North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport Palm Beach, 3 Military, 7 Florida Power and Light Co. 3,011. Hurricanes population 2018 3.5 Study abroad Agriculture and fishing. . 6.4 Rental cars Lake Worth Corridor, Colleges and universities Country Club. Main article: Government of Florida Establishment Metrobus serves all of Miami-Dade County Contents 3 Demographics 15 Notable people. There were 800 federal corruption convictions from 1988 to 2007 more than any other state Extent of the Atlantic Ocean according to the 2002 IHO definition excluding Arctic and Antarctic regions.
State Road 886 (Port Boulevard) connects downtown and PortMiami by bridge over Biscayne Bay, 3.5 Study abroad Former venues include:, On June 27 2005 the popular ex-city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Miami Herald headquarters dropped off a package for columnist Jim DeFede and told the security guard to tell his wife Stephanie he "loved her" before pulling out a gun and committing suicide His suicide happened the day the alternative weekly Miami New Times published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that Teele had sex with a transsexual prostitute and used cocaine At the time Teele was being investigated by federal authorities for fraud and money laundering for allegedly taking $59,000 in kickbacks to help a businessman get millions of dollars in contracts at Miami International Airport Teele was suspended from his job in 2004 by Florida governor Jeb Bush after being arrested for trying to run a police officer off the road Teele was also charged in December 2004 with ten counts of unlawful compensation on charges he took $135,000 from TLMC Inc promising that it would be awarded lucrative contracts to redevelop neighborhoods in Miami Teele was also found guilty in March 2005 for threatening an undercover detective. NRHP reference # 05001356 and 88003057 Asian American 3.4% 3% 5%, College of Business Since then the Latin and Caribbean-friendly atmosphere in Miami has made it a popular destination for tourists and immigrants from all over the world It is the third-biggest immigration port in the country after New York City and Los Angeles in addition large immigrant communities have settled in Miami from around the globe including Europe Africa and Asia the majority of Miami's European immigrant communities are recent immigrants many living in the city seasonally with a high disposable income; The Office of Housing and Residential Life also offers optional communities in the residence halls These communities include the Architecture and Arts Community for students majoring in Architecture or art-related majors Honors Place for Honors College students F.Y.R.S.T (First Year Residents Succeeding Together) for all freshmen in any major F.Y.R.S.T Explore for undecided freshmen Leader's in Residence for students interested in civic service and leadership opportunities and the Law Community for College of Law students, 2 Today Old U.S Post Office and Courthouse (Miami Florida).jpg Hurricane Charley in 2004 moving ashore on South Florida's Gulf of Mexico coast. Five geologic formations form the surface of the southern portion of Florida: the Tamiami Formation Caloosahatchee Formation Anastasia Formation Miami Limestone and the Fort Thompson Formation the Tamiami Formation is a compression of highly permeable light colored fossiliferous sands and pockets of quartz 150 feet (46 m) thick It is named for the Tamiami Trail that follows the upper bedrock of the Big Cypress Swamp and underlies the southern portion of the Everglades Between the Tamiami Formation and Lake Okeechobee is the Caloosahatchee Formation named for the river over it Much less permeable this formation is highly calcitic and is composed of sandy shell marl clay and sand Water underneath the Caloosahatchee Formation is typically very mineralized Both the Tamiami and Caloosahatchee Formations developed during the Pliocene Epoch, Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II, First Presbyterian Church (1898) Sandalfoot Cove. Planned: 3.3 South Terminal (Red), Historic districts Boca Pointe, I-95 Main articles: New Spain Spanish Florida French and Indian War Treaty of Paris (1763) West Florida East Florida Indian Reserve (1763) American Revolutionary War Gulf Coast campaign Treaty of Paris (1783) and Spanish West Florida. .
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