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COMMENTARY If you feared there's no successor to Joe Carollo as the blowtorch-bearer of Miami's banana republic politics, look no further than Kevin Cabrera.

South Florida is forecast to feel more rain this week after the region got drenched Sunday from a slow-moving storm that left streets flooded, according to the National Weather Service.

Hurricane Ian’s devastation on the Southwest Florida coast sent a chill up the spine of anyone in Miami worried about the next big one — and it sharpened the focus of federal planners working to design and build new barriers to avoid a similar outcome for Miami-Dade.

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has proposed a budget that includes about $500 million in housing programs, with $85 million in new strategic funding to address the housing crisis. In an interview with WLRN, she outlines its various programs aimed at the issue and says the affordable housing pressure from migration into Miami could be turned into an "opportunity".

For the second month in a row, Tampa and Miami topped other metro areas across the country in an analysis of housing price increases.

Broward County joins Miami-Dade as the only two counties in Florida with moderate risk levels rather than low ones.

A date has been set to sell the beachfront property in Surfside where the Champlain Towers South collapse took place last year.

The leadership team of United Teachers of Dade fought off challengers who said they've lost touch with members. The president of the teachers union won reelection — but by a smaller margin than in past years.

Two years ago, the vast majority of what the Miami-Dade Public Library System did was in person. Not any more.

Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper's daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction, died Sunday. She was 95.

Members of an obscure Miami-Dade County board are pushing to work through the backlog in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse.

This post will be updated today, Wednesday, June 23, and through the week with the latest information on COVID-19 in South Florida.