! Since the mid-20th century Florida has been considered a bellwether voting for 15 successful presidential candidates since 1952 During such period it has voted for a losing candidate only twice, 4 Carnival Cruise Lines 3,500 Grade 4: 26,056 Miami City Hall at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove the city's primary administrative offices are held here. . . Marine pollution is a generic term for the entry into the ocean of potentially hazardous chemicals or particles the biggest culprits are rivers and with them many agriculture fertilizer chemicals as well as livestock and human waste the excess of oxygen-depleting chemicals leads to hypoxia and the creation of a dead zone, Hard Rock Stadium home of the Miami Dolphins of the NFL and plays host to the Miami Hurricanes, Deerfield Beach 75,018 64,585 Broward After the Civil War a state agency called the Internal Improvement Fund (IIF) whose purpose was to improve Florida's roads canals and rail lines was discovered to be deeply in debt the IIF found a Pennsylvania real estate developer named Hamilton Disston interested in implementing plans to drain the land for agriculture Disston purchased 4,000,000 acres (16,000 km2) of land for $1 million in 1881 and he began constructing canals near St Cloud at first the canals seemed to work in lowering the water levels in the wetlands surrounding the rivers They were effective in lowering the groundwater but it became apparent that their capacity was insufficient for the wet season Although Disston's canals did not drain well his purchase primed the economy of Florida it made news and attracted tourists and land buyers Within four years property values doubled and the population increased significantly.
. WRGP Radiate FM is FIU's student-run radio station since 1984 it broadcasts on 95.3 MHz at the University Park Campus and on 96.9 MHz at the Biscayne Bay Campus the signal originates in Homestead on 88.1 MHz and a broadcast translator rebroadcasts WRGP's signal to the University Park Campus and later again translated to the Biscayne Bay Campus. . ; Housing characteristics: as of 2005 the Miami area had a total of 2.3 million housing units 13% of which were vacant Of the total housing units 52% were in single-unit structures 45% were in multi-unit structures and 3% were mobile homes 25% of the housing units were built since 1990 as of 2019 over 70% of Miami's residents are renters with median rent of $1,355 $180 over the national average, A 2013 Gallup poll indicated that 47% of the residents agreed that Florida was the best state to live in Results in other states ranged from a low of 18% to a high of 77%. .
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