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Verónica Zaragovia

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Businesses adapt to Miami Beach rules against spring break violence

Mar 13, 2025
Years of chaos led to strict restrictions, but local businesses are wondering about the impact.
Road closures and barricaded street parking are some of the efforts in Miami Beach to deter violence during the annual March spring break period.
Verónica Zaragovia

Getting a tattoo under anesthesia won't hurt — except the price

Dec 10, 2024
A growing number of companies will tattoo a client's entire body part in one work day, but the procedure comes with anesthesia, medical care and high costs.
Tattoo artists with Sedation Ink work on one client under anesthesia at a surgical center near Miami to finish the entire back in one day.
Courtesy Sedation Ink

As Florida’s population surges, state invests in nursing schools to target shortage

Apr 4, 2023
Many colleges and universities are using state funding to recruit and retain students, as well as instructors, to boost nursing degree graduates and fill job openings in the state.
Nursing students celebrate at a recent graduation at Broward College.
Courtesy Broward College

With bus drivers in short supply, one local transit authority seeks a hiring solution

Oct 13, 2022
Miami-Dade County is trying to lure and train new bus operators using bonuses.
Jaime Sanchez has been a bus operator with Miami-Dade County for about 20 years. Miami-Dade County has a critical need to hire new bus operators to launch an improved system.
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Nonprofit hospitals weigh risks of accepting donations in cryptocurrency

Dec 14, 2021
Charities may face questions about taking bitcoin gifts that they wouldn't face with donations in other forms, like cash or stock.
Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images

Contact-tracing program aims to spread safety at Miami Beach businesses

Feb 10, 2021
The area's hospitality industry has suffered economically during the pandemic.
The North Beach Bandshell is an outdoor performance venue in Florida’s Miami Beach that’s part of a contact tracing program called Race to Trace.
Verónica Zaragovia

Florida's citrus industry has seen a sales boost during pandemic

Jul 1, 2020
Since January, the state has been promoting orange juice, using digital ads.
An orange grove in Fort Pierce, Florida, late last year.
Gianrigo Marletta/AFP via Getty Images

With COVID-19, some states reopen the ACA marketplace for uninsured

May 5, 2020
The health plans, available to gig workers and the self-employed, are seeing an "influx of enrollment," one expert says.
About a dozen states and Washington, D.C., opened special enrollment periods for people to sign up for Obamacare.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Iguana control businesses in Florida kept busy

Jul 25, 2019
Growing numbers of green iguanas, an invasive species in Florida, mean the business of iguana control is booming.
Perry Colato, co-owner of Redline Iguana Removal, holds a green iguana he caught using a cage trap in South Florida. His business is about a year old.
Verónica Zaragovia