Unpacking Grand Avenue

Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit
Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit
Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover  the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...
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Fighting City Hall; The Miami Corruption Tapestry — Part 2.5Fighting City Hall; The Miami Corruption Tapestry — Part 2.5
This is a continuation of the August 29 post “Winker? I Hardly Know ‘Er – Part Two of the David Winker Affair”, renamed The Miami Corruption Tapestry.
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Is the OMNI CRA Expanding?Is the OMNI CRA Expanding?
A vote Thursday at Miami City Hall could be the lifeline West Grove needs to pull itself out from under decades of poverty and systemic racism. District 2 Commissioner Ken Russell ...
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Intense Intents in Tents ► Unpacking Grand AvenueIntense Intents in Tents ► Unpacking Grand Avenue
CLICK HERE for a full gallery of Housing for All protest pics Two gatherings in Coconut Grove on Saturday morning were as different as Black and White.  On Grand Avenue Thaddeus Scott ...
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Waking Up in the Grove ► Unpacking Grand AvenueWaking Up in the Grove ► Unpacking Grand Avenue
Looking east along Grand Avenue with the sun rising over Biscayne Bay This is Part Two of a series about Grand Avenue in Coconut Grove. The car creeps west very slowly ...
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The Grand Avenue 2002 Vision Plan ► Unpacking Grand AvenueThe Grand Avenue 2002 Vision Plan ► Unpacking Grand Avenue
This 1885 watercolour by Winslow Homer is called “A Garden in Nassau”. Ironically it was used 14 years ago for this Grand Avenue Vision Plan. Read more about it below. This ...
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