If you’ve been following Florida’s Senate race closely this year, you’ve likely been drinking heavily for months already. After November, one of the state’s two senators is guaranteed be either the gutless Marco Rubio — who failed to defeat Donald Trump and jumped back into the senate race after saying…
Miami is at war with the Aedes aegpyti mosquito. Though minuscule, the tiny, zebra-striped bug is wreaking havoc on the area’s economy through the Zika virus. Government officials have declared an all-out assault on the blood-suckers, but the county’s first line of defense — the much-debated pesticide naled — may not be…
Donald Trump’s campaign is to presidential elections what the Challenger disaster was to Space Shuttle missions — a loud, fiery disaster no one seems capable of stopping. After Trump was accused of groping more than ten women this week, he’s taken a gigantic swan dive in the polls and has…
The U.S. is one of the few developed nations in the world that still imposes the death penalty. But even among U.S. states, Florida’s death-penalty laws are behind the times. Florida was one of only three states where juries did not need to be unanimous to sentence someone to death…
Miamians rarely, if ever, have an excuse to complain about the weather. When the rest of America sits under a smothering carpet of snow, we can still usually go to the beach. Yes, we get some occasional flooding, but our rainstorms usually don’t last longer than Game of Thrones episodes…
Active Zika virus transmissions have returned to mainland Miami. Gov. Rick Scott’s office announced a new “active transmission zone” this afternoon in the heart of Little Haiti and Little River. The one square mile area stretches from NW 63rd Street to NW 79th Street and from N Miami Ave. to…
South Miami Vice Mayor Bob Welsh does not know what the word “badonkadonk” means. Reached on his cell phone today, Welsh insisted the slang term — which references a woman’s large rear-end — was actually a reference to the, ahem, frontal part of a lady’s nether-regions. “Badonkadonk is southern for vajayjay,”…
Miami Beach environmentalist Dave Doebler says he doesn’t think most people know how bad styrofoam really is for the ocean. He says he sees people using temporary, floating docks made from bare styrofoam “all the time.” Most folks quickly pull the docks from the water the minute he tells them…
Empathy isn’t exactly a major part of Rick Scott’s brand. Before taking the governorship, Scott had the distinct honor of running the company that stole the most money from Medicare, the government agency that gives health care to poor people, in history. Things haven’t progressed much since he took office. Thankfully, Florida…
One day in 2010, James Hoefling came home from work to find that his house had gone missing. Hoefling’s home was more mobile than most: He’d lived in a houseboat by the Dinner Key marina in Coconut Grove for 11 years. Hoefling, now 67, works as a marine technician. On…
Marco Rubio is a man of principle. You’ll notice we did not use the word “principles” — that would be far too generous. Rubio abides by one single rule in his life: Do whatever the hell he can to appease his voter base and get re-elected. His morals change with…
Both north and south of Miami, Hurricane Matthew was an unmitigated disaster. More than one thousand Haitians died in the storm, while at least 21 fatalities have been reported in the U.S. so far. Miami completely lucked out as the storm stayed far enough off the coast to barely graze…
Miami Beach resident Michael Capponi, one of Miami’s biggest promoters for clubs including LIV, B.E.D., and Amnesia, also founded one of the nation’s premier Haitian relief organizations in 2011, a year after the Caribbean island was rocked by 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The quake killed between 100,000 and 200,000 people. Capponi, a…
Hurricane Matthew will almost certainly crawl up Florida’s eastern coastline as — at least — a Category 3 storm this weekend. The National Hurricane Center confirmed this yet again in its 5 p.m. update today, which keeps Miami-Dade under a tropical storm warning and most of the state north of…
Hurricane Matthew’s eyewall bulldozed right across Baracoa, Cuba last night, one of the island nation’s oldest and most historic towns. Baracoa was the first city the Spanish settled after landing on the island — some of the town’s buildings have stood since the 1500s. But many were no match for…
Thousands in Miami gathered to mourn Marlins pitching star Jose Fernandez last week, but it appears the city isn’t yet done paying its respects to its fallen baseball hero just yet. City of Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo is proposing the city name a street after the Marlins pitcher, who died…
The updates Miami residents are getting about Hurricane Matthew keep getting worse. After initially predicting the hurricane would miss the Florida coast entirely, the National Hurricane Center said yesterday that portions of South Florida were, indeed, in the storm’s path. This morning, the Center issued hurricane watches for Central Florida,…
It’s been 11 years since a major hurricane hit Miami, the longest streak in South Florida history. Those who lived through the devastation of Hurricane Andrew haven’t forgotten how to prepare for a tropical cyclone. But Florida has added millions of new residents since 1992 — and even since 2005,…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has shown two big talents in recent years: Nabbing high-profile press for his attempts to save his city from climate change, and hobnobbing with A-list celebs. So, when Leonardo DiCaprio started filming a documentary on global warning last year, you bet Levine made sure he…
Miamians still aren’t sure if they should prepare for the III Points Music Festival this weekend or get ready for a multi-foot storm surge. Category 4 Hurricane Matthew is slowly barreling up through the Caribbean and this morning’s predictions that it would stay east of the Florida coastline is now…
In Miami Beach, it’s now illegal to hand anyone food or drinks in styrofoam containers, which dissolve into tiny particles that float along the top of the ocean for hundreds of years. Miami Beach has already issued hundreds of dollars in Styrofoam fines. But it’s apparently still perfectly legal to…
Had a few state senators voted differently last February, Miami-Dade County would have had zero control over whether oil companies could build fracking wells on county soil. That’s because the Senate proposed a bill that would have banned local governments from regulating the controversial oil-drilling process. Critics blasted the measure, saying…
