Uber Is Launching UberPOOL in Miami

A day after we tested out eight different ways to commute through Miami, Uber is introducing a new one. The increasingly popular car-by-app service is set to launch its UberPOOL offering in Miami. UberPOOL is essentially carpooling through Uber. A user indicates we’re they want to go and the app…

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Questions if Marco Rubio Is Really Hispanic

Last night on MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews stumbled into the tricky issue of Cuban identity and completely fumbled on the issue. Naturally, the host and his panel were discussing Tuesday’s Republican Primary debate, and while talking about an interaction between Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Matthews just decided…

Keep Ocean Drive Tacky

There’s something almost all great destination cities across the globe have in common: a tacky tourist zone that locals have almost completely ceded to visitors and tend to avoid like the plague. In New York it’s Times Square with its Guy Fieri restaurants and Sesame Street-knock off character. In New…

Florida Still Ranks Third for Those Without Health Insurance

Florida had one of the highest rates of people living without health insure before President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was passed, and now five years after it initially passed, Florida still ranks third in the nation for those left uninsured. The good news however is that that still means there’s now…

Developer Moishe Mana Moves Forward on Massive Complex in Wynwood

When the late developer Tony Goldman first set his sites on Wynwood he imagined turning the sleepy industrial district into an arts-friendly neighborhood with existing low-rise warehouses being converted into everything from restaurants to art galleries to office space with the assist of colorful street art on their exteriors. Take…

Gator-Kind Triumphs in Rematch Against Pythons

There have been may a classic battle fought in Florida. Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) vs Sonny Liston in 1964. The battles of the Miami Hurricanes and Florida State Seminoles in the early ’90s. The Rock vs John Cena at WrestleMania XXVIII.  But perhaps no face-off was quite as…

Poll: Bush and Carson Would Beat Clinton in Florida

Conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are having a little fun now with their support off outsider oddball candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson, but when it comes times to actually buckle down and start voting they’ll shift towards a more “electable candidate.” Well, if the latest poll…