported, written and edited by McClatchy journalists.
Miami Herald
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Cote: Florida Panthers' joy ride continues in 5-0 road mastery, 2-0 East finals lead as Carolina reels
'The Happiest Team in America' continues to lift South Florida as it deep-freezes opponents in its path. The Florida Panthers are on the greatest stretch we have seen in Miami-area sports since the Heat's Big 3 era produced four straight NBA finals and two championships from 2010 to 2014. It will take 16 playoff victories for the Cats to win a second straight Stanley Cup, and they're 10 wins in now with Thursday night's 5-0 victory at Carolina in Game 2 of the NHL's Eastern Conference finals. Teams up 2-0 in hockey playoff history have won the series 86.1% of the time, and now the Panthers head home to the Sunrise barn for games Saturday and Monday. Florida swept Carolina in the 2023 East finals. Can they do it again? The Hurricanes on Thursday lost a 14th consecutive conference final game, so they made need a pick axe and a miner's helmet to dig deep enough to locate any confidence. Carolina looks overmatched — embarrassed — in this series, outscored 10-2 in the two games, as Florida continues not just winning, but having fun on the way. Florida is now on a 7-2 run on road playoff games, and by a 22-4 goals margin in the past seven. It was a couple weeks shy of 40 years ago when the late great Miami Hurricanes baseball coach Ron Fraser coined 'The Happiest Team in America' to describe his 1985 College World Series-winning group. For the first time since it's time to unearth the phrase for a South Florida team. Sports Business Journal on Wednesday named the reigning Cup-champion Panthers the national 'Sports Team of the Year' for March 2024 through February '25, an honor that encompasses accomplishment both on and off the playing field, in this case ice. And so much of that success, both ways, is the culture of camaraderie and an emphasis on fun amid the pressure — a we-are-family vibe instilled when general manager Bill Zito and coach Paul Maurice took over. The mood is light even when the task is heavy. 'Pressure is made up. It's a lot of noise, media attention,' Brad Marchand says. 'Pressure is something you can embrace or something you can be nervous about. This is why you work your whole life, to be in a position to have success. That excites you to wanna be a difference-maker, to want to be a hero. That's when the pressure just kind of slides off.' A late-season trade from Boston left Marchand trying to fit in with a team that once hated him. That team made it easy. 'I can't say enough about the organization or the group,' he said. 'Their culture is incredible.' This franchise treats its players right and the players respond. The roster is tailor-made with two kinds of fit the prerequisite. 'The thing our management group does the best is find guys who can fit in the room and fit our style of play,' Maurice said Wednesday, the order there intentional. Led by the example of captain Aleksander Barkov, there is no caste system evident, no star-system in attitude. Matthew Tkachuk and Marchand are equal teammates with the guys on the fourth line. 'That's all Barkov,' says Maurice. 'Tkachuk and Brad, too, they're just one of the guys in the room.' That's how Maurice explains Florida's 7-2 record on the road this postseason. 'You are at an emotional deficit [on the road],' he said. 'You get that emotion from the bench, from the guys supporting an encouraging each other. The players are running the bench.' Befitting that, the entire Panthers' depth chart is producing in these playoffs, the goals coming from all over the roster, all over the ice, as steady Sergei Bobrovsky protects the Cats' net in a masterful 'Playoff Bob' sequel. He has now allowed only six goals in the past six playoff games. The Panthers led 1-0 Thursday just 77 seconds into Game 2 in a start straight out of a nightmare for Canes coach Rod Brind'Amour as Gustav Forsling put in a snap shot that turned Raleigh quiet. The setup was from Tkachuk as Forsling became the 18th different Cat and eighth different defensemen to score a goal this postseason. 'The team that loses the first game will come out with the hardest push possible,' Maurice had said. Instead it was Florida's fast start that had Carolina on its skate-heels. Cats made it 2-0 mid-first on a Tkachuk tip-in from Carter Verhaeghe — Tkachuk ending a nine-game goal drought this postseason. Sam Bennett's tip-in made it 3-0 later in the first on a power play, with Verhaeghe also part of the assault on Carolina's blue half moon. The Panthers given a man advantage in this series is like Jeff Bezos getting a raise. The scoring sequence followed a lovely Bobrovsky save on a short-handed odd-man rush — the Cats firing on all cylinders. It took only five shots on goal for Florida to cash those three scores. Florida caught a break 51 seconds into the second period when an apparent goal by Sebastian Aho was negated by offside after a Panthers timeout and a smart coach's challenge by Maurice. I thought the overturn was justified but yet a close and perhaps debatable call. A bit of luck flew with Maurice's challenge. Bennett's second goal of the night and NHL-high ninth of the playoffs made it 4-0 in the final minute of the second period. Verhaeghe's big night continued with a wrap-around shot/pass that Bennett stuck in. Florida had a modest 15 shots on goal through two periods but Carolina had a meager seven. Frustrated Hurricanes fans were chanting, 'Shoot the puck!' The third period would bring no relief, or hope, to Carolina. The most notable shot was the one Marchand took to flatten Shayne Gostisbehere for the intentional puck he'd aimed at Marchand in Game 1. The other one was Barkov's redirect of an Aaron Ekblad shot that made the 5-0 final. 'We want to get greedy,' Panthers defenseman Seth Jones had said Thursday before the puck dropped. 'We want to come in here and not be just OK because we won the first one. We want to put their backs to the wall.' Consider it done. The Cats' joy ride chugs on, strengthening,
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ron DeSantis' anti-drag law in Florida loses in court (yes, again)
Ahead of his ill-fated presidential campaign, Gov. Ron DeSantis invested quite a bit of time expressing his contempt for drag shows, so it didn't come as much of a surprise a couple of years ago when the Florida Republican signed a measure empowering the state to penalize businesses that allow minors to attend drag performances. Soon after, a federal court blocked the state from enforcing the anti-drag law, concluding that Florida already had laws against obscene performances. 'Rather, this statute is specifically designed to suppress the speech of drag queen performers,' U.S. District Court Judge Gregory A. Presnell wrote. DeSantis denounced the injunction as 'dead wrong' and vowed to appeal. As the Miami-area NBC affiliate reported, that hasn't turned out well for the governor. Describing the law as 'substantially overbroad,' a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a preliminary injunction blocking a 2023 Florida law aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows. A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, backed the Central Florida venue Hamburger Mary's in a First Amendment challenge to the law. The majority opinion said that 'by providing only vague guidance as to which performances it prohibits, the act (the law) wields a shotgun when the First Amendment allows a scalpel at most.' 'The Constitution demands specificity when the state restricts speech,' Judges Robin Rosenbaum and Nancy Abudu explained. 'Requiring clarity in speech regulations shields us from the whims of government censors. And the need for clarity is especially strong when the government takes the legally potent step of labeling speech 'obscene.' An 'I know it when I see it' test would unconstitutionally empower those who would limit speech to arbitrarily enforce the law. But the First Amendment empowers speakers instead. Yet Florida's Senate Bill 1438 (the law) takes an 'I know it when I see it' approach to regulating expression.' Time will tell whether DeSantis bothers to take his chances with yet another appeal, but let's not forget that the governor already tried once to get the U.S. Supreme Court to undo the district court's injunction. That didn't work, even if Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch publicly dissented at the time. This article was originally published on
