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Lawmakers wrapped up the regular 2022 Florida legislative session in March without passing a bill that would create a statewide standard for ensuring that residential buildings are safe to live in. Some elected officials gathered April 14, 2022, at the site of the former Champlain Towers South on Collins Avenue in Surfside to express urgency for a new law in Florida.
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Over the nine months since the Champlain Towers South building collapsed in Surfside, tension has grown between those who lost their homes and those who lost their loved ones. Now a judge in Miami and newly elected officials in Surfside are charting a path forward.
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The newly elected mayor of Surfside is making the town’s response to the deaths of 98 people in the collapse of their oceanfront condominium a top priority in his new administration.
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Former classmates and peers of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson are watching her confirmation hearings carefully this week. The latest on what’s happened in the aftermath of the Surfside condo collapse. And the band Sol and The Tribu say they have Miami’s new sound.
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The proposed $83 million lawsuit settlement would be distributed to people who lost property and belongings in the Champlain Towers South collapse.
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“Our investigation has uncovered additional entities, who along with the original defendants, we believe share responsibility for the Surfside collapse,” two of the plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a statement.
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With the loved ones of those who died in the Surfside condo collapse looking on, Surfside commissioners took initial steps Tuesday to honor the victims with a memorial and tighten inspection requirements for older buildings in town.
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The report comes six months after the horrific collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building that killed 98 people, and warns of future catastrophes if changes are not immediately instituted.
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An estimated $750,000 in randomly scattered cash that was recovered in the rubble of the Surfside condo collapse will soon be driven in an armored truck to Washington, D.C., and converted into a lump-sum payment — courtesy of the Treasury Department for the benefit of residents who lost the money in the summer tragedy.
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Steve Rosenthal, 72, lost the Champlain Towers South apartment he lived in for 20 years. He had planned to sell it in a few years, after paying his assessment to complete required repairs and improvements on the Surfside building. Now, he no longer has a home of his own and says he's worried about affording his retirement.
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Miami-Dade County has suggested disposing of some Champlain Towers South condo building remnants that they deem no longer have evidentiary value, but a number of victims' family members worry that human remains could still be in that rubble that's stored outdoors in Doral.
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A Florida Bar task force has presented proposals on how to make condo living better and safer after Surfside. We meet the man who was central to helping Florida felons get their voting rights back. And a dramedy film about a Cuban-American woman packing for a family trip to Havana.