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. . A sign advertising the completion of the Herbert Hoover Dike, 2 Cities Science Classroom Complex 2012. Miami Homestead General Aviation Airport Miami-Dade British American Business Council In 2010 Cubans made up the largest population of immigrants (with more than half of the population) with Colombians coming in second Haitians in third followed by Nicaraguans in fourth place then Dominicans Venezuelans Peruvians Jamaicans Mexicans and Argentinians among the highest group of immigrants. 3 Wildlife and preservation 2.2 Hydrology 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. The urban neighborhood of Brickell in Downtown Miami contains the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S. 2.3% Dominican, 9 Sports Miami is the twelfth largest radio market and the seventeenth largest television market in the United States Television stations serving the Miami area include WAMI (UniMas) WBFS (My Network TV) WSFL (The CW) WFOR (CBS) WHFT (TBN) WLTV (Univision) WPLG (ABC) WPXM (Ion) WSCV (Telemundo) WSVN (Fox) WTVJ (NBC) WPBT (PBS) and WLRN (also PBS), Martinaire Nursing and Health Sciences Building 2009 Main article: Seminole.

Following Hurricane Andrew in 1992 Dade County was commended for its speed at rebuilding and reopening schools Most schools reopened within two weeks of the storm and students who attended schools that had been completely destroyed were quickly displaced with free and efficient bus transportation the district also used funding from the disaster to redo its entire curriculum adding sex education to elementary schools and foreign language programs to middle schools it opened fully funded magnet schools such as Coral Reef High School and Southwood Middle School which take in students from all over the county based on school performance (some schools are partial magnets which also enroll students from surrounding neighborhoods while some are full magnets that only take students based on merit) the district also re-opened Coral Way Elementary as its first bilingual school which teaches its curriculum in both English and Spanish, 2000 362,470 1.1% Miami-Dade Broward and Palm Beach counties are the first second and third most populous counties in Florida and Miami-Dade with 2,761,581 people in 2018 is the seventh most populous county in the United States the three counties together are known as the Greater Miami Area and have principal cities including Miami Fort Lauderdale West Palm Beach Hialeah Pembroke Pines and Boca Raton Besides its association with the South Florida region which includes the Everglades and the Florida Keys it is also synonymous with an area known collectively as the "Gold Coast". A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades 1966 Rum-runners used the Everglades as a hiding spot during Prohibition; it was so vast there were never enough law enforcement officers to patrol it the arrival of the railroad and the discovery that adding trace elements like copper was the remedy for crops sprouting and dying quickly soon created a population boom New towns such as Moore Haven Clewiston and Belle Glade sprouted like the crops Sugarcane became the primary crop grown in South Florida Miami experienced a second real estate boom that earned a developer in Coral Gables $150 million Undeveloped land north of Miami sold for $30,600 an acre in 1925 Miami newspapers published editions weighing over 7 pounds (3.2 kg) most of it in real estate advertising Waterfront property was the most highly valued Mangrove trees were cut down and replaced with palm trees to improve the view Acres of South Florida slash pine were cleared Some of the pine was for lumber but most of the pine forests in Dade County were cleared for development. .