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Domestic Policy

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    TSA Employees Trash South Beach Hotel Room, Shoot Guns in Air

    ​Two Transportation Security Administration officers are under arrest after trashing a South Beach hotel room last night and then shooting off guns into the air. The shots first rang out at about 11:15 last night near a hotel on the 800 block of Collins Avenue.

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Jackson Memorial Apparently Only Hospital in the South That Cares About Gay People

    ​We wouldn't wish a trip to Jackson Memorial Hospital on our worst enemies. Yet according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign, the public Jackson Health System is the only hospital in the entire southern United States cited this year for providing equal care to LGBT patients. That's a b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Rick Scott's Major Failure: Legislature Won't Eliminate Corporate Income Tax

    ​Florida is undergoing a radical conservative transformation under Gov. Rick Scott, but one of his top proposals seems to be a bridge too far and too soon even for the Republican supermajorities in the state House and Senate.Even at a time when billion-dollar deficits have become the norm for Flor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    Miami Northwestern Students Get Shaft From Education Bureaucrats

    Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith says no to Miami Northwestern.An assistant principal's mistake led Miami Northwestern High to get graded a D instead of a C last year. But the state's education commissioner won't grant Miami-Dade Public Schools' request to give Northwestern the higher grade. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Cuban Operative Posada Carriles' English Questioned in Court

    via newscomHow good is Luis Posada Carriles' English? That has become a central issue in the trial of the 82-year-old Cuban, who is charged with 11 counts of perjury, obstruction and immigration fraud for lying during immigration proceedings. On Wednesday, Federal prosecutors played tapes of the CI ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    J. Nics's Stimulus Package EP

    ​To close out the year, Crossfade is picking out its favorite albums by 305 artists. Read the full list of Miami's Best Albums of 2010 here.J. NicsStimulus Package (Self-Released)J. Nics has risen tremendously since releasing his first collection of tracks in December 2009. His very first release ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Arizona-Style Immigration Bill Introduced in Florida Senate

    ​Well, with Rick Scott set to take the Governor's chair and Republicans with super-majorities in both houses of the legislature, it was only a matter of time before the Florida GOP got cracking on delivering Arizona-style immigration laws in the sunshine state. Senate President Pro Tempore Mik ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Alan Grayson Auditions for MSNBC on the House Floor

    ​Our fellow Floridians in the Orlando area resoundingly kicked Rep. Alan Grayson out of office this election in a 19 point defeat. Apparently they do not care that the rest of America enjoys being entertained by his off-the-wall speeches on the House floor. He's already told Dick Cheney to literal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Kendrick Meek, Undocumented Students Rally at Miami-Dade College In Favor of DREAM Act

    ​Standing before a row of undocumented Miami-Dade College students downtown this morning, Senate hopeful Kendrick Meek urged Congress to pass a long-debated bill that would give college graduates and military members a quick path to full citizenship. Democrats plan to attach the DREAM Act to a def ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    World Hunger: Good News, Bad News

    ​First, the good news: The number of chronically hungry people in the world has dropped for the first time in 15 years, according to "The State of Food Insecurity in the World" report that will be jointly released by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2010

    Abortion Fights Crime?

    ​First, the good news: The number of chronically hungry people in the world has dropped for the first time in 15 years, according to "The State of Food Insecurity in the World" report that will be jointly released by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Mario Diaz-Balart Lies About Alex Sink's Stance on Arizona Immigration Laws

    ​Rick Scott, now the official Republican nominee for Governor, has made Arizona-style immigration laws a main issue in the election. The controversial laws are none-too-popular amongst Hispanic voters (in fact, some are theorizing that Bill McCollum's hard right flip-flop in favor of them may have ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Miami Activists Deliver Letter to Bill McCollum: Florida Doesn't Need Arizona's SB 1070

    ​At 10:30 this morning, twenty local activists will descend on Attorney General Bill McCollum's Miami office on Brickell Avenue bearing a letter with a simple message: Back off Arizona's SB 1070. McCollum, the brilliant legal mind who spent six figures of your tax dollars to hire Rent Boy ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2010

    Badlands: From ground zero of the immigration crisis along the Mexican border

    ​At 10:30 this morning, twenty local activists will descend on Attorney General Bill McCollum's Miami office on Brickell Avenue bearing a letter with a simple message: Back off Arizona's SB 1070. McCollum, the brilliant legal mind who spent six figures of your tax dollars to hire Rent Boy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Abortion Bill Requiring Ultrasounds Passes Florida House

    a first trimester ultrasound image​After Democrats shut down the body yesterday and hours of heated debate (during which young children were advised to leave the chamber) the Florida House has approved controversial language in a health care bill concerning abortion. During the debate, one member ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Fox News Wonders if Local Mom Battling Leukemia is "First 'Death Panel' Victim"

    ​In the News Roundup each morning we've been keeping an eye on the plight of Diana Smith, a local mother battling a rare form of leukemia. Smith was almost denied a life saving treatment when Social Security disability payments made to her son raised her income enough to where she no longer qualif ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2010

    Luke's Gospel: Legalizing marijuana will fix the economy

    ​In the News Roundup each morning we've been keeping an eye on the plight of Diana Smith, a local mother battling a rare form of leukemia. Smith was almost denied a life saving treatment when Social Security disability payments made to her son raised her income enough to where she no longer qualif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Legalizing Pot Will Fix the Economy

    Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Up this week, Luke makes the case for legalizing marijuana across the nation, beginning in Miami-Dade County.Off the bat, I am not a weed he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Weak New Standards For Food In Schools

    Photo by Lee KleinThey say the $4.5 billion dollars spent will yield a leaner hamburger​The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee approved legislation on Wednesday that would allow the Agriculture Department to create new standards for all foods in schools, including vending machines. This translates ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Health Care Reform Passes, No Thanks To Your South Florida Politicos

    If you're half as cool as the staff here at Riptide, you were flipping between March Madness and C-SPAN last night like your life depended on it. Which to pick?photo by Sage Ross, via Wikimedia CommonsThe power of cardboard signs and megaphones was not enough to derail health reform.On CBS, Korie Lu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Florida Legislature Protects Gun Owners' Adoption Rights, Still Doesn't Care About Gays

    ​A senseless bill that would prevent adoption agencies from discriminating against gun owners overwhelming passed the state legislature, and is headed to Gov. Charlie Crist's desk.The problem: there's absolutely no evidence that prospective adoptive parents in Florida have ever been "discriminated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Democrat Maurice Ferre Doesn't Back Democrat Health Plan One Day After Democrat Loss

    ​Former Mayor of Miami Maurice Ferre, who somehow thinks he is running for US Senate even though he is trailing in the primary race for the party that is trailing in the general election race, has announced that he doesn't support the Democratic healthcare plan.  "It is a special-interest pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Crist Looking to Bolster Conservative Credentials: Maybe Should Concentrate on Being a Good Governor Instead

    In an interview with Time, Charlie Crist and his senate campaign manager Eric Eikenberg say that in the face of Marco Rubio's right-wing threat, the Governor new tactic will be to bolster his conservative credentials while casting doubts on Rubio's. [Crist and Eikenberg] described a counterattack fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Marco Rubio May Not Have Hugged Obama, but He Would Have Taken His Stimulus Money

    The most effective and frequent bit in Marco Rubio's senate campaign ads: that picture of Republican rival Charlie Crist embracing Barack Obama at a rally for the president's stimulus plan. Of course, every Republican Governor ended up accepting money from the stimulus plan, including your mor ... More >>

  • News

    July 2, 2009

    Illegal Immigrant Crackdown

    Can you say "profiling"?

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    Hialeah Boat Captain Gets 3 Years for Human Smuggling

    The young Hialeah boat captain caught transporting eight immigrants to Boynton Beach this past January will serve up to three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra sentenced 28-year-old Jovel Dominguez-Hernandez to 36 months yesterday for human smuggling. The indictment notes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    News Roundup

    LocalVice President Biden tried to butter up reps from the biggest union in all the land, AFL-CIO, so they'd support the stimulus bill during a meeting in Miami Beach yesterday. [AP]He also announced $8.4 billion from the stimulus package will benefit transportation, and called the Miami Intermodal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    UM Addresses The Impact of Econ Crisis

    Nothing is immune to the economic crisis, not even the palm tree'd oasis in Coral Gables known as the University of Miami. After many alumnus expressed their concern, president Donna Shalala sent out a letter to all alum today addressing the impact on UM. Here's the highlights: UM has made a lot of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Manny Diaz is Deeply Disappointed by Bobby Jindal, Too

    via Urban BrownWould Chuck Strouse have better luck selling these in Miami parking lots? Poor Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal can not catch a break. Everyone from freebase-Twitter addict Rick Sanchez to semi-Conservative Columnist David Brooks is criticizing his speech on Tuesday night, in which he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    The Excited Kid At the Obama Rally. There is a Video of Him.

    The stimulus package Barack Obama is pushing will be a defining part of his presidency, and these events that he's held the past couple of days should be treated as sort of historic. Yet, at the end of the day all we care about is that Obama said some funny thing about Charlie Crist and a hose and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Democrats Already Targeting Diaz-Balarts for 2010

    Republican Congressmen Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart seem dead set against voting for Washington Democrat's proposed $825 billion stimulus plan, even as the popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist is lobbying for the plan. In the first sign that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe may b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2008

    Castroneves Charged with Tax Evasion

    Republican Congressmen Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart seem dead set against voting for Washington Democrat's proposed $825 billion stimulus plan, even as the popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist is lobbying for the plan. In the first sign that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe may b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    The Bailout, Never Forget

    Republican Congressmen Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart seem dead set against voting for Washington Democrat's proposed $825 billion stimulus plan, even as the popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist is lobbying for the plan. In the first sign that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe may b ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 22, 2008

    Booyaka, Booyaka

    Republican Congressmen Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart seem dead set against voting for Washington Democrat's proposed $825 billion stimulus plan, even as the popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist is lobbying for the plan. In the first sign that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe may b ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2008

    Jam Anyone's Cell Phone

    That turd talking while driving deserves it!

  • News

    January 10, 2008

    The Deadly Road Through Mexico

    When Cubans leave their homeland, things can get lots worse.

  • News

    October 25, 2007

    Joyce Kaufman Hates Immigrants!

    Well, not exactly. But she sure doesn’t speak well of them.

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Miami Gun Rhapsody

    Who's packing heat in the Magic City? You don't have to conceal your curiosity a second longer

  • News

    October 31, 2002

    Submarine Politics

    Alex Penelas learned his lesson in 1999; this year's transit-tax campaign is all below the surface

  • City Life

    May 17, 2001

    Best New Law

    Gun locks

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Anatomy of a Quarantine

    State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    The Knight of Blight

    Miami developer Aristides Martinez once seemed an inner-city savior. Today he goes by another name: Slumlord.

  • News

    January 28, 1999

    A Pirate's Mutiny

    Miami's unlicensed radio stations are pumping up the jams despite the FCC's efforts to shut them up

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Do-It-Yourself Radio

    To start your own station, all you need is a little space, ingenuity, and chutzpah

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    The Smuggler as Savior

    Juan Garcia Pino was obeying a higher law when he rescued nineteen family members fleeing Cuba. But a more mundane law ruined everything.

  • News

    October 19, 1995

    Count the People Who Count

    A trio of exile groups mounts a new challenge to monopoly control of local Spanish-language radio

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    Reach Out and Really Touch Someone

    Late last year thousands of people learned that the "free" calls they'd been making to Cuba weren't really free. Now the bills are arriving.

  • News

    October 27, 1993

    Shiver Me Timbers!

    Turn to 88.3 on your FM dial, where a pirate radio station is flying the Jolly Roger on Miami's broadcast seas and making plenty of waves

  • News

    March 3, 1993

    Call While You Can

    Much to AT&T's dismay, foreign companies have found a way around the restrictions on calling Cu ba from the U.S. -- for now, at least

  • News

    January 27, 1993

    Pistol Packin' Politicos

    It's a fair bet that your favorite Dade big shot is a sure shot, too

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