. 1980s to 1990s, Green 633 0.04% Average precipitation inches (mm) 1.62, Alice Wainwright Park Brickell 1964 56.1% 933,554 41.3% 686,297 Main article: Florida Bay. The Stephen P Clark Government Center in Downtown Miami is the headquarters of the Miami-Dade County government. On June 27 2005 the popular ex-city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Miami Herald headquarters dropped off a package for columnist Jim DeFede and told the security guard to tell his wife Stephanie he "loved her" before pulling out a gun and committing suicide His suicide happened the day the alternative weekly Miami New Times published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that Teele had sex with a transsexual prostitute and used cocaine At the time Teele was being investigated by federal authorities for fraud and money laundering for allegedly taking $59,000 in kickbacks to help a businessman get millions of dollars in contracts at Miami International Airport Teele was suspended from his job in 2004 by Florida governor Jeb Bush after being arrested for trying to run a police officer off the road Teele was also charged in December 2004 with ten counts of unlawful compensation on charges he took $135,000 from TLMC Inc promising that it would be awarded lucrative contracts to redevelop neighborhoods in Miami Teele was also found guilty in March 2005 for threatening an undercover detective!
Miami Executive Airport, ARWU 401-500 University rankings Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center. Tamarac The South Florida recording industry started in Miami in the 1950s with Criteria Studios recording top selling albums such as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by the Eagles Local music entrepreneur Henry Stone and his label TK Records created the local indie scene in the 1970s T K Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright George McCrae and Jimmy "Bo" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits many influenced by Caribbean music Tom Dowd an innovator in music engineering worked out of Miami for many years and worked with a plethora of artists including Aretha Franklin Ray Charles Eric Clapton Lynyrd Skynyrd Tom Petty also came out of South Florida. Miami-Fort Lauderdale is the 12th largest radio market and the 16th-largest television market in the U.S television stations serving the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area include WAMI-TV (UniMas) WBFS-TV (MyNetworkTV) WSFL-TV (The CW) WFOR-TV (CBS) WHFT-TV (TBN) WLTV (Univision) WPLG (ABC) WPXM (ION) WSCV (Telemundo) WSVN (FOX) WTVJ (NBC) WLRN-TV (PBS) and WPBT (also PBS) the latter television station being the only channel to serve the entire metropolitan area, At the end of the third quarter of 2008 Florida had the highest mortgage delinquency rate in the U.S. with 7.8% of mortgages delinquent at least 60 days a 2009 list of national housing markets that were hard hit in the real estate crash included a disproportionate number in Florida the early 21st-century building boom left Florida with 300,000 vacant homes in 2009 according to state figures in 2009 the US Census Bureau estimated that Floridians spent an average 49.1% of personal income on housing-related costs the third highest percentage in the U.S. . . 1 Major league teams See also: List of airports in Florida and Aviation in Florida Presidential elections results. .
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