Today the FBI raided the Fort Lauderdale home of Roger Stone, the openly racist Trump confidante who dresses like a penny-farthing bicycle salesman. Stone is charged with lying repeatedly to the FBI and threatening federal witnesses in the most obvious and stupid ways possible.
As it stands, not every child who grows up in Florida gets access to the state’s full slate of college financial-aid packages. If you’re born in the United States, you qualify for everything, from the state’s Bright Futures scholarship programs to a whole host of other grants. But if you’re…
The Trump administration’s family-separation and child-immigrant-detention policies have forced innocent children into horrid, inhumane conditions and, in some cases, have violated international law. But housing immigrant children has been extremely lucrative for the private contractors running detention facilities…
The worst tragedy during Donald Trump’s time as president likely already occurred: A spate of recent studies have shown that nearly 3,000 Americans died after the near-category-five Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. The numbers suggest the Trump administration also likely suppressed or failed to adequately report the…
South Florida couple Mark Allen Bartlett and Dana Scalione celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 this way: She screamed at a group of black teens. He then pulled a gun and repeatedly used the N-word. The kids, including an 11-year-old boy, briefly blocked Brickell Avenue while carrying signs demanding the City of Miami protect the affordable-housing complex Liberty Square…
In May 2018, the state of South Carolina passed a bill lawmakers said was aimed at fighting anti-Semitism in the state’s public school system. But many critics were instead alarmed: Rather than simply cracking down on speech critical of Jewish people, the bill instead banned criticism of the state…
If you want an example of the painfully transactional and conflicted nature of U.S. congressional committee assignments, consider the case of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The new, Democrat-controlled House of Representatives was sworn in at the beginning of the month and leaders began handing out committee appointments. Wasserman Schultz, who represents…
Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub’s career seems to be dangling on thin ice right now, and for good reason. Earlier this month, she claimed online that Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to U.S. Congress, was a “Hamas-loving anti-Semite” who might one…
The case is one of the biggest black eyes in the history of the Miami-Dade Police Department and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s administration. In 2015, local cops, elected officials, and Rundle stood at a podium and declared then-15-year-old Deandre Charles had murdered Joseph Raksin, a prominent New York City rabbi. Rundle then revealed an utterly ridiculous witness-drawn sketch.
A certain subset of (let’s be honest: rich and bored) oceanside residents is currently fighting over whether the city should install a big, bright, and sorta dumb-looking LED “welcome” sign at the foot of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The sign is indeed stupid-looking and wholly unnecessary. But the squabble perfectly…
This past November, Florida Republicans, conservative TV pundits, and President Donald Trump fabricated claims of “election-rigging” by two Florida elections supervisors in two of the state’s most heavily Democratic counties. Now those same Republicans have attempted to fire both of those elections chiefs. The Florida Democratic Party has already blasted Gov. Rick DeSantis’ latest move as a “politically motivated power grab” and an attempt to “consolidate” control of elections across the state.
The Miami Police Department resembles a middle-school playground. Here’s proof. Two brothers who recently won the cop union’s elections, Tommy and Matt Reyes, seem to be suggesting someone tied to the election’s losers is now fabricating evidence to smear them. Yesterday, New Times broke news that MPD Chief Jorge Colina has ordered…
Roberto Destephan, the City of Miami Police officer and former Fraternal Order of Police union vice president, filmed himself last year tossing Hebrew texts into a garbage heap outside an FOP office while calling the books “trash.” That video then leaked to WPLG Local 10 News last…
Earlier this week, Hallandale Beach Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub decided, for some godforsaken reason, to post on Facebook that she was worried that Rashida Tlaib, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, was a “Hamas-loving anti-Semite” who would “blow up Capitol Hill.” In other words: With zero evidence, she accused a Palestinian-American of being a terrorist. That’s racist, full stop.
While living in Cartagena, Colombia, Jose Irizarry allegedly held lavish yacht parties with bikini-clad prostitutes. He took first-class flights to Europe and brought along some Louis Vuitton luggage and a gold Hublot watch. He funded his lifestyle by stealing cash from Colombian drug dealers and engaging in schemes to launder money…
In April 2017, New Times reported on a study showing that people who hate kneeling NFL players are also very likely racist. That news has not stopped Miami Herald sportswriter Armando Salguero from flying into something of a blackout rage whenever anyone mentions football players protesting racism in America…
Mary “Mayhem” Mayhew, Florida’s new Medicaid chief, was accused of all kinds of misdeeds while running Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). She was repeatedly sued and fined for failing to follow various rules while working under then-Gov. Paul LePage. Yesterday, New Times recounted how the federal government in…
When Donald Trump chose Mary Mayhew to run the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs in 2018, Maine residents were alarmed: From 2011 to 2017, Mayhew had run that state’s medical programs. She was so psychotically focused on cutting medical programs for the poor that she became known as “Mary Mayhem.” Oddly, she stepped down three months later.
Despite the fact that City of Miami taxpayers in 2016 shelled out $400,000 to equip half of the 1,300-member police force with body cameras, the Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) continues having to call out the city’s cops for misusing the devices. The Miami Police Department needed the cameras after the federal government whacked the department…
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was basically fired on Friday. Israel’s cops demonstrably failed during the Parkland shooting: A scathing, 500-page report released earlier this month detailed how multiple BSO deputies failed to confront Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz. Deputies lacked proper training to handle mass shooters and it appears…
Donald Trump’s tantrum over his absurd border wall has now made life even more frustrating for Miamians
In late December, the feds told the Associated Press that the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, a migrant camp holding 1,300 immigrant children outside of Miami, would add 1,000 extra beds some time in 2019. While immigrant-rights groups maintain the facility is a humanitarian nightmare — one…
