On Thursday, as a new batch of Broward County ballots was counted, the margins grew tighter in several key Florida races. Those slim margins illustrate the importance of every single vote — but at least one overseas voter in Broward says the county elections office botched her ballot, raising questions about whether it was counted at all.
A frequently cited study from 2002 says if Florida had allowed felons to vote, Al Gore might have defeated George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election. At the time, 827,000 people in Florida had lost the right to vote due to felony convictions. The study’s authors theorized that nearly 70 percent would have voted as Democrats, thus potentially changing the course of history.
Forty-two percent — that’s how many eligible voters in the United States usually don’t cast ballots. It’s a figure Frank Ocean wants to change. Tuesday, the notoriously reclusive singer made a surprise announcement that he was offering free merchandize in four major U.S. cities — including Miami — to anyone who could prove they had voted.
Last week, the Miami Gardens Police Department fired Sgt. Javier Romaguera, a cop with a long history of unethical and arguably illegal behavior. Hired in 2006, he was accused three years later of filling out a bogus police report, saying he had street contact with a man who was actually in jail at the time…
At least nine former and current residents and employees have come forward with accusations of racial discrimination inside the Mirador 1000, an upscale condo building with its own hair salon and convenience mart where two-bedroom units are listed for up to $800,000.
Over the past few months, former President Barack Obama has endorsed hundreds of Democratic candidates in the November midterms elections. None were running for municipal positions in Florida. Yet a flyer circulating in North Miami Beach claims Obama has endorsed five candidates vying for mayor and the city commission.
Twenty-three-year-old Juvon Simon was at his apartment in Florida City when cops showed up on the afternoon of May 30. According to a witness, Simon ran inside, shut the door, and then dropped dead; a preliminary investigation found that Florida City Police Officer Frantz Hardy was responsible for firing two shots through the door, killing Simon almost instantly.
In the midst of the revelry, a Sigma Chi frat bro bit off a guy’s ear.
Social media posts show that Sayoc, whose grandmother’s last name was Altieri and went by Cesar Altieri in his online profiles, was a big Trump supporter who loathed the Clintons and George Soros. Videos on one of Sayoc’s Facebook profiles show him at Trump rallies and posing with Michael the Black Man.
Friday, federal officers arrested a man outside an AutoZone store in Plantation in connection with several pipe bombs that were sent to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Over the summer, the New York state attorney general whacked President Donald Trump with a massive lawsuit for misusing funds from his charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Among the allegations was a charge that Trump used $10,000 of foundation money to purchase a portrait of himself at a 2014 a children’s charity auction at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. Internet sleuths later tracked down the painting hanging at the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort.
This past Sunday, the New York Times published an explosive report outlining the Trump administration’s plans to create a new definition of sex. Under the proposal, gender would be limited to either male or female and defined as permanent from birth. According to the Times, the Department of Health and Human Services has asked four federal agencies, including the Department of Labor, to adopt the narrow definition.
In the seven years since Coral Gables began installing automatic license-plate readers, resident Raul Mas Canosa estimates the city has captured images of his car “thousands of times.” It’s a reasonable guess: By the end of the year, the City Beautiful is on track to scan more than 30 million license plates despite having a population of only 50,000.
For years, Florida has had one of the highest rates of uninsured residents. So it’s no surprise health care is a top issue for voters going into the November midterms. According to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than a quarter of Florida voters said health care was the most important issue they were considering this election season.
On February 20, an eighth-grader at Miami Beach’s Fienberg-Fisher school got into what amounts to a food fight. Another student doused him with water. He threw milk back. The students’ substitute teacher disciplined the boys, and that seemed to be the end of it.
On March 21, 2012, Beverly Washington — a high-ranking supervisor in Miami-Dade’s solid waste department — left work and headed to the Biltmore in Coral Gables to attend “In the Company of Women,” the county’s annual ceremony honoring women leaders. But despite the messages of female empowerment that night, Washington says a male colleague, Michael Moore, used the opportunity to sexually harass her, whispering “kiss me” and attempting to lick her ear.
Nearly two years after Florida voters approved a referendum legalizing medical marijuana, dispensaries are still few and far between in the Sunshine State. Across Miami-Dade County, only five storefronts sell legal cannabis.
In September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission slapped Miami biotech billionaire Phillip Frost with a massive lawsuit accusing him of stock fraud. According to the SEC, Frost and his co-conspirators artificially inflated the price of stocks and then exited with millions, leaving other investors with virtually worthless shares. After the charges were announced in national media, stock prices for Frost’s company, Opko Health, plummeted.
Miami-Dade’s jail system has been a mess for years. The downtown Pretrial Detention Center is now almost 60 years old. In recent years, the Department of Justice has blasted the county for operating leaky, roach-infested jails with overflowing urinals. And just last week, a correctional supervisor sued Miami-Dade for employment violations because the mold inside the detention center is so bad she can’t breathe.
If cable news and Twitter are pissing you off more than normal lately, find some small comfort in the fact that there are only 34 days left for campaigns to spam you with unwanted emails, glossy postcards, and robocalls. Election Day 2018 is fast approaching, which means the deadline to register to vote is also looming.
At a Tuesday-night rally in Mississippi, President Donald Trump mocked Christine Blasey Ford for her inability to remember certain parts of an attempted sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The crowd clapped and cheered at the president’s remarks about Ford’s memory. But research from a Florida International University professor shows that, overwhelmingly, survivors of childhood and adolescent sexual abuse can accurately recall memories of those traumatic events years later — even if they can’t remember details surrounding the incidents.
As he turns the corner of SW 113th Place in Richmond Heights, Chuck Berriman hits the brake pedal of his red Toyota pickup and looks over his shoulder toward the place where his youngest brother died. “That’s it right there,” he says, pointing toward a dilapidated beige townhouse with an…
