When Chis Emerson rode his horse Trigger into Miami-Dade County from South Carolina last Wednesday morning, locals were dismayed. The horse was in awful condition. His mouth was pockmarked with sores, one eye was blind, and his back was so raw and abused that he’d bite anyone who tried to touch it…
Chris Emerson and his horse Trigger left Greenwood, South Carolina, last week and headed south. The pair passed through Georgia, into Florida, and nearly made it all the way to Key West before a TV news crew spotted them in West Palm Beach and asked what they were up to…
Florida is a hotbed for football talent, young and old. Many of Miami’s high schools are basically factories for college football programs and, by proxy, the National Football League. When players retire, many of them choose to buy mansions on the South Florida coast. And because the state is crammed with retired NFL players, it’s a mecca for both football-related wealth and injuries.
Just after 9 a.m. today, Flavia Marlene Almonte, a Latina Muslim woman who lives in Miami, pulled her car over near a police officer in Fort Lauderdale and broke down in tears. “I just need a place to vent,” she said, speaking into a Facebook Live feed…
Many unarmed motorists shot by police officers don’t live to tell their side of the story. Michael Gavins is the exception. And the story Gavins tells is disturbing. He was unarmed and says he was not resisting when South Miami Police Officer Aryo Rezaie shot him in the back…
Attention, yard-owning Miamians: For a few hundred bucks, you can spend every weekend until you die drinking beer from the porch of a reclaimed Miami Beach lifeguard stand. If you don’t think that sounds cool, you should probably leave South Florida immediately.
Since Donald Trump won the country’s presidential election last week, the prevailing wisdom from Trump’s supporters online has been “shut up, you lost, deal with the status quo.” This is bad advice. It’s never a good idea to sit back and accept anything in politics you don’t like. And so,…
Much to the dismay of local politicians and business leaders, the Zika virus has not left Miami Beach. Last Friday, the city’s true Zika nightmare became a reality: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said pregnant women should still avoid Miami Beach during Art Basel, one of the city’s biggest economic drivers every year.
City of Miami Police promise this time will be different. Standing in front of the Miami City Commission yesterday, Police Chief Rodolfo Llanes — who was caught this week fudging the truth about when he learned about destroyed murder case evidence — promised that if Miami PD was allowed to purchase 148 new Bushmaster AR-15-style rifles…
Around 4:30 p.m. yesterday, Miami real-estate developer David Sanguesa claims, a Miami Starbucks employee said she would not serve him coffee. The reason: He voted for Donald Trump.
When white people first “discovered” the Everglades centuries ago, they figured it wasn’t good for anything. To them, it was just a swamp full of bugs. But the weather was nice, so they just stomped all over everything, ruined the land, and dropped some roads and strip malls on the area.
Around 4:30 p.m. today, Jorge de Cárdenas was getting some work done in a Starbucks on South Dixie Highway near the University of Miami. A group of people stood waiting in line at the counter for their coffee and snacks. But one disgruntled white customer got so upset at how long his order was taking that he began screaming “Trump!” at a black employee.
When Univision bought Gawker Media, many media observers questioned whether Fusion’s days were numbered. For years, critics have touted Miami’s Univision as one of the most forward-thinking and daring media organizations in America. Jorge Ramos, the network’s charismatic lead anchor…
Murder evidence is pretty important, so you’d think the Miami Police Department would have a good place to store all of those key items in unsolved cases. But it turns out that for years MPD has kept vital evidence in a metal storage container under an I-95 overpass. As blogger Al Crespo revealed last month, the container rusted, letting in water and pests that destroyed evidence in more than 500 cases.
The following sentence represents the lowest threshold for political “success” in U.S. history: Americans should be actively hoping that Donald Trump turns out just like Florida Gov. Rick Scott. For many Floridians, that idea goes down as easily as a milkshake made from cigarettes and cat litter.
Miami-Dade County overwhelmingly rejected Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election. This past Friday, Miami residents reminded the world that the city really doesn’t like the guy: Protesters shut down two highways to make sure the nation knows Trump’s racist, anti-immigrant policies won’t fly here.
Thanks to the National Rifle Association, academic studies examining the impact of gun laws on public health are hard to come by. The gun lobby helped force the federal government to ban funding for studies that track how gun rules affect the homicide rate.
The day after Hurricane Matthew hit western Haiti, the country’s main airport stopped accepting flights. But across the border, the storm hadn’t touched the Dominican Republic. So Michael Capponi, a Miami Beach nightclub promoter-turned-humanitarian, chartered a flight from South Florida to the DR and then hopped a small private plane…
When the early-morning hours hit on weekends in Miami, a certain ambient sound tends to waft through the main streets. Locals who’ve spent the night in a club know it well: In Miami Beach around 3 or 4 a.m., a warm, fuzzy throb of pulsating bass music floats into the…
Over the weekend, a Columbia University professor from Turkey, N. Turkuler Isiksel, shared his best advice for fighting Donald Trump if his administration turns toward autocracy. “Protest early and often,” wrote Isikel, who lived through the rise of the democratically elected strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Miami often acts as a bellwether for the nation’s issues. After all, the Magic City is a majority-minority community with serious affordability, transportation, and climate problems. If Miami finds a way to beat those challenges, that’s a great sign for the rest of the country.
If you want to snap Miami out of its warm, tropical stupor, you shut down its highways. At 6 last night, a few hundred Miamians upset by Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency gathered outside the entrance to the Bayfront Park Amphitheater downtown. The crowd quickly spilled into the…
