Transportation raising awareness of the inter-relatedness of one country's political policies and economic practices on another; 2.6 College of Law Joan Lehman Sculpture Plaza CBD. Fort Myers RSW Southwest Florida International Airport Medium Hub 4,364,224, Miami Florida Business directory On July 1 2009 Alex Acosta after leaving the post of United States Attorney (USAG) for South Florida became FIU's second dean of its law school He departed FIU to become the United States Secretary of Labor in 2017 in 2019 he stepped down as Labor Secretary after scrutiny of his role as USAG in the minimal sentencing of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001, See also: Frost Art Museum and Wolfsonian-FIU. .
Concourse F Metric conversion, Native American or Native Alaskan 0.3% 0.2% 0.4%. 9.2 Public transit Main article: Government of the City of Miami, On September 9 1994 the United States and Cuba agreed to normalize migration between the two countries the agreement codified the new U.S policy of placing Cuban refugees in safe havens outside the United States while obtaining a commitment from Cuba to discourage Cubans from sailing to America in addition the United States committed to admitting a minimum of 20,000 Cuban immigrants per year That number is in addition to the admission of immediate relatives of U.S citizens. Some colleges and universities in Greater Miami include:, The district is the second-largest minority-majority public school system in the country as of 2012 62% of MDCPS students were of Hispanic origin (of any race) 25% Black 10% Non-Hispanic White 3% other and multiracial Of the students enrolled in MDCPS 54% spoke Spanish at home 5% spoke Haitian Creole and less than 1% spoke French and Portuguese at home 45% of students were enrolled in bilingual Spanish language programs and an additional 23% were enrolled in other bilingual programs in French German Italian Mandarin Portuguese and Haitian Creole, Restoration These American settlers established a permanent foothold in the area and ignored Spanish authorities the British settlers who had remained also resented Spanish rule leading to a rebellion in 1810 and the establishment for ninety days of the so-called Free and Independent Republic of West Florida on September 23 After meetings beginning in June rebels overcame the garrison at Baton Rouge (now in Louisiana) and unfurled the flag of the new republic: a single white star on a blue field This flag would later become known as the "Bonnie Blue Flag". 9 Media 4.1 Athletics In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections Barack Obama carried the state as a northern Democrat attracting high voter turnout especially among the young Independents and minority voters of whom Hispanics comprise an increasingly large proportion 2008 marked the first time since 1944 when Franklin D Roosevelt carried the state for the fourth time that Florida was carried by a Northern Democrat for president, Hamptons at Boca Raton Importance of language and cultural studies, Downtown is South Florida's main hub for finance commerce and international business Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S.
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