Golf tournament leaving Trump's Doral course for Mexico
Whether desiring more cash or less of Donald Trump, the PGA Tour announced Wednesday it’s yanking its annual star-filled event away from the city of Doral after 55 tournaments.The new location: Mexico City, in a country Trump once stated sent “rapists” to the United States over a border on which Trump wants to build a wall.What began in 1962 as the Doral Country Club Invitational and has been the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship since 2011 will be the World Golf Championships-Mexi..>> view originalGOP taps Miami's Helen Aguirre Ferré as Hispanic communications ...
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As news broke Wednesday that the PGA is moving its 54-year-old golf tournament from Doral to Mexico City, tennis fans may have been wondering: Is the Miami Open next?The prestigious tennis tournament on Key Biscayne, which draws more than 300,000 fans per year, is locked in for March 20-April 2, 2017, but the long-term future of the event is in question because an appeals court decision prevents the Miami Open from upgrading the complex at the Crandon Park Tennis Center.Tournament officials say..>> view originalGovernor declares financial emergency in Opa-locka
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A civil securities fraud case against the city of Miami is coming to a conclusion this summer, nearly seven years after federal investigators began probing a series of questionable accounting maneuvers that temporarily masked a mounting financial crisis at the city.And though evidence suggests Miami officials temporarily shifted highly restricted funds into bleeding operating accounts to mask losses in the late 2000s — all the while assuring bond investors their finances were still rosy — the c..>> view originalMiami No. 2 for startups – but rides in 2nd to last for scale-ups
Miami is fertile ground for rooting startups. Problem is few of them grow up.That was the conclusion of a Kauffman Foundation study and ranking released Thursday that showed that the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area ranked second from the bottom out of 40 metro areas in growth of so-called scale-ups, or fast-growing companies. This comes a year after Miami ranked No. 2 in the nation for startup creation and six months after ranking No. 6 in the nation for small business activity. The new 2016 K..>> view originalPolice clear suspicious item at Miami-Dade's Government Center
Police clear suspicious item at Miami-Dade’s Government Center MIAMI (WSVN) - Police have cleared the scene of a suspicious item at the Miami-Dade County Government Center in Downtown Miami. According to City of Miami Police, the package was found outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center at 111 N.W. 1st Ave., at around 11:15 a.m., Wednesday. Miami-Dade Police and Miami Fire Rescue crews also responded to the scene. According to Miami-Dade officials, a homeless man was seen, around 10:4..>> view original
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Golf tournament leaving Trump's Doral course for Mexico and other top stories.
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