Jerry Falwell Jr., the evangelist son of world-famous Southern Baptist minister Jerry Falwell Sr., runs a hardcore-Christian university and often acts as the public face for the American evangelical movement. That’s why it seemed so hypocritical when he endorsed Donald Trump — a sexually rapacious avatar of American greed, racism…
Carlos Gimenez has not been a good Miami-Dade County mayor. He will forever be remembered as the leader who agreed to cooperate with Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation police. He also brazenly vetoed the creation of an independent police-oversight board. And he definitely has some ethical issues.Yet…
Republican state Sen. Aaron Bean has a ridiculous idea.
Jordan E. Goodman markets himself as “America’s Money Answers Man.” He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, CNBC, CBS, and even ABC’s the View. He spent 18 years as a Wall Street columnist for Money magazine. For three years, he was also allegedly telling people to invest in a Ponzi scheme…
Former Miami Marlins president David Samson appeared on Miami ESPN host Dan Le Batard’s radio program this morning. The two men were doing damage control after New Times yesterday published a video of Samson appearing onstage at Le Batard’s 50th birthday party over the weekend. It showed Samson bragging about conning Miami taxpayers…
The Church of Scientology was founded by a science-fiction writer. The group allegedly collects intel on its members and critics to use as blackmail, forces workers into indentured servitude, and maybe-probably has kidnapped people. In addition to attracting Hollywood celebrities, the Clearwater-based church also has a habit of buying tons of expensive real estate, including a new Miami headquarters, which opened in 2017 and received praise from former Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado.
At this point, every single person who worked for the Miami Marlins when Jeffrey Loria owned the team should be under strict FBI surveillance. Robert Mueller should be stalking these people. They keep revealing themselves to be vampires.
When immigrant detainees enter the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center outside Los Angeles, they are trapped, virtually unable to consult with a lawyer, rights groups say. All calls, including those with counsel, are recorded. Detainees cannot leave voicemails and calls are cut off if humans…
DeSantis’ advisory board includes two members of the Florida Citizens’ Alliance, which hates Islam.
This was supposed to be the Florida Democrats’ year. The blue wave was cresting. Andrew Gillum was a strong candidate for governor. Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott were grotesque, cretinous candidates and seemingly awful human beings. Everything looked so easy.
With every day that passes, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s 2017 order to hold federal immigration detainees in his county’s jails seems like an even worse move. The Trump administration has offered Miami-Dade virtually nothing in financial incentives after the mayor loudly declared his county was not a “sanctuary” community. Instead,…
Yesterday, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio appeared in the pages of the Atlantic magazine announcing that he, quite suddenly, loves “workers.” The senator, who has been accused of being a metaphysical vehicle through which rich business tycoons launder bad ideas, is now apparently a big fan of labor unions. He thinks the…
The Florida Supreme Court affirmed that cops can kill civilians under the Stand Your Ground law.
The Florida Democratic Party is, without question, in the running for “most inept” Democratic state-level institution in America. There are currently more registered Democrats than Republicans here, but the GOP has managed to control the governor’s mansion since 2001 and will remain there until at least 2022. There are signs that,…
The Miami Heat’s “Vice” jerseys are the best in the National Basketball League. ESPN today declared them the “coolest” uniforms in basketball. More important, South Floridians love the alternate color scheme: Neon Vice merchandise is all over the region. The jerseys are the highest-selling alternate uniforms in NBA history, and the team is now even peddling the neon Vice logo on car license plates.
Florida State Rep. Thad Altman was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1955. He moved to Florida in 1957 and has been basically a carpetbagger delivering Deep South hatred ever since. He’s earned one of those old-white-dude names that is essentially just “Monocle Q. Racism.” In a depressingly on-trend move for…
Maybe 20 percent of the pieces at any Miami Art Week fair are fantastic. About 75 percent are either trite or meaningless. But the final 5 percent is where the fairs truly shine: Every one has something in the realm of five to ten pieces that truly, genuinely suck in spectacular fashion.
Miami Police officers said they had to shut down an Air Jordan shoe-release event at the Miami nightclub E11even this past Saturday after cops said patrons got too “rowdy” while waiting for sneakers. Video shows crowds surging against metal barriers in an unsafe manner.
Javier Ortiz has led the City of Miami Fraternal Order of Police since 2011. In that time, he has racked up excessive-force complaints, been sued a few times, and said demonstrably racist things on social media. He has also mysteriously escaped punishment after multiple Internal Affairs investigations and nearly lost his job after he got caught harassing a police critic online. He appeared to be made from Teflon.
Before the federal government sued California in an attempt to open the state to private-prison contractors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought the advice of GEO Group, the Boca Raton-based, multibillion-dollar private-detention-facility corporation. Mother Jones broke news of the close ties between GEO and ICE’s legal team this past Friday. New Times has…
When Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez made a snap decision in 2017 to capitulate to Donald Trump’s threats and force the county to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lawyers warned that innocent people were going to wind up getting hurt. The head of the Florida American Civil Liberties Union…
Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton was living in South Florida in 2009 when he was picked up on gun and attempted cocaine-possession charges, but after reviewing the evidence in the case, New Times writer Chris Sweeney found that Banton had likely been set up by a corrupt informant. That reporting led to a Tampa judge’s decision to throw out Banton’s gun-possession convictions.
