The Taco Bell menu is pretty easy to comprehend in any language. Hell, half of it is just made-up words anyway — CrunchWrap Supremes and “nacho fries” aren’t exactly ancestral Mexican dishes. You can also order food by simply shouting a combo number, such as “T3” for a three-taco meal.
Two civilian employees of the Miami Police Department were quietly fired this week after they were caught taking police “property” from storage lockers and placing it inside their own cars, a Miami Police spokesperson confirmed to New Times yesterday. A third civilian employee tied to the scheme resigned amid the investigation.
Comedian and TV star Hannibal Buress walked out of a Wynwood bar during Art Basel 2017, stepped right up to Miami Police Officer Luis Verne, and shouted “this cop is stupid as fuck” right into Verne’s body camera. While certainly confrontational, the incident was both legal and hilarious. Verne disagreed and…
Americans have the right to express their political beliefs without threats from the government. But according to a New York Times report published late yesterday, FBI agents are scouring Miami to knock on the doors of Cuban-Americans who have agitated to end the anti-Castro embargo.
The U.S. government recently launched a campaign to crack down on money-laundering and corruption in Latin America’s state-run oil companies, including the one in Venezuela. Now the target has moved a bit south and west. A Miami man yesterday pleaded guilty to trying to funnel more than $1 million to an official at Petroecuador, Ecuador’s state-run oil company.
For all of Donald Trump’s ills, he has not done anything (yet) as evil as lying to the American public in order to start a continent-destabilizing war that killed 500,000 to 1 million Iraqis. George W. Bush is a monster who jump-started the NSA’s internet-spying apparatus, launched America into a perpetual state of war across the globe…
There are perfectly legitimate worries that Airbnb gentrifies neighborhoods and makes cities even less affordable than they already are. But so far, cities have had a hard time figuring out exactly how to handle the service, which lets homeowners rent their properties for days at a time. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is locked in a fierce fight with the company over his city’s plan to crack down on Airbnb.
Miami’s city charter is crystal clear: It’s flat-out illegal for elected officials to give direct orders to city staffers such as fire inspectors or code enforcement employees. If the mayor or a city commissioner breaks that edict, they can face a $500 fine, 60 days in jail, and immediate removal from office.
More than 70 percent of Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana in 2016, yet many local governments still have bizarrely hostile relationships with pot. Take the City of Miami. Despite the fact that Miami-area cops have the option to issue tickets for weed, a New Times investigation found that they’re instead…
It’s impossible to know whether Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is, in fact, a racist. But it’s sure easy to point out how often he does racist stuff or fraternizes with racist people. There’s that appearance next to Steve Bannon at an anti-Muslim conference and the time he used the…
Miami can’t build anything nice without someone getting charged with fraud along the way. Miami Beach pharmaceutical baron Phillip Frost pumped enough money into the new downtown science museum that the city wound up naming the place after him. He lives in a $59 million mansion on Star Island and sits in the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame.
Derek Graham admits he didn’t answer questions from City of Miami Police officers September 14, 2014. But that’s because he says he couldn’t. He was having a seizure.
In the 1990s, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo didn’t get along with then-Mayor Stephen P. Clark. Carollo, a square-headed paranoiac who sees communist symbols in burnt toast and cloud formations, is not exactly an easy guy to get along with. But during a particularly nasty battle in 1996 over the then-extant Miami Arena…
In Little Havana, it was an open secret that Luis Posada Carriles had blown up a Cuban airliner in 1974, killing 73 people. And many observers later suspected Carriles was also behind a series of 1997 attacks on Cuban hotels that killed an Italian tourist and injured 11 others. But…
Bill Fuller, who co-owns the historic, infamous Little Havana bar Ball & Chain (as well as many other properties in the neighborhood), claims Miami commissioner and former mayor “Crazy Joe” Carollo has launched a political vendetta against him. The reason: Fuller kinda-sorta supported Carollo’s 2017 election opponent Alfie Leon.
The U.S. Capitol is filled with even more dumb, morally bankrupt, fame-hungry lunatics than usual. Today a group of octogenarian lawmakers is holding essentially a sham hearing on transparency and censorship in online media while Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, along with others, testifies on Capitol Hill.
Have sex indoors. Do whatever the hell you want as long as it’s consensual and behind closed doors. Don’t have sex in public. Especially don’t have sex on the 1300 block of Ocean Drive in broad daylight on Labor Day. Especially if you are a Catholic priest visiting Miami Beach with another church-affiliated man.
When investigators from the Miami-Dade County Commission on Ethics & Public Trust asked Stephen Miró, a former aide to Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, whether the politician was using city resources to “selectively” attack Bill Fuller, the owner of Little Havana’s Ball & Chain, as vengeance for his support of Carollo’s opponent, Miró did not pull punches.
After enough racism scandals involving a particular political candidate, you’d think everyone might just admit that person is simply racist. Yet a whole lot of people — from bad-faith conservative pundits to easily fooled reporters — continue offering excuses for Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis’ infamous statement on Fox News that Andrew Gillum would “monkey… up” Florida.
Were you looking forward to a fun Labor Day weekend spent sunning yourself on the beach, drinking to excess, and blacking out in a warm haze as you temporarily forget the world’s problems? Think again. Tropical weather is coming.
Earlier this year, New Times detailed the horrific case of Maria, a 24-year-old who fled persecution in Guatemala, gave birth to multiple American children, and wound up jailed in an ICE detention facility in South Florida after she was arrested while trying to pay a $150 traffic fine. Speaking from inside the detention center, Maria told New Times in Spanish that she was allowed to see her three young children only an hour or two each week and that her 9-year-old daughter was afraid she’d also be detained if she visited her mom.
Americans have a First Amendment right to walk up to other Americans and ask for help, money, or supplies. That’s why cities almost always lose in court when they try to ban what’s pejoratively known as “panhandling” by the homeless. In Florida alone, courts have struck down anti-aid ordinances in Tampa and Miami for violating that basic American right to ask other people in public for a few bucks.
