Amara La Negra comes across as a relentlessly, unapologetically positive figure. She constantly Instagrams herself dancing. She posts photos of the Halloween costumes that fans made to honor her. She stands on stages with her fist clutched defiantly in the air. But the Miami-raised singer, actress, and reality TV star…
Police departments are supposed to submit hate-crime data to the FBI every year. In 2016, Miami-Dade County Police — the largest force in the Southeast, overseeing a population of 2.7 million people — reported that just a single hate crime occurred all year. That number seemed low, so New Times last year asked MDPD Director Juan Perez about it…
The Florida 2018 midterm election is finally, mercifully over. Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and longtime Sen. Bill Nelson have conceded their races to Republican challengers who openly stoked racist and anti-immigrant hatred in order to win. Broward’s embattled and bungling supervisor of elections, Brenda Snipes, has resigned…
Wells Fargo’s reputation has been pretty much destroyed since the company got caught making 3.5 million fake checking accounts and 500,000 fake credit card accounts in customers’ names without their permission. The company wound up paying $185 million in fines to the Consumer-Finance Protection Bureau, as well as another $145…
Rent in Miami is not quite as expensive as New York, San Francisco, and other major metro areas. But compared to those towns, Miami’s median income — around $46,000 — is absurdly tiny. As such, Miamians wind up spending some of the largest portions of…
Believe it or not, there’s a reason to be happy with the Miami Marlins today. As one might expect, the event doesn’t have anything to do with the team’s roster or on-field performance. But today the Fish formally unveiled a new set of logos and team colors. In what is now becoming a trend for Miami sports teams, the Marlins are switching to a uniform that’s pink, blue, and black.
A series of far-right social media pages and groups have been reported to law enforcement for doxxing Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher, the supervisors of elections in Broward and Palm Beach Counties, respectively. According to redacted screenshots obtained by New Times, at least one of the posts doxxing Snipes…
Most of what President Donald J. Trump says is drivel. He gets mad online to impress what appears to be an army of online Twitter robots. His tweets and public statements are almost never worth writing about. That is, except for today, because Trump’s latest confused, old-guy meltdown is objectively hilarious.
Garland Creedle is an American citizen. But he nevertheless spent a night in a Miami-Dade County jail waiting to be deported in 2017, thanks to a mistake by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, he and the American Civil Liberties Union sued ICE and Miami-Dade County…
Pepe the Frog is an online meme character popular with white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and online fascists. Most politicians would either run screaming from anyone wearing a Pepe T-shirt, or, better yet, tell that person to be ashamed. The Proud Boys, meanwhile, are a far-right,…
Miami-Dade County announced today it has finished counting votes for the 2018 election. But photos obtained by New Times show scores of mail-in ballots sitting inside an Opa-locka mail distribution center — the same center that was evacuated last month after alleged mail bomber Cesar Sayoc’s pipe bombs passed through the facility.
Claims by Gov. Rick Scott, Sen. Marco Rubio, and President Donald Trump that Democrats are “stealing” the 2018 elections in Broward County have sparked the expected reaction. Despite the fact there appears to be zero evidence backing up the claims, conspiracy theorists, right-wing grifters, and pro-Trump protesters are now descending on the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office.
Look, the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office sucks. It screwed up in 2000, got caught breaking the law by deleting ballots in 2016, and is in full-scale chaos right now. Oft-embattled Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes says she has no idea how many provisional and absentee ballots are left to be counted in her office.
Due to a combination of racism, Andrew Gillum’s alleged involvement in an FBI investigation, the obvious suppression of 1.4 million formerly incarcerated people’s votes, and a few other factors, Florida’s major statewide races this year were remarkably close. The U.S. Senate race between Bill Nelson and Rick Scott is almost certainly headed to a manual recount.
Just last month, North Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz was under fire for promoting insane, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories linking George Soros to the asylum-seeking migrant caravan traveling from Guatemala to the U.S. border. Gaetz’s ideas were pretty dang similar to those shared online by the neo-Nazi who shot 11 Jewish worshippers…
Miami’s King of Diamonds is, quite possibly, the most famous strip club in America. It’s a blue-neon-lit beacon on the side of I-95 where TV star Blac Chyna danced. KOD, as it’s informally known, has been referenced in countless rap songs. It regularly showed up in hip-hop videos. But as of this month, the club is basically no more…
Ken Detzner, Florida’s secretary of state, once conducted a voter-roll purge so obvious that the U.S. Department of Justice had to swoop in and stop him. Earlier this year, Detzner brazenly tried to prevent the state from opening more early-voting sites at colleges, which a judge said “reveal[ed] a stark pattern of discrimination.”…
Rick Scott is one of the worst people in America. It’s fitting, then, that he will follow his eight-year tenure as Florida governor with a new, six-year stint as U.S. senator. Scott, as governor, displayed nothing but bitterness and resentment toward the poor and needy in his state. Low-income people’s…
Miami and Florida Keys Congressman Carlos Curbelo, a self-styled “moderate” Republican in a heavily Democratic district, is no more. He has conceded his congressional race to upstart challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a health-care worker. As it stands, he’s losing by only 3,000-odd votes, but just enough to make a win seem implausible.
Donald Trump has, it seems, been president now for 33 years. Election Night 2016 (shudder) feels like a century ago. So much is different now: Our politics haVE become even more diseased than usual. Corruption and racism no longer disqualify you from holding office. An accused rapist sits on the…
Compared to various parts of Georgia and New York, voting lines and acts of voter suppression don’t seem to be particularly awful in Miami today. But that doesn’t mean people still aren’t trying to screw some candidates at the last minute. According to screen caps provided to New Times, someone spent yesterday blasting out a fake text message that’s clearly — and laughably — designed to scare voters toward voting for Ron DeSantis or away from the polls entirely.
Bowie, my 85-pound retired racing greyhound, sneaks undetected into our bed every night while my girlfriend and I sleep. He lies directly perpendicular to the two of us, then nestles in, stretching his gangly, two-and-a-half-foot-long legs out in both directions. I usually wake up dangling precariously off the side of the bed or shoved against our bedroom wall.
