Former Rep. David Rivera loves holding political office. He loves it so much he once, amongst other allegations, illegally funded a ringer candidate in a primary race against his Democratic opponent. Miami-Dade voters apparently no longer like having David Rivera in political office. After serving a single term in the…
The Wynwood real estate market certainly isn’t settling down anytime soon. Prices just keep going up. In fact, a warehouse that sold for just $3,000,000 in 2014, was just re-sold for an astounding $22 million. That’s an astounding 663 percent gain on an investment that was made a mere 17 months ago. …
A few years ago we looked up the weirdest Maimi-related terms on Urban Dictionary, but, we realized, there’s the entire state of Florida out there and an entire world of Florida-related terms. The internet’s favorite depository for slang definitions did not dissapoint. Here’s our favorites. Exlcuding most of the sexual…
It wasn’t an endorsement as much as a call for unity, but Florida Governor Rick Scott has finally thrown his chips in the Donald Trump pile. Sort of. In a message on Facebook today, Scott urged Republicans to basically just give up on any hope of anyone else winning the nomination…
Florida, it seemed, was never going to feel the Bern. Sure, young voters aged 18-29 came out in large numbers (they made up 16 percent of primary voters, compared to just 9 percent in 2008) and largely voted for Sanders, but Clinton won, well, almost everyone else across the board…
In a result widely forecasted in polls, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has won their party’s perspective primaries in Florida by hefty margins. Clinton is besting Bernie Sanders all across the state, but is doing particularly well in the tri-county area of South Florida, which is home to the state’s largest…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine will be the first mayor of a city in Miami-Dade to visit Cuba in an official capacity since 1959 he announced today. Levine is framing the trip as a learning opportunity and hopes to scope out what effects the opening of Cuba to American visitors…
Ted Cruz never called out Marco Rubio’s so-called Miami values. Unlike efforts to paint Barack Obama as a product of that “corrupt Chicago political machine,” few opponents have smeared Rubio as a product of Miami’s banana-republic-as-usual political world. In the 2010 Senate race, a Charlie Crist ally once lambasted Rubio…
On the day Florida goes to vote and ahead of President Obama’s trip to Havana this weekend, the White House announced a new slew of easing regulations on tourism and some financial rules with Cuba. The new rules will have major effects on travel between the country, and will pave…
For more than a century the heterosexual couples living together in Florida have had to live in the shadow of the law unless they decided to enter into legally recognized holy matrimony. Thanks to a law dating back from the 1800s, the oppressed Florida heterosexual, or “straight” couples as many…
Early voting days wrapped up in Florida this weekend, and the share of Floridians heading to the polls before election day has hit record numbers. On the Democratic side, early and absentee voting is up more than 200 percent since the 2008 primary. For Republicans, the number is up roughly…
12,000 people — about one in eight inmates — are currently being held in solitary confinement in Florida state prisons according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The organization, along with a coalition of civil rights organizations, faith leaders and advocates for the mentally ill, is now calling on the U.S…
South Florida and Miami in particularly has worked hard to shed its image as America’s (or at least New York’s) retirement home. Nope, this is no longer supposed to be the land of bubbes suntanning in bathing caps and old men hitting up the golf course. This is supposed to…
At last night’s GOP debate at the University of Miami, moderator Jack Tapper posed a question that came from none other than Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, a Republican who has endorsed Marco Rubio, to Rubio himself. The topic was climate change. It was a pretty simple question: “Climate change means…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: 20 kilos of coke wash up on a beach, a drunk, pants-less woman who crashed into a Waffle House scores a Florida bingo, and two siblings who stole…
Ask anyone a year ago who they’d think would win the Republican primary in Florida and they probably would have told you either our Florida former Governor Jeb Bush or current Senator Marco Rubio. Both are home-state boys, and both looked like they were gearing up for well-funded, serious runs…
Trevor Darling and Jahair Jones, two offensive lineman for the University of Miami Hurricanes, found themselves behind bars last night for the dumbest reason. The pair were basically standing in the middle of the road, and were arrested after refusing orders by police to get out of the road several…
Florida Republican lawmakers have been chipping away at abortion rights for years, but yesterday the Florida legislature passed its most sweeping anti-abortion law to date. The bill is now headed to Governor Rick Scott’s desk, but significant parts of the law may be struck down by the Supreme Court by…
The two biggest stories in Miami right now and for the foreseeable future: the looming threat of sea-level rise and the gentrification and development of formerly working class ethnic neighborhoods and the dearth of affordable housing. Nothing else poses bigger problems to our city’s future, and both stories have been…
Last night, Bernie Sanders managed to pull a historical upset against Hillary Clinton in the Michigan Primary but to capture the nomination he’ll have to pull off a few more of those magical upsets. A strong showing in Florida, the state with the fourth most Democratic delegates, next week would…
It’s finally official. Cameras are coming to the bodies of Miami-Dade’s cops. Three-and-a-half years after the idea was initially proposed, the Miami-Dade County Commission has voted to approve a program to equip county officers with body cameras. “With today’s approval, approximately 1,000 Miami-Dade police officers will be equipped with body-worn…
There is nothing worse about partying in Miami than running into the tourist who is just a little too excited to be partying in Miami and has lost all possible chill because of it. You know exactly what we’re talking about, but in case you don’t, well, Cuba Gooding Jr…
