Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old, black father of four, was killed by police in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday. He was shot to death, on video, after walking peacefully with his hands raised away from three cops. Crutcher, a Christian who regularly sang in church, had stopped his SUV in the middle…
When Andrew Mossberg, then 50, stumbled upon what he says was a man beating up a woman in Miami Beach in 2013, Mossberg immediately assumed the man was a thieving bandit. So Mossberg stepped in to help. It turned out the man harassing the woman, Phillipe Archer, was actually an…
Everyone sends nude photographs. That includes women, men, married people, singles, adults, teens — everyone. Flirty photos are a standard part of a relationship in the smartphone age. But posting someone’s naked picture on the internet against his or her will constitutes sexual harassment, period. As one might expect, digital…
Donald Trump has based his entire, race-baiting presidential campaign around the fact that foreign immigrants are coming to America, stealing people’s jobs, and destroying the economy. Not only is this demonstrably false — there’s been ample evidence since Trump started campaigning to show he doesn’t practice what he preaches. His…
Harvard scientist Dr. Michael Callahan, one of the world’s preeminent experts on the Zika virus, has said in a video interview that aerial spraying to combat the Zika virus likely does not work to kill disease-carrying Aedes aegpyti mosquitoes. Callahan, who works at the world-renowned Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical…
Two years ago, Miami-Dade County closed the ninth floor of its Pretrial Detention Center, which held mentally ill inmates awaiting trial in putrid, dangerous, and obscene conditions. For years, CBS4 had dubbed the ward the “Forgotten Floor,”and the U.S. Department of Justice called the conditions there unconstitutional. But although the county is…
In just over a month, naled has gone from a largely unknown pesticide to the most hotly debated issue in Miami’s fight against the Zika virus. The controversial organophosphate pesticide, which is banned in the European Union and could harm infants, has been the county’s main weapon against Zika virus-carrying…
On Wednesday, New Times reported that the city of Coral Gables, which obtained two mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored military trucks (MRAPs) from the U.S. Department of Defense, was “graciously” donating one of the tank-like vehicles to Miami Beach. That city said it needed the truck to drive through flooded areas and protect…
Miami’s Third District Court of Appeal yesterday declined to put a citizen-backed campaign-finance reform bill up for a public vote this November, according to documents published by blogger Al Crespo. The decision likely ends a summer-long fight between a union-backed group pushing the county to get money out of politics,…
One of two things will happen in Downtown Miami tonight. One: Donald Trump, who is leading an impromptu, 6 p.m. rally at the James L. Knight Center, and Kanye West, who will host his first of two Saint Pablo Tour shows at the American Airlines Arena at 8 p.m., will…
When the Zika virus hit Miami Beach in August, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden speculated that pregnant women might want to avoid the entirety of Miami-Dade County for a few months. “If you’re concerned about Zika, you may consider postponing all non-essential travel to all…
Just after 11 a.m. today, a former Columbia University professor, who now serves as dean of Florida International University’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, stood in front of a packed crowd at Miami Beach City Hall. Opening his speech, Dr. Thomas R. Guilarte thanked everyone in attendance…
Miami is in the midst of the most spirited debate it’s had regarding campaign-finance reform in years. Barring the results of legal appeals and a counter-suit filed this week, a group of activists has forced Miami-Dade County to let its citizens vote on a measure that would cut political donations…
In the two years since the Ferguson riots, local police departments have come under fire for buying needless military equipment and using it to crack down on peaceful protesters. Departments, including many in Miami-Dade County, have been lambasted for wasting tax dollars on surplus grenade launchers, anti-aircraft weapons, and armored…
Roughly a year ago today, U.S. News and World Report, the oft-criticized college-ranking news magazine, booted the University of Miami from its list of the top 50 national universities for the first time in six years. Until then, the school had been neck-and-neck with the University of Florida in the…
Perhaps the most cliche thing you can do in this town is stick your head through a hotel-room window or luxury-car sunroof and scream something dumb, like “I love Miami!” or “Here’s to the life!” into the warm night air. It’s pretty much a rite of passage in South Beach, and…
If Miami’s going to stop the spread of Zika, residents have to trust that the government knows what it’s doing. That’s why it’s all the more concerning that the Florida Department of Health last week published an outright lie in a Q&A on the virus and the pesticides being used to combat…
There may not be two groups of people more diametrically opposed to one another than the residents of Reykjavik, Iceland and Miami, Florida. The former group lives a socially-responsible existence in one of the cleanest, greenest, and least crime-ridden areas of the world. The other mainlines cocaine every weekend on…
Less than 48 hours ago, nine Miami-Dade County Commissioners hemmed and hawed over a citizen-backed initiative that would have cut campaign donations to just $250 per person and banned people who get huge checks from the county from donating. Those same commissioners decided Wednesday afternoon to prevent voters from getting…
Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the American Legion Harvey W. Seeds Post 29 on 64th and Biscayne — known informally as “the Legion” — was one of the few places in Miami where punks, oddballs, hippies, and veterans mingled regularly. Though there was a bar in the back…
Miami Beach residents’ protest against the controversial anti-Zika pesticide naled is quickly morphing from a spirited public debate into an all-out ground war. In protest threads on social media, some protest organizers yesterday suggested that flying drones could intercept the county’s pesticide-spraying airplanes. Michael DeFilippi, the anti-naled organizer who raised…
Miami Beach has based its economy on the fact that strangers love to visit and get drunk there. But it wants residents to know that offering those strangers a place to stay through websites like AirBnB is not an option. In the majority of residential Miami Beach, it’s illegal to…
