Personal Finance

Miami Beach Passes Tax Equality Policy That Gives Tax Breaks to Coupled Gay Employees

Employees of the city of Miami Beach in same-sex domestic partnerships will no longer have to pay more taxes for their partner's health insurance than their married counterparts. The City Commission today passed a landmark tax equality policy that will reimburse those employees for the difference in ... More >>

Marco Rubio Got an $800,000 Advance on His Book, Finally Paid Off His College Loans

Throughout his rocket-ship ride to the top of the GOP, Marco Rubio has fought to keep some financial skeletons from tumbling out of his closet. There were thousands in questionable credit card charges, a six-figure student loan debt, the Tally house (shared with David Rivera) that went into foreclos ... More >>

Tax Refund Scams Plagued Miami-Dade In 2012

With another tax season descending on us, you might want to secure your W-2 or 1099 a little tighter. Over the past 12 months, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami has uncovered more than a dozen rackets involved in stealing tax refund checks using stolen identities of social security applicants, eld ... More >>

Florida Ranked 34th Most Healthy State in the Station, Which Makes Us Pretty Healthy for the South

You'd think with all our good weather and miles of sandy beaches, Floridians would have extra reason to stay healthy, but no. According to the latest edition of United Health Foundation's America's Health Rankings, Florida is only ranked the 34th most healthy state in the nation. Of course, we are o ... More >>

For-Profit Colleges Cheat Students and Get Away With It

Luke's Gospel: Obamacare Is as American as Apple Pie and Free Speech

Obamacare Ruled Constitutional By Supreme Court; Sorry, Pam Bondi

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has upheld President Obama's health care mandate, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the surprising, deciding vote that the sweeping reform is constitutional. The ruling is a blow to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who spearheaded the first national court ch ... More >>

Obamacare Is American As Apple Pie and Free Speech

Luther Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Today, Luke weighs in on Obamacare. As someone who's knows what it's like to fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, I'm very happy for ... More >>

Marco Rubio Still Has More Than $100,000 in Student Loans

Still bogged down by ridiculous student loans? Don't even worry about it. Obviously, if you work real, real hard in the name of this great country of America and love capitalism enough you'll pay them off in no time.Oh, wait, what's that? Senator Marco Rubio, who is 41 years old, is still bogged dow ... More >>

Reader Mail: Calling Obama "Too Cool" Isn't Racist

White House Confuses University of Miami for That Ohio School

President Barack Obama was just at the University of Miami, so you'd think that his staff could get the name of the school correct. Apparently not. The White House sent out a press release today describing University of Miami president Donna Shalala as "President of Miami University." Miami Uni ... More >>

Ex-students say Jet University flight school was bogus

Blowfly Ate Out Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party at The Stage, and the Bitches Loved It

​Bruise Cruise Kickoff Party, Day One With Blowfly, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Togas, Mikal Cronin, and Deaf Poets The Stage Miami Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Better Than: Not seeing an elderly dude talk to a 23-year-old girl about eating her pussy. Whoever tipped America up like a pachin ... More >>

Rick Scott Pays Just $360-a-year For His Taxpayer-Subsidized Health Insurance

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average health plan costs an American family $13,770 in premiums a year. Governor Rick Scott pays just $360 to insure himself and his wife thanks to a state Government plan he's enrolled in. Yep. the average American pays 38.25 percent more for their he ... More >>

Miami-Dade commissioners are rich!

Geoffrey Zakarian Files for Personal Bankruptcy

Geoffrey Zakarian and Scott Conant at South Beach Wine & Food Festival​Celebrity chef and restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian filed for personal bankruptcy after several lawsuits were filed against him by former restaurant employees and partners, according to The New York Times. Zakarian, a j ... More >>

The Average Miamian Makes $36,357 Per Year

​The Federal Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its county-level estimates of per capita personal income (total personal income divided by population) for 2009, and apparently the people of Miami-Dade brought in $36,357 each on average. That's a much smaller figure than most of our neighbori ... More >>

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Report: Florida's Unemployment May Not Drop Below 6% Until 2020

​The good news is that Florida's economy has pretty much no where to go but up. The bad news is that it's going to take a long time to get it their. An economic forecast published by Sean Snaith, director of the University of Central Florida's Institute for Economic Competitiveness, states that, " ... More >>

Florida Judge Worried Obama Might Make Us All Buy Broccoli

via​A federal judge today began hearing arguments in outgoing Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's lawsuit against the Federal Government, which alleges that forcing citizens to buy health insurance is unconstitutional. The trial is expected to be an in-depth, mature and scholarly proceeding. ... More >>

Class Action Suit Filed Against University of Miami for Racially Discriminatory Hiring Practices

The University of Miami touts its diverse student and faculty population proudly, but a new lawsuit filed against the school claims it practices racial discrimination in its hiring policies. Though, there's no complaint that UM is judging applicants directly on the color of their skin, rather the sc ... More >>

Marco Rubio is in A Whole Lot of Personal Debt, May Have Used Party Money to Redo His Kitchen

Marco Rubio talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and his ideas to save the economy. He also talks a lot about the national debt and ways to balance the budget. So you'd think the guy would have his own finances in order. Not true. Today, The Wall Street Journal singles Rubio out as one of the can ... More >>

Uncle Luke schools LeBron James and Chris Bosh on living in Miami-Dade County

Free Credit Report Band Contest Finalists On TV Tonight; We Handicap Their Chances

The Free Credit Report band is out, and a new act will be the face of Free Credit Score.​It's no surprise, but when we announced this past May that the Free Credit Report (dot-com) band was kaput, people had some pretty strong reactions. What is a surprise, though, is that some of those strong rea ... More >>

The Free Credit Report Band is Dead; Relive Its Top Five Most Annoying Commercials

​You've groaned at the poor sap stuck working in a fish joint. You've cringed as he's serenaded a renaissance fair. You've run for the bathroom when he roped his friends in for a gleeful group chorus about bicycles. Hopefully, though, you didn't actually get snowed into signing up for the site for ... More >>

Kendrick Meek Attacks Jeff Greene By Comparing Him To 1950s TV Character Your Parents Barely Remember

​Senate candidate Kendrick Meek is now facing a self-financed billionaire in the Democratic primary. In fact, that billionaire, Jeff Greene, already has TV ads running all over the state. So how does Meek fight back? By drawing a quirky correlation to a current and relevant pop culture phenomenon ... More >>

Alex Sink's Confusing Response to Health-Care Reform

​We've had a hard time figuring out where presumptive gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink lies on the Democratic Party's spectrum.Is she a dyed-in-the-wool, bleeding-heart liberal? Eh, probably not.Is she a staunch Blue Dog? Doesn't quite seem like it.Is she, like so many Florida politicians, a cautio ... More >>

President Obama fails to go after those responsible for the financial meltdown

Floridians Sure Have Some Funny Ideas About Health Care Reform

via A R B O's flickr​According to a new Quinnipiac poll, 58% of Floridians support creating a government health insurance plan, while only 36% oppose it. So it should be good news for supporters of the so-called "public option" that voters in a notoriously moderate swing state seem to be ... More >>

Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Misleads Citizens

The county's online property search doesn't disclose foreclosures.

Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Lies

​The Banana has a friend named Betty, who earlier this year picked up a two-bedroom condo on Brickell Avenue for $109,000. Betty got the unit at a bargain because it was in foreclosure. But you wouldn't know that by checking the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser's online property search databas ... More >>

Report Says Miami is Full of (Broke) Ballers

Image via Little Miss Sunshine.'s flickr/CCMaybe Riptide has been living off of spaghetti and buying beer with couch change for too long. Maybe seeing the parade of Hummers and yachts in South Beach rubs salt in the wound. Maybe. Because it's not very nice. It's kind of mean, actually, that a recen ... More >>

Nannies: The Latest Victims of the Recession

What was she to do, where was she to go? She was out on her fanny. Recession stories are getting pretty standard, and boring. One formula goes like this: find some nice industry and find out how the recession is hitting it. CNN just filed one, about nannies, focusing mainly on Miami. Amanda Mezyk is ... More >>

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 >>

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South Florida's Stadium Madness

Billions of taxpayer dollars feed the frenzy.

Tenth in Foreclosure Isn't A Stat To Be Proud Off

Tomas Regalado Is the $5,000 Man

And he's doing just fine, thank you.

Weekly News Wrap - Chavez, Imus, Iran, the CIA and more

Hip-Hop Summit Wrap-Up

Hip-Hop Action Summit This Saturday at Florida Memorial University

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Broad Causeway

Eads's Greed

When the Coral Gables city manager leaves his post, he may be a very rich man

Best Place To Drink And Watch The News Go By

The bar at the Capital Grille

Mortgaging His Future

Greasing the Squeaky Deal

Going for Broke

On South Beach it's easy. Just buy yourself a cute little building and dump a pile of money into it. The rest will take care of itself.