American football: Miami Seahawks (AAFC) Miami Tropics (SFL) Miami Hooters (Arena Football League), In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation. 1950s to 1970s Cities Japan Japan 4 Community involvement Climate data for Miami (MIA) 1981-2010 normals,[a] extremes 1895-present[b] Contents 1974 61.2% 1,118,954 38.8% 709,438 (113) 8.70. See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Miami-Dade County Florida Reapportionment following the 2010 United States Census gave the state two more seats in the House of Representatives the legislature's redistricting announced in 2012 was quickly challenged in court on the grounds that it had unfairly benefited Republican interests in 2015 the Florida Supreme Court ruled on appeal that the congressional districts had to be redrawn because of the legislature's violation of the Fair District Amendments to the state constitution passed in 2010; it accepted a new map in early December 2015. . . Toll Florida 924.svg State Road 924 (Gratigny Parkway) Main article: Sports in Florida Knight Concert Hall Cuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel Boatlift crisis.
. Barry University (private/Catholic) Medley, In 1998 Democratic voters dominated areas of the state with a high percentage of racial minorities and transplanted white liberals from the northeastern United States known colloquially as "snowbirds" South Florida and the Miami metropolitan area are dominated by both racial minorities and white liberals Because of this the area has consistently voted as one of the most Democratic areas of the state the Daytona Beach area is similar demographically and the city of Orlando has a large Hispanic population which has often favored Democrats Republicans made up mostly of white conservatives have dominated throughout much of the rest of Florida particularly in the more rural and suburban areas This is characteristic of its voter base throughout the Deep South, Interfraternity Council Panhellenic Council National Pan-Hellenic Council Multicultural Greek Council. The military penetration of southern Florida offered the opportunity to map a poorly understood and largely unknown part of the country an 1840 expedition into the Everglades offered the first printed account for the general public to read about the Everglades the anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing:! ; The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project's final construction project was straightening the Kissimmee River a meandering 90-mile (140 km)-long river that was drained to make way for grazing land and agriculture the C&SF started building the C-38 canal in 1962 and the effects were seen almost immediately Waterfowl wading birds and fish disappeared prompting conservationists and sport fishers to demand the region be restored before the canal was finished in 1971 in general C&SF projects had been criticized for being temporary fixes that ignored future consequences costing billions of dollars with no end in sight After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983 the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986 Graham announced that by 2000 the Everglades would be restored as closely as possible to its pre-drainage state the Kissimmee River Restoration project was approved by Congress in 1992 It is estimated that it will cost $578 million to convert only 22 miles (35 km) of the canal the entire project was to be complete by 2011 yet as of 2017 the project is "more than halfway complete" and the new completion date is 2020, In 2016 Florida charged the second lowest tuition in the nation for four years $26,000 for in-state students to $86,000 for out-of-state students This compares with an average of $34,800 nationally for in-state students, (41) 2.03 The airport has 131 gates in total the main terminal at MIA dates back to 1959 with several new additions Semicircular in shape the terminal has one linear concourse (Concourse D) and five pier-shaped concourses lettered counter-clockwise from E to J (Concourse a is now part of Concourse D; Concourses B and C were demolished so that Concourse D gates could be added in their place; naming of Concourse I was skipped to avoid confusion with the number 1.) From the terminal's opening until the mid-1970s the concourses were numbered clockwise from 1 to 6.
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