The Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald’s reporting team in Tallahassee is known for fantastic journalistic scoops but not so much for making moral judgments about certain candidates. As truly, utterly, and monstrously terrible as Gov. Rick Scott is, you’ll never see the Times or Herald refer to him as a canvas sack full…
Less than a month ago, students at Santa Fe High School outside Houston walked out in solidarity with the survivors of the school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Many of the Texas teens held signs demanding gun-control reform and an end to school shootings. Well, another one happened…
Michel Martelly’s career has been weird as hell. He went from performing as a misogynistic, rum-drinking singer wearing adult diapers onstage as the pop star “Sweet Micky” to somehow morphing into a repressive and allegedly corrupt Haitian president. In hindsight, his rise has been “proto-Trumpian.” And now he’s out of office and back performing as Sweet Micky.
When NFL wide receiver Robby Anderson was arrested for allegedly shoving a Miami cop at Rolling Loud in May 2017, the sports world freaked out and labeled Anderson as a player with “character problems.” But New Times warned the public not to rush to judgment too quickly, because the arresting officer…
The average Floridian would be forgiven for assuming that moneyed interests such as Big Sugar and power companies have a stranglehold on the state government. Just last year, lobbyists for Florida Power & Light (FPL) were caught literally writing the text of proposed laws.
Is there a sadder sentence in the English language than “The Cheesecake Factory calls out a man for possibly lying during an appearance on the president’s favorite cable-news TV show?” (No.) Can the news cycle in any way get dumber than “Conservatives are mad that a mediocre restaurant chain isn’t sufficiently patriotic?” (The answer to that is probably yes, somehow.)
Rentable electric scooters have seemingly popped up in major cities and tourist destinations overnight. According to various news reports, the scooters are “ruining” Venice Beach, causing “controversy” in Nashville, and “terrorizing” San Francisco. Some of the rental companies, such as Lime, Spin, and Bird (those are real tech-company names), have received major funding from venture-capital firms, which helps explain how the little transportation devices seem to have proliferated across planet Earth in a matter of days.
A brave, free-speech MAGA warrior is under attack, America. Eugenior Joseph, a Miami native and former Westwood Christian School basketball star, says he walked into the Cheesecake Factory at Dadeland Mall with his girlfriend’s family on Mother’s Day wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat, sat down, and was — we can barely muster the strength to utter these words — ridiculed by the staff for supporting President Trump.
A prison guard at Everglades Correctional Institution is facing battery and official misconduct charges after prosecutors say he pepper-sprayed a handcuffed inmate on camera for no reason. Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle says that the video evidence is clear and that the guard, Colonel Patrick Riggins, also pressured co-workers to file a false report justifying the incident.
Rudy Giuliani, a person who seems to spend 97 percent of his day in front of a Fox News camera screaming about how his enemies commit crimes all the time, apparently employs a very special crime-committer of his own. Florida prosecutors now allege a woman in Giuliani’s employ committed insurance fraud in Broward County in 2017.
The buzzed-on-the-sides, long-on-top haircut is now so ubiquitous among millennials that it has passed the point of even seeming edgy or new at this point. Among hipster-fashion types, the shaggy ’70s look is in vogue, and most rock bands and male models are growing their hair out into mop-tops once more. Buzzing the sides of your head is simply a sign of basic grooming and fashion sense in 2018: It looks clean, tidy, and uncontroversial.
Joe Carollo. Even uttering his name can raise the blood pressure among those who have followed Miami politics since the early ’90s. Miamians tend to shrug off political lunacy, so it takes a special kind of elected official to earn the moniker “Loco Joe.” Remember when a shark rode Metromover in 2009 and most locals simply shrugged and moved on?
Miami-Dade does not currently have any idea what to do about to its homeless sex offender camp, an ongoing catastrophe that New Times first exposed more than a decade ago with a story about a camp underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Harsh residency restrictions, which prevented sex offenders from living within thousands…
In a 2016 clip uploaded to YouTube, North Miami’s Democratic state Senator, Daphne Campbell, told an interviewer that her mother and father were dead. She added that her husband’s parents were also dead. In fact, she said basically everyone close to her either was deceased or lived far away.
Miami Beach is loud 365 days of the year, and 366 days when it’s a leap year. Pitbull sits atop an entire subgenre of pop-rap dedicated to singing about how, at its core, club-filled, liquor-fueled, sleep-deprived Miami Beach is an extremely loud place to be.
If you ask a random visitor to name five things Miami is famous for, “nice restaurants” is bound to make the list. There’s a reason rich people hang out here, after all. No one is laying out $3 million for a beachfront condo if they have to eat dinner at Denny’s on a Friday night.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, a prosecutor with a knack for upsetting criminal justice–reform advocates and civil rights lawyers, has lately taken a different tack on cops caught abusing suspects. Rundle has still never charged a cop for a fatal on-duty shooting in her 24 years in office…
Hours after Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa was charged with misdemeanor assault today, the city’s police union released a doozy of a statement defending Figueroa and insisting he hadn’t broken the law or department policy.
Last Thursday, a clip went viral of Miami Police Officer Mario Figueroa taking a running start and kicking the head of a defenseless, handcuffed black man.
In 2007, New Times broke national news with a story about how a group of sex-offenders was forced to live in tents underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of restrictive laws barring them from living within thousands of feet of schools or playgrounds. Their case became a focal point in efforts to reform…
Six hours ago, Miami Police held a press conference where Mayor Francis Suarez lauded the cops for their “diligent” work apprehending two suspects in last month’s high-profile shooting in Liberty City that killed two teenagers and sparked a student-led walkout. Just hours later, MPD sheepishly released those same suspects and…
Because Florida is run by former hospital executive Rick Scott, you might assume the state would have a solid health-care system. But Scott is a profiteer whose company stole an unprecedented amount of money from Medicare and Medicaid in the ’90s and who as governor then refused to expand Medicaid…
