Gulliver Prep’s head baseball coach is out of a job and facing possible investigation by law enforcement officers after sending a sexually explicit video to his players. Javier Rodriguez, was a star at at Gulliver when attended as a child and went on to be a star for the University…
Working a minimum wage job in Florida can now no longer even afford you two hours worth of curbside parking in South Beach anymore. Starting on Monday, Miami Beach hiked parking prices for surface lots and curb side parking spaces across the city, but not all hikes were equal. The biggest…
If there’s one thing that the South and South Florida can agree on, its that South Florida is definitely not the South. Not culturally anyway. Sure, we may be geographically one of the most southern parts of the United States, but culturally we’re some mix of New York and the…
Florida has one of the most unusual set of laws concerning what it takes to sentence someone to death in the entire nation. Florida also sends more inmates to death row than most other states in the nation. Since the Death Penalty was reinstated in 1976, only Texas, Oklahoma and…
When the NRA says “jump,” Republicans in Florida’s state legislature ask “how high,” and then manage to jump even higher. The state has long been a leader in passing NRA-backed legislation. It’s why we’re known as the “Stand Your Ground” state after all. Florida’s passage of a “shall issue” concealed…
Lamar Odom only played with the Miami Heat for a season, but it was an important one in the history of the team. It was Dwyane Wade’s rookie year, and Odom was a key part of a roster that saw the team transition from an after thought in the league…
The future of David Beckham’s Major League Soccer team in Miami has been stuck on one question since it was announced in February 2014: Where are they going to play. While the most likely scenario at the moment seems to be a new stadium new Marlins Park, that question remain…
The Florida Gators turnaround from last year’s mediocrity to this year’s unbeaten streak of six games seemed almost too good to be true …and it might actually have been. Yesterday the school announced that its star freshman quarterback Will Grier had tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and could face…
Miami will be threatened by rising sea levels over the next few centuries. On that there’s pretty much scientific consensus. The only question is exactly how much. Well, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America predicts that our…
Guns rights groups in Florida are desperately trying to give students the right to have a gun on the state’s college campuses despite polling indicate that just about everyone else thinks thats just a horrible idea. One strange example of why that might not be such a hot idea played…
Ask a random person to name a few things they identify Florida and you’ll probably get answers like beaches, old people and orange juice. Orange juice is after all our official state beverage and oranges decorate our default license plates, but it turns out that the state’s OJ industry is…
Florida was probably the most useless state to the Confederacy. Our population was small, our land was hard to secure, and the biggest thing we really contributed to that controversial cause was salt. For a lot of reasons, its not exactly the most controversial thing in Florida to try and…
House Republicans are in an absolute mess at the moment as they struggle to figure out who will emerge as their new Speaker of the house, but the temporary brouhaha may lead to Rep. Dan Webster’s — and Florida’s — gain. The conservative from Central Florida has emerged as a…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Fridays, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: a woman who literally stole her sweetie’s sweet tooth, a car thief who apparently wanted to speed up the judicial process, and a woman afraid of Arabic numbers. Florida…
Perhaps the calls for the sacking of defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle were slightly louder than those for the job of head coach Joe Philbin. So when the Fins announced earlier this week that Philbin was shown the bin with now word on Coyle’s continued employment, some were left scratching their…
Gentrification is an incredibly complicated social phenomenon. At its worse it means the local culture and identity created by lower class folks (in Miami, often immigrants) is replaced by what seems almost like focus group-tested trendiness and all sorts of bougie nonsense. At its best it means maybe an underutilized…
People, and, well, occasionally animals come to America from all over the world in search of a better life. Yet, for all the success stories of people who manage to grab a piece of the American dream, there’s an occasional tragedy. Such is the sad case of Chiquitica, the Cuban…
A narrow majority of Floridians now say they’re open to totally legalizing recreational marijuana in the state, but the vast majority of them say they wouldn’t use it. According to Quinnipiac, 51 percent say they’re open to adults legally possessing small amount of marijuana, while 45 percent say they oppose…
Remember back in 1967 when the Supreme Court ruled that interracial marriage should be legal throughout all of America in Loving vs Virginia? That was a pretty good decision, I think we all agree, don’t we? One interesting note about that is that not one single pastor, priest or minister…
Poll numbers suggest that Florida’s march to medical marijuana is inevitably, but it sure is taken a long time to get there. Sure, law makers approved non-smokable and non-euphoric “Charlotte’s Web” medicinal marijuana for a narrow slice of patients back in 2014, but so far the state has stalled on…
Last month brought news that the penthouse at the Faena House development on Miami Beach was sold for $60 million, making it the most expensive residential property ever bought in Miami and shattering the previous record by a cool $11 million. To Miamians it was an astounding accusation. To the…
Donald Trump’s popularity shows no signs of slipping in Florida. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows Trump atop all his GOP rival amongst Republican primary voters with 28 percent lining up behind the Donald. That’s actually a rise of 7 percent since the last time Quinnipiac polled Florida in late August. …
