Who could forget one of the biggest Florida political controversies of 2003? Jeb Bush’s nebulous scheme to raise fees on snake owners was all Floridians could talk about in the spring of ’03. It nearly tore families and friends apart. I can still clearly remember one particular tense family gathering…
Last year The New York Times dug into Marco Rubio’s ticket-strewn driving history, and the local response was, “Well, he pretty much drives like a typical Miamian.” Turns out the Times missed a pretty big part of Rubio’s legal history that The Washington Post only just dug up: he was…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week, one dog was traded for drugs and another met a cruel fate because he looked at his owner “weird.” In non-dog stories, while moonshine usually reminds us of authors…
Florida’s Republican-lead legislature has a reputation for passing laws favorable to the gun lobby, but some measures even go to far for them. A bill that would have allowed people to carry guns onto college campuses has died in committee just nine days into the legislature’s 2016 session, and doesn’t…
A video currently going viral purports to show a woman trashing an Uber driver’s car near Mary Brickell Village over the weekend after a disagreement. According to YouTube user Juan Cinco’s description of events, he and his friends had ordered an Uber through the app, when the woman in the video…
Oh boy, what did we ever do to deserve this? A day after the Democratic presidential candidates come to Miami for their final debate, the Republicans will follow suit to conclude what’s proving to be America’s favorite reality series. The Republican National Committee announced last year that they’ll hold a…
If you want to live a lifestyle infused with that Armani touch, buy a unit in the underconstruction luxury towaer Residences by Armani/Casa in Sunny Isles Beach. But if you really, really love everything Armani and want a once in a lifetime Armani experiance, well, you’ll have to buy the Penthouse. …
Last week, Uber e-mailed its Miami-Dade customers to not so subtly threaten to pull out of the county if the County Commission passed a ordinance the rider-sharing company viewed as unfavorable. Well, at today’s Commission meeting that ordinance’s sponsor, Chairman Jean Monestime announced that he was pulling the legislation. “Based on…
Donald Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with what many saw as anti-Hispanic remarks. According to the latest poll from Florida Atlantic University, Trump is now strongly leading among the state’s Republican GOP voters. Trump is now the favorite candidate of nearly 48 percent of all likely Republican primary voters (a…
Sure, it seems like a line out of a satirical article about media consolidation, but your abuela’s favorite porvayor of Telenovelas has bought a controling stake in your hipster cousin’s favorite fake news website. Univision announced this morning it has purchased a 40 percent controlling stake in The Onion, with…
It’s been an entire month since a major presidential preference poll was taking amongst Florida’s Republican primary voters. They’ve had weeks of new developments, another debate, numerous new wacky ads put out by the candidates, and, we’re sure, wonderfully illuminating discussion about the race with their relatives over the Holiday…
Another reason why owning a Lamborghini in South Beach is no longer worth it: can you really trust the valets to handle your car with care? According to a few recounts on social media, back on December 29th a valet was tasked with parking a red Lamborghini on South Beach,…
A coach being fired and replaced can often wreck havoc on a college football team’s recruiting class during the first year, but Mark Richt seems to be determined to make sure that the Miami Hurricanes keep their class in the top 25. And he’s doing something sort of odd to…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a man who used his bride as a mop, a boy band vet gets arrested for a Key West bar fight, and two Deadpools break a fourth wall. Man…
The Real Housewives of D.C. and Miami are the only two entrants in the Bravo franchise that have been cancelled, and yet somehow one of Miami’s representatives in Washington D.C. has snagged herself a cameo on one of the shows. This Sunday, Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Miami Gardens Democrat, will…
Uber continues to thrive in Miami-Dade despite the fact its technically illegal. After some early attempts to get the ride-sharing service out of town after its initial launch, Mayor Carlos Gimenez decided to let the company, and its competitor Lyft, continue to operate in a legal gray area. On January…
Part-time Florida man Donald Trump stopped into the state last night to address his fellow Florida Republicans at a Pensacola rally. At least 11,000 people showed up to hear Trump speak, but the GOP frontrunner reserved his speech’s harshest anger for his microphone. “Five hundred and five billion, and by the…
Hotels, by definition, are for tourists. Yet Miami locals love our hotels. We love eating at their restaurants, sneaking into their pools, dancing at their clubs … sometimes waking up in their beds next to a Brazilian we met at their club. You know how it goes. There’s no short…
Despite the fact that neither Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush are the frontrunner, the pair and the political PACs continue to duke it out in a fight that’s starting to seem as much like a playground fight as it does an odd personal matter. In today’s episode, Bush called Rubio…
New coaches can have the effect of having causing an immediate turn around for a team, but if you think new Miami Hurricanes coach Mark Richt is going to be able to come in and collect a National Championship in his first year, well, Vegas wants to tamper your expectations…
The dirty secret of Miami’s latest luxury condo boom? Some of those sky high penthouses are being bought by international criminals and other shady individuals in order to launder money. How many? Well, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) wants to find out. Take Spanish drug kingpin Alvaro Lopez…
The Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. the FEC paved the way for SuperPACs, independent political action committees that could raise unlimited donations and spend as much as they want in pursuit of their goals. Some predicted the development could forever ruin democracy as we knew it, but Jeb Bush, the…
