Instead of shouldering the cost of fixing its leaking cooling canals at Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station in Homestead, FPL is asking state regulators for permission to pass that bill — a reported $200 million — onto consumers.
Perhaps don’t name your football team after a drunk ethnic stereotype hell-bent on violence. Notre Dame’s staggeringly drunk leprechaun mascot doesn’t seem to encourage great behavior. After the University of Miami Hurricanes laid a 41-8 beatdown on the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Saturday, two drunk-looking Irish fans decided to…
Florida’s law enforcement community is staffed by far too many adult children. Just ask State Trooper Donna Jane Watts. In October 2011, Watts stopped a City of Miami cop traveling 120 mph on the highway and arrested him; in retaliation, 88 police officers used the confidential police driver database to stalk her.
College bros are terrible. Florida college bros are particularly terrible. And particularly terrible Florida bros have committed a really heinous list of offenses in the last 30 days — from getting caught joking about rape to sharing memes making fun of the victims of the Charlottesville Nazi attack to saying…
Rape and sexual violence are a near certainty for poor, migrant women working in Florida fields. Workplace rape is frighteningly common — a New Times investigation in 2015 chronicled a horrifying case of mass rape at one Florida farm. Other studies have suggested 80 percent of female farmworkers experience sexual harassment or violence during their careers handling food and produce.
For a world-class city, the median income in Miami-Dade County is astoundingly low — a paltry $44,000, according to county estimates. Donald Trump rode into office by promising to help poor Americans get rich, but according to a city-by-city analysis of the new tax plan he and Senate Republicans are proposing,…
From 2002 until 2009, celebrity hotelier and jet-setter André Balazs owned Miami Beach’s historic Raleigh Hotel on Collins Avenue. And until this past March, he ran the world-renowned Standard Hotels brand, which included South Beach’s Standard Hotel, one of the best-known vacation properties in South Florida. Balazs is a regular on the Miami party circuit, popping up at celebrity get-togethers all over town and hosting events during Art Basel Miami Beach.
It turns out protesting in the streets for civil rights might actually accomplish a thing or two. Two days ago, progressive Democrats in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and other states cruised to victory in off-year elections after a full 12 months of anti-Trump, pro-equality demonstrations.
Here’s an extremely easy way to ensure that poor, overwhelmingly Democratic voters don’t make it to the polls on Election Day: withhold their food.
(Scroll down for full election results in the City of Miami, Miami Beach, Hialeah, and Homestead.) Miami Beach residents want Ocean Drive to remain Ocean Drive, cocaine-addled, neon-painted warts and all. City residents this month were tasked with voting on one of the most drastic changes to Miami Beach life…
There was a brief and, for Philadelphia residents, all-too-rare moment when major talents actually wanted to come play for the Phillies. Typically, nobody wants to play for the Phillies, who have lost more games than any major-league sports franchise. Most years, the team plays to crowds so empty you can…
Greek life remains massive at huge schools like Florida State University. But lately, Greek life seems to generate nothing but nightmares for the institutions. The latest terrible frat-related headlines came three days ago in Tallahassee, where Andrew Coffey, a 20-year old Pi Kappa Phi fraternity pledge from Pompano Beach, died at…
Miami’s unsustainable real-estate boom would inevitably reach a point when it would eat itself. Absent planning and regulation, condo developers were all but certain to begin repaving integral things like the library or city hall when the rest of downtown’s buildable land dried up.
Mainstream news organizations share propaganda all the time: The U.S. military lies to reporters, local police unions lie constantly, and much of it passes into the public consciousness unabated. But social media has shifted the national propaganda war into a new gear. It’s now clear that the Russian government was running a massive social media propaganda campaign to help Donald Trump get elected.
Poor, poor white people. After centuries of subjugating people of color, exterminating indigenous Americans, and brutalizing millions of black slaves, whites are having a really hard time being part of the national ruling class. Others sometimes make fun of your bad dancing! Jokes about Spanish-language television go over your head! Sometimes your coffee takes a little too long!
Color us stunned that the cofounder of a major Trump campaign support group, who is now running for office herself, has a questionable background and a history of arrests.
They don’t want you to invest in Bitcoin-style cryptocurrencies. Seriously: The Securities and Exchange Commission this past Wednesday warned people to be wary about investing in the extremely sketchy, online-only currencies advertised lately by celebrities — including Floyd Mayweather, Paris Hilton, Jamie Foxx, rapper the Game, and none other than Miami’s own DJ Khaled.
What the hell is going on with racist South Florida firefighters lately? Months after a Pompano Beach firefighter was canned in August for hanging a noose over a black firefighter’s seat in a city truck, Miami now has its own disgusting racism scandal. Six firefighters were terminated this week for…
It’s hard to remember the last time U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had a good PR week. The local lawmaker is getting dumped on again today: Donna Brazile, who worked under Wasserman Schultz and briefly ran the Democratic National Committee after the congresswoman stepped down during her email scandal, published an excerpt of her new book today…
In an eight-candidate Democratic cluster brawling to nab retiring GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s seat in Congress, Matt Haggman is running away with the fundraising game. Haggman, a former Miami Herald reporter and Knight Foundation director, has already pulled in more than $500,000.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine at long last announced his run for Florida’s governor today at a Wynwood news conference. With a campaign based on raising the state minimum wage, expanding access to green energy, and fighting sea-level rise — plus a sizable personal fortune to spend — he has a real shot at snagging the Democratic nomination against three less-than-imposing competitors.
Miami Beach residents tend to do “self-care” a little differently from most others. Where the average person might relieve some stress by sipping Chardonnay and paging through a dog-eared Nora Roberts romance novel, Beach residents head straight for the hard stuff: They vacuum club drugs into their nostrils and, according to new data from a fairly large sex toy website, finish off their weekend nights with never-ending rounds of (consensually) painful male bondage.
