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The Miami Herald
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Feb 5
5478
Tyler Harris smiles as he awaits his turn for blood work.
What 12-year-old welcomes the needle -- let alone braves it with a smile?
... ``It's great, they give us a lot of information and they take care of us,'' the Parkway Middle School seventh grader explains while sitting in a classroom-cum-makeshift medical office at Opa-locka's Nathan B. Young Elementary School.
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The Miami Herald
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Feb 4
5212
When I was a child, a very long time ago, I used to look forward to what was then Black History Week. That was a special time in our then-al... l-black schools. There would be special assemblies and visiting speakers who would tell us the stories of how they ``got over.'' This was important, because in our American History books back then, there was little mention of the Africans who came to America as slave, or of the contributions they made to their ``adopted'' homeland.
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The Miami Herald
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Feb 4
2510
Miami Gardens is launching an elaborate drive urging residents to participate in the U.S. Census.
This will be the first time the city w... ill be included in the census since its incorporation in 2003, and city officials want every resident counted by the April 1 deadline.
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The Miami Herald
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Feb 2
2115
The city of Opa-locka is scaling back plans to improve a mile-long stretch of Ali Baba Avenue after all bids came in over budget.
Voting... 4-0 without discussion last week, the city council rejected all bids for the project and directed the city manager to issue a new request for proposals.
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The Miami Herald
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Feb 1
3269
Opa-locka is making strides at improving its sewer system, cutting crime and making the city a better place to live, Mayor Joseph L. Kelley ... said in his annual state of the city speech last week.
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The Miami Herald
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Jan 26
2875
As veteran lawyers, Michael Pizzi and Peter Adrien have argued plenty of cases before -- but not usually in front of a jury of kids and teen... agers.
Pizzi, the Miami Lakes mayor, and Adrien, a Miami-Dade circuit judge, served as defense lawyer and prosecutor in a mock trial at the Miami Lakes Educational Center on Jan. 19, in front of over 300 children from 8 to 18 years old.
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