{"id":216314,"date":"2026-04-02T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216314\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:24:19","slug":"miami-today-the-newspaper-for-the-future-of-miami-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216314\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Today &#8211; The Newspaper for the Future of Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/2026\/04\/01\/answer-to-mental-health-center-dilemma-is-easy-just-open-it\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/timthumb.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Answer to mental health center dilemma is easy: just open it\" title=\"Answer to mental health center dilemma is easy: just open it\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nIf Miami-Dade\u2019s mentally ill who cycle year after year through crime, then jail and then homelessness were voters, the county would long ago have opened its $51 million mental health center designed to end both that cycle and the cost of jailing them.<\/p>\n<p>Our streets would be safer. Our justice system would cost less. And some wasted human lives \u2013 who knows how many? \u2013 would become more productive, healthier and happier.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">April 1, 2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/2026\/04\/01\/answer-to-mental-health-center-dilemma-is-easy-just-open-it\/\" title=\"Permalink to Answer to mental health center dilemma is easy: just open it\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/2026\/04\/01\/julissa-kepner-chairing-the-greater-miami-convention-visitors-bureau\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775150659_346_timthumb.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Julissa Kepner: Chairing the Greater Miami Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau\" title=\"Julissa Kepner: Chairing the Greater Miami Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nAs chair of the Greater Miami Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau board, Julissa Kepner has been guiding the organization responsible for promoting Miami-Dade County as one of the world\u2019s premier travel destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Kepner has championed a strategy that positions Greater Miami at the forefront of global convention and leisure travel \u2013 leveraging cultural programming, neighborhood storytelling, digital marketing innovation, and a growing calendar of international events.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Kepner said the coming years\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">April 1, 2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/2026\/04\/01\/julissa-kepner-chairing-the-greater-miami-convention-visitors-bureau\/\" title=\"Permalink to Julissa Kepner: Chairing the Greater Miami Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Miami-Dade\u2019s mentally ill who cycle year after year through crime, then jail and then homelessness were voters,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-216314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}