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• From Poder magazine, April/May 2013  A ...

  From Poder magazine, April/May 2013
    A Message from Garcia
  A die-hard dialoguero pushes for more people-to-people contact -- in the U.S. House of Representatives
  
  By Kirk Nielsen
  
  I recently snagged South Florida’s first Cuban Democrat in Congress, Joe Garcia, by cellphone as he drove to the [...]
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• From Poder magazine, February/March 2013For the ...

  From Poder magazine, February/March 2013
  For the Birds
  A push by home builders to reclassify the endangered wood story serves only to highlight southern Florida's wetlands crisisBy Kirk Nielsen
  
  Southeastern Florida has been in hospitable lately not only for Republican presidential candidates but also for another endangered species: the [...]
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• From Poder Magazine, December 2012  The ...

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  From Poder Magazine, December 2012 
  The Immigrant's Tale
  The Zola-inspired novel of the season seems equal parts probe of Homo Miamians and candy-colored word-map of Tom Wolfe’s gifted mind 
   
  By Kirk Nielsen
   
  This fall, while nervously awaiting a review copy of Tom Wolfe’s new 704-page novel, [...]
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• From Poder Magazine, Oct/Nov 2012 Life ...

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  From Poder Magazine, Oct/Nov 2012
  Life and Casualty
  Ask not what your public hospitals can do for you but whether you have enough hospital days left for a life-saving procedure
  
  By Kirk Nielsen
  
  Your name is not Jim Kuhn but if it were you’d have died [...]
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• Updated from Poder Magazine, June/July 2012 Bright ...

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  Updated from Poder Magazine, June/July 2012 
  Bright Lights, Bad City
  At Miami’s city hall, massive flashing billboards replace video slot machines as the boldest new idea for municipal finance.
  
  By Kirk Nielsen
  
  For a long time I wondered what the Miami Parking Authority could possibly have to do [...]
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• From Poder magazine, April-May 2012   All Quiet on ...

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  From Poder magazine, April-May 2012   All Quiet on the Little Havana Front 
  Cuban music performances are being met with serious doldrums — and that’s good.
  By Kirk Nielsen  Just as a cigar is sometimes just a cigar, so can a concert be simply a concert. This has not usually been [...]
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• From Poder Magazine, Oct-Nov 2011 Turbine ...

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  From Poder Magazine, Oct-Nov 2011
  Turbine or not Turbine
  Twenty years since Denmark became the king of wind power, Florida’s clean energy story remains a tale of woe
   
  by Kirk Nielsen
  I spent much of August quite literally chilling in Denmark and returned to muggy Miami with a [...]
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• From Poder Magazine, Aug-Sep 2011Quality of ...

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  From Poder Magazine, Aug-Sep 2011
  Quality of Vice
  Voters may not have known it, but the recent mayoral election was kind of a referendum on illegal gambling
  by Kirk Nielsen
  I pulled the lever for him, but I’m not sure I’d put money on Carlos Gimenez’s chances for success. To [...]
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• Orlando Bosch, in memoriam

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  Perhaps it will suffice to say, I did not know Orlando Bosch well, hardly at all, but will remember him well for what he told me at his west Miami-Dade house in the fall of 2001: that a Venezuela court absolved him in the bombing of the Cubana de Aviacion [...]
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• From Poder Magazine, April 2011 The ...

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  From Poder Magazine, April 2011
  The Codina Conundrum
  What the Spence-Jones bribery case taught us about the real estate business and shamelessness
  
  By Kirk Nielsen
  Armando Codina, CEO of Codina Partners and esteemed icon of the local business world, was never a defendant in the bribery case of [...]
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