The revolution is here. Knox Medical, one the state’s largest medical marijuana companies and the only one based here, opened its first local dispensary about two weeks ago at 175 NW 167th St. in North Miami Beach. The company plans five stores in Miami-Dade County, a Knox spokesman, Scott Klenet, said this…
Bernardo Benes, maybe more than anyone else, made Miami the capital of Latin America it is today. He also made himself an outcast. After becoming one of the first influential bankers in Miami by climbing the ranks at Washington Savings and Loan Association — long before Brickell became the finance…
Twice a week, John Kondelka, a 96-year-old Air Force veteran, boards a Go-Go Grampa bus in Hollywood and rides an hour or so, all the way to Kendall, to see his 92-year-old lady friend, an also-retired social worker and flight attendant named Genevieve Kennedy. He wears a string tie sometimes. She’s, well,…
Miami New Times is looking for a freelance reporter to cover Florida’s burgeoning marijuana scene. The ideal candidate will have a college degree and at least one year of experience reporting on public policy for a credible news publication.
Two court decisions and a petition drive could spark a revolution.
Mayor’s son offers hope.
This year, more than a million readers learned the full story behind the accusations against the late rapper XXXTentacion. Weeks before he was murdered, reporter Tarpley Hitt was granted an exclusive interview with the controversial artist, in which he said, “Would I change anything about my journey? Fuck, no.” There was…
With federal judge Ursula Ungaro’s decision to throw out a lawsuit against BuzzFeed News in U.S. District Court in Miami Wednesday, President Donald Trump took a body blow. Ungaro rejected a suit filed by Aleksej Gubarev, the head of Webzilla, an Aventura-based tech company, that asserted BuzzFeed’s publication of the so-called Trump…
North Bay Village is made up of three tiny islands in the middle of Biscayne Bay. But it has the best politics. Not long ago, the police chief, city attorney, and several other key officials were fired. Then old pro Manager Frank Rollason, his deputy manager, and a secretary quit. In…
The best news for Democrats from the recent midterm elections was that Florida’s racist and ridiculously difficult road to voting rights restoration for felons was overturned — you know, the one that stopped one in five black voters from casting ballots. Now it looks as if Republicans don’t want to…
Rick Scott has been a friend to the deadly red tide that has killed millions of fish, fouled beaches in Southwest Florida, and even endangered Miami’s multibillion-dollar tourist industry. He has cut environmental regulation and limited crackdowns on sugar companies that dump fertilizer into the groundwater, which is the root…
Fifty-three year old Denise Marsh was killed this past weekend when a distracted driver plowed through a group of bicyclists on State Road 84. Two others were critically injured and were still in the hospital as of late Monday. A 33-year-old woman, Nicole Vanderweit, was driving a Honda Fit when she…
After enduring criticism from all sides, including the White House and U.S. Senate, Broward County’s supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, has resigned, the Sun Sentinel and others reported Sunday.
David Foster and Wayne Ford are likely victims of the great 2018 recount. Foster is a 62-year-old Coral Springs stage designer who usually votes near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, but he was visiting Thailand a month before Election Day. He filled out his ballot and sent it via registered mail October 8…
A late-season storm forming in the Atlantic has a 90 percent chance of evolving into something more serious, the National Hurricane Center reports. “The disturbance is forecast to move westward to west-northwestward for the next few days, passing near or north of the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and…
In 2000, South Florida election lunacy ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court and infected America’s faith in the justice system. This past Thursday, it became almost certain that will happen again in 2018. Forces from both major political parties, led by Republicans with small hands, ranted about buried ballots…
Miami New Times writers brought home four first-place awards at this past weekend’s Florida Press Club ceremony. Staff writer Brittany Shammas was the big winner, with two first places in business and education writing. Cited were her stories “CEO of $25 MIllion ‘Scam’ Invention Company Arrested for Domestic Violence” and…
As early voting concluded Sunday, the top 10 college campuses in Florida drew just over 50,000 early votes, with Miami Dade College — the state’s largest institution of higher learning — drawing 11,324 ballots,
Thousands of Democrats led by former President Barack Obama flooded Ice Palace Studios just north of downtown Miami Friday afternoon. They chanted “Bring it home,” decried the “world of hate” President Donald Trump has forged, and tried to whip up enthusiasm four days before the November 6 election.
With the election less than a week away, Florida for the next few days becomes the epicenter of campaigning by presidents past and present. Donald Trump hits the Hertz Arena in Fort Myers tonight at 7 p.m. A large crowd is expected and cops are warning people to…
Friday, federal officers arrested a man outside an AutoZone store in Plantation in connection with several pipe bombs that were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Pipe bombs have been delivered to critics of President Trump across the United States in the last few days. So far, 11 have turned up addressed to the homes or offices of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Robert De Niro, Hillary Clinton, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, U.S. Senator…
