Miami's Generosity: Inside the city's biggest fundraiser with Nikisha Williams
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Miami's Generosity: Inside the city's biggest fundraiser with Nikisha Williams

GIVE MIAMI DAY is a tradition in Miami where 1,300 nonprofits work together to fund a variety of worthy causes. We talk to a worker at a nonprofit who works directly on the city's streets to help the neediest -- and also with Nikisha Williams, who talks about how gifts are leveraged many times over. Send a text Support the show Subscribe to the Key Biscayne Independent today

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Fausto Gomez - The Condo Commander

Fausto Gomez - The Condo Commander

Fausto Gomez was recently named president of Key Biscayne Condominium Presidents Council. He stops by to tell us where the priorities are for the organization that speaks for the Key's condo owners. ...

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The Most Important Job On The Island w/ Luis de la Cruz

The Most Important Job On The Island w/ Luis de la Cruz

LUIS DE LA CRUZ didn't win when he ran for mayor, but he now holds an even more coveted island post -- Commodore of the Key Biscayne Yacht Club. We talk to him about the job -- and also about the endg...

9 Apr 202135min

Hail To The Chief?

Hail To The Chief?

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2 Apr 202139min

Don't Filibuster My Vaccine!

Don't Filibuster My Vaccine!

Executive Director of the Key Biscayne Community Foundation, Melissa White, talks about COVID testing and COVID vaccine availability on the Key. Find out the "wheres" "whens" and most importantly "wh...

26 Mar 202146min

Ghost Candidates, Biscayne Bay, & More Conservative Cubans

Ghost Candidates, Biscayne Bay, & More Conservative Cubans

The district covering Key Biscayne was the subject of statewide news when a political operative and an a "ghost candidate" were charged with election crimes. We talk to another local lawmaker, Distric...

19 Mar 202150min

Take Your Self Driving Car To The Theater

Take Your Self Driving Car To The Theater

Barbara Stein, Executive producing director of Actors Playhouse at Miracle Theater talks about what it's like now that live theater is back in Miami, the impact of COVID on venues like hers, and what ...

12 Mar 202148min

Perils of "Private" Government & Key Colony's New President

Perils of "Private" Government & Key Colony's New President

SOME 74 MILLION PEOPLE live in condominiums and homeowner associations, organizations that have many of the powers of government, but don't play by the same rules. Increasingly, they are playing polit...

6 Mar 202138min

Saving Local News and Empanadas

Saving Local News and Empanadas

Local newsrooms are dying all across America - and in South Florida, both major daily newspapers are under the control of hedge funds. But a new movement of Independent, nonprofit journalism is taking...

27 Feb 202148min

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