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      Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is pleased to announce that 3,520 Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) customers will benefit from federal Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP) funds to pay for their water and sewer utility bills. Miami-Dade County will receive $8.5 million of the $55 million awarded to the State of Florida through the federal program. The LIHWAP is a federally funded program managed by Florida Commerce to support low-income households in need.

 The shooting and death of Samyiah James,13 year old from North Lauderdale, was reportedly shot near the 7400 block of Southwest 12th Court around 10:42 p.m. by an unknown suspect. 

     Both Krasner and Warren have been informally dubbed “progressive prosecutors,” a broad category that conservatives have aggressively targeted in recent months — via impeachments, suspensions, and new state laws and commissions designed to weaken the prosecutors’ authority or kick them out of office. Generally, opponents argue that by choosing not to focus on certain minor crimes and pledging not to pursue particular cases — for example, those tied to marijuana or abortion — these prosecutors are flouting state laws.

     The subject of this story sounds as asinine and ridiculous as our misguided, punitive governor’s pernicious assertion that slavery benefited Black people. As I travel through out Broward County performing mundane tasks, homelessness is the existential crisis impossible to ignore. On practically every major intersection in Broward, panhandling persists and homelessness is pervasive. I routinely in the past transported a friend to the tri-rail station just south of Broward Blvd., then used the access road to I-95 to return home. Each time under the overpass the proliferation of homeless encampments became more apparent.