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A new complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development claims the city displaced and discriminated against residents of the historically-Black Coconut Grove Village West, using a pattern of zoning that disparately affects communities of color and contributes to the “resegregation” of Miami.
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The City of Miami commission advanced an effort to build luxury condo towers on Watson Island, near the Jungle Island theme park. They also set up a battle with Miami-Dade County on zoning, and further penalized homeless residents.
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The City of Miami and voting rights groups filed a joint motion to approve a settlement after the city was found in federal court to have racially gerrymandered its voting map.
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During a year of mounting scandals and legal woes, the City of Miami looked to an outside firm for expert advice on how to respond to media.
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Miami commissioners have settled with voting rights groups who accused them of racially gerrymandering the city map during redistricting.
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QBE Specialty Insurance has sued the city in federal court seeking a judge's declaration that they have no responsibility to pay the legal fees for Commissioner Joe Carollo in his various lawsuits. They are seeking to recover the fees they've already paid out.
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Four Miami city commissioners voted to defer "the most important vote" the city has had this year that would've adopted a new map of city districts. The commission will now vote on a settlement in two weeks — if they don't face repercussions.
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The new map was drawn up alongside voting rights advocates after more than a year of tense litigation over a redistricting effort that a federal judge called "racially gerrymandered." The deal includes a federal settlement agreement that would take taxpayers' total bill close to $3 million.
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Victoria Méndez is no longer Miami's City Attorney. Commissioners voted to remove her immediately following a string of controversies.
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Chastised by commissioners over "conflicts of interest," Art Noriega insisted he had nothing to do with City Hall contentiously purchasing furniture from Pradere Manufacturing. He agreed his office should no longer do so, but the new policy would not stop other departments.
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Miami City Manager Art Noriega promised to present a "full accounting" of the city's business transactions with a furniture company owned by his wife's family. Two months later, the report is out — and it omits more than $150,000 worth of purchases.
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For over two months Art Noriega's office has said a full accounting of furniture contracts between the city and his wife's family company would soon be released.