David Smiley’s reporting in the Jan. 24 article, Politicians say Miami ‘slums’ prove need for new state laws, connected the dots and it didn’t take long to reflect on them. The same man is ...

In 1985, he became the first Roman Catholic to be elected mayor of Miami Beach, got re-elected and ultimately served an unprecedented third term. However, in 1992, he was convicted of bribery after ...

Alexia Fodere for The Miami Herald Alex Daoud, Miami Beach’s mayor as South Beach began to rise from a beachfront slum to one of the world’s style and party centers before going to federal ...