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• 11-year-old hit by dirt bike during police pursuit on Miami Beach; commissioner vows action against stunt bikers (wsvn.com) — An 11-year-old girl suffered minor injuries after a dirt bike rider, fleeing Miami Beach Police on Ocean Drive, struck her while riding on the sidewalk and then kept going. Surveillance video shows groups of non-street-legal bikes riding recklessly through the Art Deco Cultural District before officers intervened. A Miami Beach commissioner now vows to crack down on stunt bikers, as witnesses call for stronger action to protect residents and visitors.
• 'Costs almost doubled': Longstanding Black film festival leaves Miami Beach (miamiherald.com) — A long-running Black film festival that helped define Miami Beach's cultural scene is relocating to Los Angeles, largely because hotel and production costs here have nearly doubled since 2019. Organizers and tourism officials describe how rising room rates, the loss of the Lincoln Road Regal cinema, and the need to build temporary theaters at the Miami Beach Convention Center made staying financially unsustainable, even as they leave the door open to future pop-up events locally.
• Florida's Blueprint for Survival: How the Sunshine State is Reshaping Coastal Defense for a Rising Sea (englewoodreview.com) — Miami Beach residents are seeing climate adaptation up close, from routine street flooding that once made parking impossible to new elevated housing like the Vista Breeze senior project built ten feet above sea level. The story follows local innovators designing 3D-printed living seawalls, resilient buildings, and future "sponge parks" as part of a broader Florida push to live with higher seas and stronger storms rather than simply walling water out.
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