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  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    Florida Cop Dresses as Electric Company Worker to Snoop For Pot Without Warrant

    ​Florida cops, it seems, will do just about anything to find that marijuana plant growing in your closet. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether Miami police violated the Constitution by routinely sniffing around suspected grow houses with drug-smelling dogs without first getting a search ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    "We're Screwed": Florida Republicans Punished with Crappy Convention Hotel Rooms and Loss of VIP Passes

    ​For the second time in the row, Florida politicians decided to ignore the rules of the Republican National Committee and moved ahead with their plan for an early primary. Like 2008, this means that Florida Republicans will lose half of their delegates at the national convention, but this time aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Lesbian Couple Denied Name Change Because Their Marriage "Means Nothing to the State of Florida"

    via WTSP The Lambert-Jolleys​As Florida residents, Rachel and Charlotte Lambert-Jolley knew that their marriage in Connecticut, where same sex weddings are legal, wouldn't be recognized in their own home state. They at least hoped, however, that it would help expedite the process of legally changi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    The Tea Party Has a New Enemy in Florida: Water Fluoridation

    ​Despite being a common practice in developed countries for nearly 70 years and dubbed "one of the greatest public health achievements of the century" by the CDC, water fluoridation has joined the likes of Charlie Crist and Barack Obama as the latest enemy of the Tea Party in Florida. Tea Par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Drunk Florida Man Calls 911 Because Taco Bell Won't Serve Him Tacos

    ​Terry Lynn Kimbell, 50, of Pinellas County, was in a classic conundrum Tuesday evening: He was drunk and wanted Taco Bell. But by that time of night, Taco Bell was serving its hot, meaty fast food only through the drive-thru, so he decided to walk through it. When employees refused to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    Prolific 71-Year-Old Graffiti Tagger Arrested in Dunedin

    ​You'd think graffiti would be a young man's game. Especially the kind of down-and-dirty, illegal type that requires taggers to covertly leave their mark while being prepared to run like hell if anyone catches them. Well, there's always an exception to the rule.Meet 71-year-old Charles Ignatius We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Marco Rubio Skips CPAC: Is He Purposefully Shunning the Conservative Movement?

    Rubio has real estate right next to Glenn Beck on this year's CPAC banner​Last year Marco Rubio delivered the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Headlining perhaps one of the most important centralized Conservative events in the country officially made Rubio a right wi ... More >>

  • Music

    January 13, 2011

    Buju Banton plays Bayfront Park Amphitheater January 16

    Rubio has real estate right next to Glenn Beck on this year's CPAC banner​Last year Marco Rubio delivered the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Headlining perhaps one of the most important centralized Conservative events in the country officially made Rubio a right wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Buju Banton Rides Drug Trial Up the Charts As Fans Demand His Release

    ​Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Florida Congressman Wants to Move Gitmo to Alcatraz

    Now that it's official -- Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and we've all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugly heads: What do we do with the 245 guys left in Gitmo? Especially the truly dangerous ones, who we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    State Rep Wants Superintendent to Be Elected

    Now that it's official -- Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and we've all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugly heads: What do we do with the 245 guys left in Gitmo? Especially the truly dangerous ones, who we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Carvalho's Liaison

    Now that it's official -- Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and we've all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugly heads: What do we do with the 245 guys left in Gitmo? Especially the truly dangerous ones, who we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    School Board Wants Carvahlo to Replace Crew

    Now that it's official -- Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and we've all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugly heads: What do we do with the 245 guys left in Gitmo? Especially the truly dangerous ones, who we ... More >>

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    From Bitter to Sweet

    Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

  • News

    August 12, 2004

    Until Proven Guilty

    24 HOURS. 1 FULL MOON. 265 Arrests.

  • Music

    August 1, 2002

    Stierheim in Brief

    24 HOURS. 1 FULL MOON. 265 Arrests.

  • City Life

    May 16, 2002
  • News

    February 12, 1998

    A Double-Wide Life

    With county officials and neighbors determined to squeeze them out, mobile home owners have become an endangered species

  • News

    October 30, 1997

    Go Directly to Court

    In a high-stakes showdown, Miami hopes to put some muscle on its enfeebled Nuisance Abatement Board

  • News

    March 21, 1996

    Jailhouse Rumble

    If racial strife and political bickering were crimes, the entire staff of Dade County's corrections department would be locked up

  • News

    July 13, 1995

    Dialing Your Dollars

    You say you haven't got a cellular phone? Heck, you own hundreds of 'em! And right now some local bureaucrat is using one to make a hairdressing appointment.

  • News

    June 16, 1993

    Death and Profits

    When Hugh Westbrook pioneered hospice care, his organization saw to the needs of the dying. Fifteen years later nothing has changed -- except the politics and the profit margins.

  • News

    December 16, 1992

    Stop! Thief! C-R-U-N-C-H!

    The good old days of high-speed police chases (and the resulting mayhem) are about to end

  • News

    July 18, 1990

    Nothing Personal

    Dade County peddles public records - including yours - for a profit

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