6.2 To/from Tri-Rail/Amtrak Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, The City of Miami Fire and Rescue Department operates 4 of its 14 fire stations within the Downtown area Each are listed below, Frost Art Museum 1977 (new building: 2007). Tropical Park Stadium, Miami's Brickell neighborhood is amongst the fastest-growing areas of Miami-Dade County[citation needed], Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year 2010 Census 2,496,435! . Miami-Dade Transit serves University Park with Metrobus lines 8 11 24 and 71 Metrobus lines 75 and 135 serve the Biscayne Bay Campus Bus lines 8 11 and the 24 directly connect FIU with Downtown Miami, 10.2 Higher education Precipitation totals in inches, The Miami skyline 5 Headquarters 5.3 Cuisine At the same time mercury was found in local fish at such high levels that consumption warnings were posted for fishermen a Florida panther was found dead with levels of mercury high enough to kill a human Scientists found that power plants and incinerators using fossil fuels were expelling mercury into the atmosphere and it fell as rain or dust during droughts the naturally occurring bacteria that reduce sulfur in the Everglades ecosystem were transforming the mercury into methylmercury and it was bioaccumulating through the food chain Stricter emissions standards helped lower mercury coming from power plants and incinerators which in turn lowered mercury levels found in animals though they continue to be a concern. ARWU 118-139 Florida International University has two major campuses in Miami the main campus University Park and its regional campus the Biscayne Bay Campus as well as several branch campuses and research facilities throughout South Florida in Tianjin China and in Nervi and Genoa Italy.
. . Miami Children's Museum School, In the early 1970s the Miami disco sound came to life with TK Records featuring the music of KC and the Sunshine Band with such hits as "Get Down Tonight" "(Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty" and "That's the Way (I Like It)"; and the Latin-American disco group Foxy with their hit singles "Get Off" and "Hot Number" They were on the very same South Florida label that released the first disco song to become a #1 hit on the pop music charts "Rock Your Baby" by Miami area native George McCrae in 1974 Other artists from that local label include Foxy Peter Brown Jimmy "Bo" Horne Gwen McCrae T-Connection and Anita Ward Miami native Teri DeSario was also a popular artist during the disco era the Bee Gees moved to Miami in 1975 and have lived here ever since then, Scientific explorations of the Atlantic include the Challenger expedition the German Meteor expedition Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the United States Navy Hydrographic Office. . 10 Education Miami International Airport (MIA) and PortMiami are among the nation's busiest ports of entry especially for cargo from South America and the Caribbean PortMiami is the world's busiest cruise port and MIA is the busiest airport in Florida and the largest gateway between the United States and Latin America Due to its strength in international business finance and trade the city has among the largest concentration of international banks in the country primarily along Brickell Avenue in Brickell Miami's financial district Miami was the host city of the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations. In May 2011 the paper announced it had sold 14 acres (5.7 ha) of Biscayne Bayfront land surrounding its headquarters in the Arts & Entertainment District of Downtown Miami for $236 million to a Malaysian resort developer Genting Malaysia Berhad McClatchy announced that the Herald and El Nuevo Herald would be moving to another location by 2013 in May 2013 the paper moved to a new building in suburban Doral the old building was demolished in 2014, Photo:Charles Barron / State Library and Archives of Florida, Drainage Haverhill During the 1904 gubernatorial race the strongest candidate Napoleon Bonaparte Broward promoted draining the Everglades He called the future of South Florida the "Empire of the Everglades" Soon after his successful election he began work to "drain that abominable pestilence-ridden swamp" and pushed the Florida legislature to form a group of commissioners to oversee reclamation of flooded lands in 1907 they established the Everglades Drainage District and began to study how to build the most effective canals and how to fund them Governor Broward ran for the U.S Senate in 1908 but lost Broward was paid by land developer Richard J Bolles to tour the state to promote drainage Elected to the Senate in 1910 Broward died before he could take office Land in the Everglades was being sold for $15 an acre a month after Broward died Meanwhile Henry Flagler continued to build railway stations at towns as soon as the populations warranted them. In 2013 Florida refused to participate in providing coverage for the uninsured under the Affordable Care Act popularly called Obamacare the Florida legislature also refused to accept additional Federal funding for Medicaid although this would have helped its constituents at no cost to the state As a result Florida is second only to Texas in the percentage of its citizens without health insurance.
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