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92 matches for 'billionaire'
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Pitbull and Rick Ross Claim to Be Billionaires, Only Make About $9 Million a Year
Believing a rapper who says "I'm a motherfuckin' billionaire" is just as ridiculous as believing a politician who says "I will be honest, accountable, and faithful to my wife." Still, in pursu...
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Florida Senate President blasts Miami Dolphins owner
Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, slammed the political tactics employed by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross on Friday, suggesting that the billionaire businessman’s threats will make it harder for him to get what he wants from Tallahassee. [...]
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Looks like Beckham & Claure's MLS Miami team is taking shape.
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It's been almost a month since a certain David Beckham was seen at a Miami Heat game with Bolivian billionaire Marcelo Claure.
We first heard the rumor of a Miami MLS team between Claure & Beckham a few years back. But, not many took notice until a [...]
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Bill Gates Buys Palm Beach Area Mansion, Reportedly Pays in Cash
Microsoft founder, and filthy-rich billionaire, Bill Gates has plunked down a crapload of skrilla for a 7,230-square-foot, four-acre, four-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion in the Mallet Hill sectio... [...]
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Bill Gates Buys Palm Beach Area Mansion, Reportedly Pays In Cash
Microsoft founder, and filthy-rich billionaire, Bill Gates has plunked down a crapload of skrilla for a 7,230-square-foot, four-acre, four-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion in the Mallet Hill sectio... [...]
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More Bullshit from Big Sugar: BS squared ... by gimleteye
The bullshit from Big Sugar is getting a big boost these days from Gov. Rick Scott and his poor Tea Party supporters guzzling and grabbing too much from the sugar aisles of the local supermarket. The Big Sugar billionaires are flying high after a legislative session in which they got [...] -
Political Beauty Contest by Eye On Miami: why it is appropriate ... by gimleteye
Eye On Miami's political beauty contest is not a joke. If we were billionaires, we would build a sports stadium; an arena to distract the public.
As the United States has shown, providing entertainments is as important today as two thousand years ago in the Roman empire.
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Marlins, Then Dolphins Now The Miami Heat Want Our Tax Dollars. By Geniusofdespair
Look who has his hand out for MORE public dollars: Billionaire Mickey Arison, Miami Heat owner.The stadiums and arenas handouts are going to break the Miami Dade County Bank.
Now the Miami Heat are asking for our tax dollars. Come on Mickey Arison, as of March 2013 [...]
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Young Billionaire Villains Is On Their “Villain Shxt”.
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With 4259730287 clothing lines emerging everyday, it’s easy to get caught in the shuffle. A lot of brands are trying to figure out ways to appeal to a different customer, to stand out, to be “different”, yadda yadda yadda. Let’s be real, how many t-shirts do these “clothing lines” [...]
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We Can Not Trust the Koch's with our News. Guest Blog by Brad Ashwell
By Brad Ashwell, Common Cause Florida
The Tribune Company is currently considering the sale of eight newspapers, including the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun-Sentinel to Charles and David Koch, two of the most politically controversial billionaires in the country. There is nothing particularly new or [...]
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Report: Beckham visiting Miami
The David Beckham-to-Miami buzz continues.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that Becks is visiting Miami this week and will be attending the Heat-Pacers game Thursday night as the guest of Marcelo Claure, the Bolivian billionaire owner of Brightstar Communications who in 2009 tried to bring an MLS team to Miami. The connection of [...]
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Kochs eye Soth Florida Sun Sentinel
Fred Grimm bemoans the Sun Sentinelhaving been "dragged down by the recession, falling ad revenue, flagging circulation and mostly by dunderhead notions of Chicago real estate billionaire Sam Zell, who bought the Tribune Company in 2007, [and] saddled it with $13 billion in debt, put a former radio shock jock" [...]
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A banner year for Big Sugar billionaires ... by gimleteye
What a blessed year if you love Big Sugar. The Obama White House is pinned down by an IRS scandal involving heightened scrutiny of tea party entities -- funded by large corporate interests, mainly -- while Marco Rubio, US Senator and tea party favorite doles out the biggest subsidy / [...]
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Dolphins’ Steven Ross: Pity The Poor Billionaire
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BY SAM FIELDS
I owe Miami Dolphins owner Steven Ross an apology for my earlier columns attacking the 83rd richest American. I erroneously went after him for his unwillingness to use his $4.5 billion to pay for all the improvements to “Joe Robbie, Landshark, Sun Life, Russell, etc., Stadium”.
It turns out [...]
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Miami Dolphins "Put the Cart Before the Horse," Says House Speaker Will Weatherford
The Miami Dolphins went on their WAHHH THE GOVERNMINTS WON'T GIVE OUR BILLIONAIRE OWNER ANY FREE MONEY 2013 Tour after they were denied public funds to renovate Sun Life Stadium by the House last...' [...]
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Miami Dolphins "Put the Cart Before the Horse," Says House Speaker Will Weatherford
The Miami Dolphins went on their WAHHH THE GOVERNMINTS WON'T GIVE OUR BILLIONAIRE OWNER ANY FREE MONEY 2013 Tour after they were denied public funds to renovate Sun Life Stadium by the House last...' [...]
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What does Ross' Giving Pledge mean for the Dolphins?
This morning, we took a look at Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross' announcement that he had joined the Giving Pledge, a group of 114 billionaires committed to donating at least half their wealth to charity. While the gesture is amazing, and in no way am I' [...]
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Miami Dolphins owner promises to give away most of his fortune to charity
via @doug_hanks
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross pledged Tuesday to give away to charity the bulk of his estimated $4 billion fortune once he dies, joining a list of prominent billionaires in the so-called “giving pledge.”
In his message on the Giving Pledge website, Ross touted his upbringing in a middle-class Detroit [...]
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60 Minutes on Paul Tudor Jones, Everglades Foundation founder ... by gimleteye
If you don't see the video try this link.
60 Minutes features billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones and the charitable entity he started, the Robin Hood Foundation in NYC. Robin Hood serves the poor and needy through innovative programming, including charter schools seeking to' [...]
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Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a moron
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My first car was a '59 Chevy that I bought for $600. It was a piece of crap. But it was my fault for not checking it out completely. Now, after all those years, I'm not feeling so bad. Seems it can happen to the best of us. Even to billionaires who should know [...] -
Hey, Steve Ross...now might be a good time to put your money where your mouth is!
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Click here to enlarge. Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is a billionaire times four. And because he's wealthy, he's used to getting his way. But, that didn't happen on Friday. So, Ross did what most people with money who are used to getting their way do when they don't get their way. He [...]
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Good Stuff Happens
Number of comments: 6Two good things happened yesterday:
• The bill to provide a large public subsidy for the refurbishment of the the Miami Dolphin’s stadium died in Tallahassee. The combination of outrage over the fiasco of the Miami Marlins deal, and the fact that the team’s lead owner is a multi-billionaire seemed to [...]
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Steve Ross and Jorge Perez: Build your own monuments ... by gimleteye
The message: if you are billionaires and expect taxpayers to fund your monuments, don't expect help from South Florida voters. We have had enough of lobbyists and political merchandisers. How much is it really worth to renovate the Dolphin's stadium? Whatever the private shareholders are willing to pay.
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Without tax dollars, Miami Dolphins owner must decide whether to spend own cash
via @doug_hanks
Without tax dollars at his disposal, how much money will Stephen Ross spend on Sun Life Stadium?
That’s the question looming over the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins in the wake of the Florida Legislature denying his request for both state and county dollars to fund about 45 percent [...]
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Will voters finally rise up, against bad stadium deals in South Florida? Yes we can ... by gimleteye
Broken promises. The American Airlines Arena, the Performing Arsht Center, the Marlins Stadium, the Genting Casino and Museum of Jorge Perez: will Miami-Dade voters finally reject a stadium campaign that only makes sense to insiders and its billionaire sport team owner? The answer is, yes.
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Sun Life Stadium Renovation Bill Passes Senate, Looks Likely to Get House Vote
Hey, Miami-Dade voters: Looks like you'll have a chance after all to decide whether the Dolphins -- and their billionaire owner, Stephen Ross -- deserve tax dollars to help renovate Sun Life Stadi...
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Braman BMW Forges Signatures and Swindles Customers, Says Former Service Manager
Norman Braman likes to think of himself as a man of the people. The billionaire famously sued the county and the Marlins in 2008 on behalf of taxpayers pissed off over the disastrous stadium deal...
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Absentee Ballots Have Gone Out on Corporate Welfare for Dolphin's Billionaire. By Geniusofdespair
Whomever designed this ballot should be forced to eat a few copies. Why didn't they use the empty column on the right to make it shorter? There is one friggin' question. One question requires a 17 inch long ballot?
In 30 years the Dolphins are supposed [...]
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Koch Brothers Interested in Buying Sun Sentinel; Five Other Billionaires Who Could Scoop Up the Paper
Over the weekend, liberal media types coast to coast suffered jags of anxiety after the New York Times reported that Charles and David Koch -- AKA the billionaire Jagger and Richards of the Tea... [...]
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Koch Brothers Interested in Buying Sun Sentinel; Five Other Billionaires Who Could Scoop Up the Paper
Over the weekend, liberal media types coast to coast suffered jags of anxiety after the New York Times reported that Charles and David Koch -- AKA the billionaire Jagger and Richards of the Tea... [...]
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