BodyRx, an anti-aging clinic that offers testosterone and other hormone treatments, fills an unassuming office on the ground floor of a Coral Gables apartment complex. The lobby is pristine, with gray floors, ornate shelving, and delicate upholstery that wouldn’t seem out of place in a wedding planner’s office. As patients wait to be seen, a TV on the wall plays one testimonial on repeat.
There’s been no official announcement, but it sure looks like Donald Trump will travel to Miami this Monday. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records and “sources” speaking to the Miami Herald suggest the president will make a pit stop in the Magic City next week, but so far the White House has been mum on actual details.
David Horowitz, who runs the hard-core-Islamophobic FrontpageMagazine, organizes what he calls a “Restoration Weekend” every year. Past attendees have included Pamela Geller, Jeff Sessions, Nigel Farage, Laura Ingraham, and a slew of lesser-known Islamophobes and random alt-right cretins.
As the world watched U.S. senators this afternoon grill Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg about how his company handles all the personal data it vacuums up, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) exposed that he’s either a massive hypocrite when it comes to data security or simply doesn’t understand how computers work.
When Miami U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo enthusiastically backed the GOP’s tax bill, he conveniently failed to mention the deal would directly benefit his wife’s investment holdings. The Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act loosened fees on companies such as Captiol Gains LLC, which is registered to Curbelo’s home address in suburban Kendall…
In the past week, South Floridian Ericson Harrell has shared memes claiming that fluoride is dangerous to human beings, that 9/11 might have been orchestrated by the U.S. government, that trusting the government is “a form of mental illness,” and that the Parkland shooting survivors are “paid actors” who helped the feds stage a false-flag attack in February.
Until President Trump repeals our right to do so, New Times will steadfastly remind Floridians that Rick Scott is a bewitched, evil hermit crab who lost his shell and accidentally became Florida’s governor. That’s the only reasonable explanation for Scott’s actions since he took office in 2011. He appears to have…
In December, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Louisiana shackled 92 Somali immigrants into airplane seats, fired the jet off toward their home country in eastern Africa, allegedly beat the men bloody and forced them to relieve themselves in their seats, mysteriously turned the plane around in Senegal, and…
The Trump Organization is, technically, run by Donald Trump’s large adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. But despite his public statements to the contrary, Trump himself still has an ownership stake in his huge empire of real-estate properties, restaurants that serve nightmarish cocktails, and random buildings with his name slapped onto the sides…
Surveillance video obtained by blogger Al Crespo shows two City of Miami Police officers repeatedly punching, choking, and tackling an apparently unarmed man after the suspect attempted to run away at a gas station. The clip begins by showing the man in question walking calmly away from a convenience store…
Early this year, Florida Power & Light and Miami-Dade County unveiled a joint plan they claimed would finally fix the gigantic plume of saltwater pollution that has leaked from FPL’s Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station into the Biscayne Aquifer, South Florida’s largest source of drinking water. The plume came from…
While they’re locked up, inmates rely on books and letters to learn new skills and keep in contact with their loved ones and the outside world. But administrators in charge of the Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, have suddenly banned prisoners from receiving books, greeting cards, and letters written in crayon or marker, according to internal memos first obtained by the Families Against Mandatory Minimums. The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida tells New Times it’s researching how to fight the move.
Last month, an activist group outed a longtime Florida Atlantic University professor as a recipient of funding from the billionaire, conservative Koch brothers and, more troubling, as a former member of the League of the South Institute, the “educational” arm of an outright white nationalist group. As New Times noted weeks ago, Marshall DeRosa has written articles soft-peddling the morality of Confederate slavery as recently as August 2017.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt for years has been a known shill for energy-industry polluters. But he might have finally committed an act so brazenly corrupt he loses his job: It turns out Pruitt was spending only $50 per day to live in a prime-location D.C. townhouse owned by the family of an ultrapowerful oil-and-utility-industry lobbyist.
Are Miami PD officers regularly riding around posing as fake Uber drivers, or was this a one-time sting? The department hasn’t responded to multiple calls from New Times about the undercover Uber. A spokesperson for Uber declined to comment but confirmed the company had no knowledge of this incident.
Roger Stone, South Florida’s infamous political hit man, is not capable of keeping his mouth shut. He has spent decades on the attack, getting called in when, say, politicians want someone to stage a fake riot or smear the parents of a dead American soldier.
Here’s a sentence that perfectly describes the media hellscape in which Americans now live: Mere weeks after he hid in a closet to avoid being murdered in a school shooting, 18-year-old Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg is now the subject of the smear website HoggWatch.com, which has published multiple articles comparing him to a member of the Hitler Youth.
Maggie Fernández showed up at last week’s Miami Sea Level Rise Committee meeting with a simple pitch. Her group, the grassroots Miami Climate Alliance, wants the city to account for all the money it spends battling rising seas and then sue oil companies and carbon polluters to pay the bill instead of raising residents’ taxes.
The pro-Second Amendment right wing officially broke its brain last month. Instead of civilly disagreeing with the Parkland survivors who organized the March for Our Lives, Breitbart has accused David Hogg of giving a Nazi salute (didn’t happen), commentators and sitting lawmakers have utterly misrepresented Cuban politics and accused Emma…
By nearly every metric, Miami-Dade County is one of the most difficult places to live if you don’t make a ton of money. The county’s median income is a staggeringly low $44,000, compared to the $80,000 median income in a comparably expensive city such as Seattle. That means Miamians wind up spending a higher percentage of their incomes on rent than residents of any other city in America.
Earlier today, Environmental Protection Agency Chief Scott Pruitt, a man singularly obsessed with plunging Miami into the sea, got caught living in a home owned by the wife of a prominent energy industry lobbyist. ABC News found that for much of 2017, Pruitt resided in a townhouse owned by Vicki Hart, wife of J. Steven Hart, the CEO of D.C. lobbying firm Williams & Jensen, which caters to oil and energy companies.
This month, the City of Miami rolled out a plan to “clean up” blighted areas — by bulldozing homes the city says are “drug dens” and “harboring illegal activity that is concerning to neighbors.” New City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez trumpeted the urban-renewal plan Safe City at a March 15 news conference while a backhoe plowed through a derelict, 92-year-old Little Havana home behind him.
