Trying to buy a piece of the pie in Miami or Seattle is becoming more expensive at a faster pace than the rest of the market. The prices of the most expensive homes in Seattle and Miami are increasing at a...
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The prices of the most expensive homes in Miami are increasing at a faster pace than the rest of the market there.
Movin’ On Up in Seattle, Miami
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Albert Gomez talks on the phone at his office in Miami, Florida.
Cuban-Americans: Generational Shift Helped Elect, Re-Elect Obama
Abelardo and Lucy Gomez, like many of their generation who fled Cuba, have voted for every Republican U.S. presidential candidate for the past 40 years. Their son is another story. Albert Gomez, 39, who works in the family business in...
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A Barack Obama supporter visits the Democratic Party's headquarters in Espanola, New Mexico.
Obama On the Air: English y Espanol
President Barack Obama has been accused of campaigning after Election Day. House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have chided him for the trips he’s made to places such as the toy factory in Pennsvylania and the...
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President Barack Obama supporter Geraldine Johnson, 80, holds an Obama/Biden campaign sign outside the polling precinct at the New Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Tampa in Fla.
Florida: The Long Count Goes On
Updated at 9:50 am and 7 pm EST President Barack Obama holds a wider advantage over Republican Mitt Romney tonight than he did last night. Wider, too, than this morning. In Florida, that is. The voting that ended at 1:30...
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Voters stand in line at a Fort Myers, Fla. church late Nov. 6, 2012.
Election Over, Florida Still Counting
Updated at 2:55 pm EST (Still waiting) It’s you know what all over again — with the elections supervisor in Miami-Dade County still counting presidential election ballots. Except this time, unlike in 2000, the White House does not hang in...
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A car sits parked below a painting of Che Guevara in Havana, Cuba.
Castros, Guevera, Chavez — Obama’s Crowd in Romney Ad
Updated at 11:25 am EDT There are a few names not lightly mentioned in Miami’s Cuban-American community. One is Fidel Castro, and another is Che Guevera — a couple of figures responsible for the political exile of many hundreds of...
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Eddie Vedder performs during a concert in Amsterdam.
Obama’s Pearl Jam: $20,000 Ticket
Eddie Vedder, once lead singer of Pearl Jam, can still pack a house. Even with a ukulele. At $20,000 per ticket, Vedder helped President Barack Obama find 85 supporters today for a Tampa fundraiser, where he broke out the Hawaiian...
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Mitt Romney, on the air in the media hold room at the Univision studios, is interviewed by Univision News, moderated by Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, in Miami on September 19, 2012.
Romney Softens Immigration Stance
Mitt Romney softened his rhetoric on immigration today, telling a television audience of Hispanic voters that he would not forcibly deport millions of immigrants. “We’re not going to round up people around the country and deport them,” he said, in...
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Residents help clean up in front of a foreclosed home in Miami.
`Misery:’ Miami Worse than Cleveland — Bloomberg Index in Swing States
The “Misery Rate” — a Bloomberg index of government data combining consumer prices and the jobless rate — is over 10 percent in President Barack Obama’s home town, and under 7 percent in Republican Mitt Romney’s home town. The rate...
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Mitt Romney, center, his son Craig, right, and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a campaign event El Palacio de los Jugos, in Miami on Aug. 13, 2012.
Romney’s Campaign Stop at Ex-Cocaine Con’s Miami Juice Stand
In a campaign, advance work is everything. In South Florida, it’s not beyond reason that a random sampling of sponsors for a campaign stop might find a little of the old cocaine cowboy in someone’s closet. That’s what happened to...
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