Florida’s law banning ex-felons from voting was written during the Jim Crow era to prevent black people from going to the polls. In February, federal Judge Mark Walker finally threw that racist law out after a group of ex-felons sued, but the judge left the door open for Scott’s office…
The W Hotel South Beach effectively symbolizes “international luxury.” The property sits smack in the middle of town, has some fancy Hello-Kitty-themed modern-art sculptures outside, and seems to have Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and other luxury automobiles humming nearby at all hours. But a lawsuit filed in Miami…
The Fort Lauderdale Police Department arrested Shamarly Emanuel Henry Sunday morning after they say the North Dakota resident knocked over a police officer with his Ford truck and then sped away. That altercation was not filmed. But cameras were rolling when FLPD cops arrested Henry, and a clip uploaded to…
When Fidel Castro died in 2016, thousands of Cuban immigrants and their descendants paraded through Miami’s streets waving the Cuban flag. When Donald Trump himself came to speak to a group of Bay of Pigs veterans who’d rebelled against Castro, the Brigade 2506 vets draped a Cuban flag behind the…
A new women’s rights organization is demanding that the head of Miami’s Everglades Foundation step down over his longstanding ties with accused serial rapist Harvey Weinstein. But billionaire hedge-fund investor Paul Tudor Jones is pushing back and alleging that the group is actually a front for Big Sugar. Tudor Jones…
The March for Our Lives today might go down as the largest single-day gun-control and gun-safety march in American history. Thanks to the efforts of a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, 834 marches and rallies are happening today, and Americans from across the nation have traveled to Washington, D.C….
Miami residents should hope Arctic sea ice remains as thick, frozen, and unmoving as globally possible. This subtropical city’s relationship with the far north is pretty clear: The more the ice caps melt, the more Miami floods.
Marshall DeRosa is a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. As part of a program funded by the Charles Koch Institute and the Boca-based private-prison giant the GEO Group, DeRosa gets paid to spout his ideas to inmates at GEO’s South Bay Correctional Facility.
After sub-hurricane-force winds blew out vast swaths of South Florida’s electrical grid for days when Hurricane Irma hit last September, residents began asking what seemed like an obvious question: Why hasn’t Florida Power & Light, the state-regulated electricity monopoly, buried more power lines underground to protect them from tropical storms?
In January, the Florida Immigrant Coalition shared two videos of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents storming onto Greyhound buses in the Sunshine State, where they asked passengers for their citizenship “papers” and hauled some away. In one case, agents removed a Jamaican grandmother, and in another they apprehended…
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has bombed the entire nation to pieces, starved its citizens via a blockade, caused a deadly cholera outbreak, and allegedly attacked innocent people by using illegal chemical weapons such as white phosphorus. The United Nations has repeatedly said the attacks amount to crimes against humanity.
Yesterday Donna Shalala’s campaign told Politico that the congressional candidate’s “name is synonymous with the Democratic Party.” But her record of political donations sure isn’t. Politico’s Marc Caputo revealed that Shalala, the Clinton ally and former University of Miami president now running as a self-proclaimed “progressive”…
James Taylor works for the Heartland Institute, a hard-right think tank funded by oil companies, carbon polluters, and other rich robber barons who pay them to promote fake science that supposedly debunks climate change. Heartland’s pay-for-play shtick is well documented and so simple a child could understand what it’s up to.
Crafting propaganda programs for political campaigns sure is lucrative. Cambridge Analytica, the British-American “internet messaging” outlet caught on hidden-camera footage this week bragging about blackmailing candidates, bribing people, and coordinating with the Trump campaign, seems to have tendrils snaking all over the world, from the U.K. Brexit campaign all the way to Kenya’s last major election in 2017.
The City of Miami Beach admitted last year that asking local developers to build affordable housing for poor and working-class people had totally failed over the past decade. But the effects of that failure on local residents haven’t been completely clear — until now, and the results seem bleak.
Barely a day after Florida International University’s pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle told multiple news stations she had already all but ruled out charging anyone with crimes over the deaths. She made that flabbergasting statement without even interviewing a single witness, while rescuers were still working to pull bodies from the rubble.
Bridges don’t usually crumble into dust. So when a pedestrian walkway at Florida International University collapsed Thursday, killing six people and crushing eight cars, people were rightly horrified and confused. Workers had installed the bridge overnight only five days before the disaster. FIU even blasted out videos and news releases…
It’s now clear that the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed and killed six people after engineers put it through some kind of “stress testing” earlier in the day. According to Sen. Marco Rubio, the bridge’s internal support cables were being “tightened” just as the bridge crumbled onto traffic below, crushing eight cars under 950 tons of concrete and steel.
Four people have died in the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University’s Modesto Maidique Campus, Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Chief Dave Downey said in a late-evening news conference.
A new, $14.2 million pedestrian bridge on the Florida International University Modesto Maidique Campus in West Miami-Dade has collapsed. People are reportedly trapped under the rubble. Police have confirmed multiple deaths but didn’t say exactly who or how many. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is en route to the site.
A federal judge Tuesday cleared the way for a developer to bulldoze 88 acres of critically endangered Miami pine rocklands. One of the last shreds of an ecosystem that does not exist anywhere else on Earth will soon become an apartment complex with a Chili’s, LA Fitness, and Walmart attached.
Last December, a platoon of bulldozers descended upon one of the last stretches of endangered pine rocklands in America and flattened the area to build apartments, a Chili’s, an LA Fitness, and a Walmart on the critically threatened area. The tractors would have done even more damage had a group of South Florida environmentalists not filed an emergency lawsuit and obtained a restraining order to halt construction.
