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Frederica Wilson

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Boring Moderate Bill Nelson's Stance on Gay Marriage is Vaguely Boring and Moderate

    There are worse things for politicians to be than boring moderates, sure, but Bill Nelson is a boring moderate through and through. So, it's really no surprise that his stance on gay marriage is predictably off in some vague, boring, moderate middle land.

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Haitian President Michel Martelly Endorses Dr. Rudy Moise, Splits Congressional Race

    Dr. Rudy Moise is as colorful a character as you'll ever find in a congressional race. The millionaire physician has bankrolled B-movies to cast himself as the star and was accused of inserting his face into a memorial statue of Haitian soldiers that he'd paid for. There's also a very real chance he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Gloria Romero Roses, Random Person, to Run Against David Rivera as Democrat

    Democrats have finally found a candidate to take on vulnerable Republican incumbent congressman David Rivera. Her name is Gloria Romero Roses. She has no electoral experience, no name recognition, and doesn't even live close to the district. Oh boy.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Trayvon Martin Rally Planned for Sunday at Bayfront Park

    ​Thousands are expected to show up at Bayfront Park this weekend for a planned hometown rally to remember slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is organizing the rally, and Rev. Jesse Jackson and singer Chaka Kahn are scheduled to attend.

  • News

    March 29, 2012

    Federal Trayvon Martin probe is just a coverup

    ​Thousands are expected to show up at Bayfront Park this weekend for a planned hometown rally to remember slain 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson is organizing the rally, and Rev. Jesse Jackson and singer Chaka Kahn are scheduled to attend.

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2012

    Video: Rep. Bobby Rush Removed from House Floor for Wearing Hoodie for Trayvon Martin

    ​Congressman Bobby Rush III, a black Democrat from Illinois, was escorted off of the floor of the House of Representatives the morning after donning a hoodie to show his support from deceased Florida teen Trayvon Martin. The moment came just a day after House Democrats held a forum to discuss the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    The Federal Investigation Into Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Bound To Fail

    ​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. This week, Luke scoffs at the Justice Department's investigation into the death of Trayvon Martin.Ever since I heard the 911 tapes of 17- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Rudy Moise, Rich Guy with Auto-Tuned Campaign Ads, is Back to Challenge Rep. Frederica Wilson

    Guess who's back? Rudy! Rudy! Rudy Moise! Yes, the flashy millionaire who turned out one of the, uh, most memorable campaign ads of 2010 in his bid to capture Florida's 17th district is back to challenge the woman who defeated him last year, Rep. Frederica Wilson. He's already got his campaign websi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    David Rivera Has $8,000, Frederica Wilson is a Millionaire, and Local Politicos are Worth $170 Million

    David Rivera, multi-thousandaire.​Muckraking site OpenSecrets.org decided to throw some fire on the Occupy Movement this week by estimating the net worth of every single member of Congress, from mighty Darrell Issa with his $700 million to Florida pauper Alcee Hastings, who owes nearly $5 million ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    In Wake of FAMU Tragedy, Frederica Wilson to Draft Federal Anti-Hazing Bill

    ​About a month after the hazing-linked death of FAMU band member Robert Champion, Miami-area U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson has announced plans to introduce a bill that would clamp down on hazing on a federal level.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    After Missing Almost a Month of Votes, Frederica Wilson Returns to DC Today After Minor Surgery

    Today, The New York Times tallied up the list of U.S. Representatives who have missed the most votes so far this year. A local name popped up at 6th on the list: Frederica Wilson. The first term congresswoman from District 17 hasn't cast a vote since October 3rd. 

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Regalado Asks Feds To Investigate MPD Just As Police Union Pushes His Recall

    ​Still doubt that the beef between Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and his police chief Miguel Exposito has reached Biggie-vs-Tupac-ian heights? Here's some more kerosene to toss on the campfire: Regalado has just sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to investigate the killing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Elisha Dawkins, Immigrant Army Vet Jailed on Passport Charges, Rejects Deal

    Elisha L. Dawkins, the veteran of the U.S. Army and Navy who was jailed on a seemingly minor passport fraud charge only to discover he was not actually a US citizen, has rejected a deal that would see the charges dropped. Now, Dawkins' case will go to trial, and he could see up to ten years in jail ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 16, 2011

    Best of Miami: People & Places

    Elisha L. Dawkins, the veteran of the U.S. Army and Navy who was jailed on a seemingly minor passport fraud charge only to discover he was not actually a US citizen, has rejected a deal that would see the charges dropped. Now, Dawkins' case will go to trial, and he could see up to ten years in jail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Best of Miami 2011: Best Politician

    In anticipation of the upcoming Best of Miami issue hitting newsstands June 16, here is a sneak peek at one category and its winner.Photo by C. Stiles​Best PoliticianFrederica Wilson

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Miami-Area Congressional District is the Most Suffering in America

    via Firehouse2District 17's Liberty City​Gallup-Healthway's annual "Well Being Index" takes a wide-ranging reading of physical, emotional, and mental health of political districts on the state, metropolitan and congressional levels. The just-published statistics for 2010 don't give such a healthy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Families of Seven Men Killed in Police Shootings Speak At Commission Meeting Today

    ​Willa Mae Reed cries when she remembers the last time she saw her grandson, Tarnorris Tyrell Gaye. "He said he was getting a haircut, and he kissed me goodbye," Reed tells Riptide. "I still got a lot of questions about what happened next."Gaye was shot and killed by Miami police in December -- on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Rick Scott Owns the World's Ugliest Custom Cowboy Boots

    via The Buzz These boots were made for gawking. ​This isn't Texas, and no one really expects our governor to tramp around in cowboy boots. Maybe wearing the "official" Florida shoe, the flip-flop, would be appropriate, but cowboy boots? Well, it turns out Rick Scott has a thing for boots th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Miami Herald Endorses Loser Deadbeat for Second Time in Seven Months

    Oscar Braynon II is a new state senator because he is not just like Joe Celestin.​Good thing voters choosing a successor to Frederica Wilson's old state Senate seat don't put much stock in the Miami Herald's editorial board.Yesterday, former state Rep. Oscar Braynon II easily defeated ex-North Mia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Al Sharpton Wants Justice Department to Investigate Miami Police Department

    ​Mayor Tomás Regalado isn't the only powerful enemy Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito has made in his relatively short run atop the department. Now, national civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton is calling for a federal investigation into the Miami Police Department. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Frederica Wilson Recalls When the Mafia Threatened Her Son's Life

    ​Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who owns perhaps the most stunning collection of hats since Isabella Blow, has finally landed on the cover of a magazine. Unfortunately for Anna Wintour, it wasn't on her Vogue magazine, but rather the Washington Post Magazine. Though the photo shoot cert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    What's Kendrick Meek Up to Now? Just Making Weird Twitter Updates

    ​We haven't heard much out of Kendrick Meek since he came in third place in the senate race behind Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist. With the congressional seat he could have held for the rest of his life now held by the collection of hats known as Frederica Wilson, Meek hasn't made any formal announ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Marco Rubio, Frederica Wilson Make List of Congressional Hotties

    Marco Rubio Riptide, 4-eva!​It's widely accepted that, for a politician at least, newly minted Florida senator Marco Rubio is kind of a hottie. I mean, he doesn't quite have that Aaron Schock six-pack, but no one would be embarrassed& to be caught up in a D.C. sex scandal with him. So it's n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Leads Us Into Annoying New World of Live Tweets from House Floor

    ​Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen made history yesterday by making the first (semi-) authorized Tweet from the House Chamber of the U.S. Congress. The Republican congresswoman, whose Twitter is usually full of rooting for local football teams, live Tweeted a picture of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi handing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Candidates Line Up to Replace Frederica Wilson in Special State Senate Election

    ​>While Frederica Wilson is up in D.C. preparing to be sworn into the U.S. Congress, her seat in the Florida Senate sits empty. Yesterday, outgoing Governor Charlie Crist announced that the primary election to replace Wilson will take place on February 8, while the general election will be Mar ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Letters from the issue of December 2, 2010

    ​>While Frederica Wilson is up in D.C. preparing to be sworn into the U.S. Congress, her seat in the Florida Senate sits empty. Yesterday, outgoing Governor Charlie Crist announced that the primary election to replace Wilson will take place on February 8, while the general election will be Mar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Rep. Frederica Wilson Joins Two-Person "Cowboy Hat Caucus"

    via News-Leader​While freshman Rep. Frederica Wilson has more important things on her priority list she's still trying to get presumptive Speaker of the House John Boehner to let her wear her trademark hats while the House is in session. Well, she's found an unlikely alley in a conservative Republ ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

    Dave Barry: Bravely Navel-Gazing

    via News-Leader​While freshman Rep. Frederica Wilson has more important things on her priority list she's still trying to get presumptive Speaker of the House John Boehner to let her wear her trademark hats while the House is in session. Well, she's found an unlikely alley in a conservative Republ ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

    Miami People 2010

    The Magic City's 30 most interesting characters.

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Frederica Wilson's First Act In Washington: Banning Cell Phones In Cars With Kids

    ​Lost among the noise of a thousand tea baggings at the polls yesterday was the runaway victory of Frederica Wilson, the cowboy-hat rockin' Democrat who picked up 86 percent of the vote to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress. Wilson has never shied away from a fight -- her political career started w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    2010 Election Results Live Blog

    ​Will Florida gets its first female Governor? Will the country's first female Speaker of the House be forced to turn in her gavel? Will Kendrick Meek somehow shock the world by winning? Did anyone bother to get to know enough about the CFO race to bother voting? Join us tonight as we live blog the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Frederica Wilson's 25 Best Hats

    Frederica Wilson was the winner of the Democratic primary in Florida District 17, and will almost certainly fill the vacancy left behind by Kendrick Meek in the next United States Congress. She is also a state legislator, mother, grandmother, founder of the 5000 Role Models program, former principal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    What We Learned From Frederica Wilson: People Love Silly Hats

    Frederica Wilson and her hats won big last night.Prediction: Next election, silly hats are in. Rival school board candidates will rock diamond-plated mitres and Budweiser-stocked beer helmets. Marco Rubio will demolish Charlie Crist after finding a totally sweet plaid Tam O'Shanter at a garage sale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Marleine Bastien, Frederica Wilson Leading Crazed Race For Meek's Seat, Poll Says

    via Marleine Bastien for CongressBastien and Wilson have surged to the front in District 17, but the race is still wide open.​The crazed, Milwaukee sausage race of a contest to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress might finally be winnowing down to the real contenders, at least based on a poll releas ... More >>

  • News

    August 5, 2010

    Rudy Moise for Congress: Another rich-guy candidate

    via Marleine Bastien for CongressBastien and Wilson have surged to the front in District 17, but the race is still wide open.​The crazed, Milwaukee sausage race of a contest to replace Kendrick Meek in Congress might finally be winnowing down to the real contenders, at least based on a poll releas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Rudy Moise, Possibly Your Next Congressman, Writhes in a Straitjacket With Vivica Fox

    Coming to a theater near you next month: Rudy Moise's latest self-financed action flick.​With a bumper crop of utterly shady rich guys threatening to run off with our Senate and governor's races, it's been easy to forget that South Florida also has open House seats to fill.But if political theater ... 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

    May 8, 2009

    Hats The Musical Starring Senator Frederica Wilson

    State Senator Frederica Wilson has Practical hats. She has dramatical hats. She also has pragmatical hats, fanatical hats, oratorical hats, delphioracle hats, skeptical hats, dispeptical hats, romantical hats, pedantical hats, critical hats, parasitical hats, and so on and so forth.Herald/Times  ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    News Roundup

    LocalFinally, after ten long years, the Marlins will have a new home to lose in! Just kidding. Let's hope now they'll have the decency to build up a World Series-worthy team and then not sell off all of their star talent. [Herald]Patients at the Veterans Hospital might have been exposed to HIV and o ... More >>

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    To Serve and Protect and Intimidate

    A school teacher is beaten senseless by Miami Beach police, then his life is allegedly threatened, now he's gone

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Little Goes A Long Way

    Immigration attorney Cheryl Little spent years banging her head against INS bureaucracy, until a Haitian boat cracked it open

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    A New Political Complexion

    Come next week, the City of North Miami will be a very different place

  • News

    August 24, 2000

    Schoolhouse Knocks

    Although the Liberty City Charter School helped make Jeb Bush governor, four years on it's barely passing

  • News

    November 25, 1999

    How to Succeed in Education Without Really Studying, Part 2

    The high and mighty rushed to the aid of dubiously degreed schools superintendent Roger Cuevas

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Who's Afraid of Virginia Key?

    The race to develop Virginia Key is missing only one itsy-bitsy thing: Public input

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Chairman of the Board

    Folks don't know much about school board chairman Solomon Stinson, but they do know this: Don't cross him

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    The Name Game

    True or False: The county's newest addition to public education was christened Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School because that's what taxpayers wanted

  • News

    April 20, 1995

    After the Brawl

    Everybody heard about the tussle between white cops and black students but the discord at Coral Gables High goes far deeper than that

  • News

    January 20, 1993

    The Dynamic Duo

    Their flocks have multiplied despite past controversy. But can the Revs. Victor Curry and Richard Dunn preach politics?

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