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Florida Property Tax Amendment Heads to November Ballot After Special Session

Florida Property Tax Amendment Heads to November Ballot After Special Session

Florida voters will decide this November whether to dramatically expand the state’s homestead property tax exemption, after lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment on June 2 during a special legislative session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The measure cleared the required three-fifths threshold in both chambers and now needs at least 60% support at the ballot box to take effect. The amendment would raise the homestead exemption from its current $50,000 to $150,000 in 2027 and then to $250,000 in 2028, applying to the value of a primary residence for tax purposes. The expanded exemption would not apply to school district property tax levies, a carve-out designed to shield education funding from the cut. The proposal emerged from a session that

Miami Sits Between Two National Parks, a Distinction No Other Major U.S. City Can Claim

Miami Sits Between Two National Parks, a Distinction No Other Major U.S. City Can Claim

Miami is known for its skyline, its beaches, and its restless creative energy, but one of its defining traits is geographic. The city is widely cited as the only major U.S. city framed by two national parks: Everglades National Park to the west and Biscayne National Park to the east. One is a vast river of grass; the other is almost entirely ocean. Between them sits a metropolis that has spent its whole life negotiating with the wild on both sides. The framing deserves a small note of precision. Neither park boundary literally runs up against Miami’s city limits, and both are roughly an hour from downtown. But across the greater Miami-Dade region, the two protected wildernesses flank the urban

Miami's Tourism Recovery: The Comeback of the Cruise Industry and International Visitors

Miami’s Tourism Recovery: The Comeback of the Cruise Industry and International Visitors

Miami sits at the center of one of the most consequential tourism moments in its modern history — a city where the world’s largest cruise port is setting passenger records, new ships are calling it home, and the FIFA World Cup is weeks away from bringing a global wave of visitors to its beaches, hotels, and neighborhoods. The convergence is not accidental. It reflects years of infrastructure investment, a deepening identity as an international gateway, and the return of confidence from travelers who chose Miami as their destination even when global tourism stumbled elsewhere. PortMiami’s Record-Breaking Run PortMiami officially closed Fiscal Year 2025 with its highest-ever passenger count: 8,564,225 cruise passengers passed through Miami between October 1, 2024, and September

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Who Were the Tequesta?

A Complete History of Miami’s First People The Tequesta were the original inhabitants of what is now Miami and much of southeastern Florida, long before the arrival of Europeans. Their

Edge Computing: Improved Performance Over Cloud?

Edge Computing: Improved Performance Over Cloud?

Edge computing offers a compelling performance advantage by minimizing the distance data must travel between its source and the point of processing. Unlike traditional cloud computing, which relies on centralized