A recent poll of Floridians found that the majority support the idea of taking federal money to expand Medicaid in the state, but it also found that a plurality of Floridians support Rick Scott’s lawsuit against the federal government to stop Medicaid expansion in the state. The results of the…
The US Coast Guard unloaded approximately $10.9 million worth of cocaine and $1.8 million worth of marijuana seized in two incidents off the coasts of Columbia and Panama last month. The seizures were the latest efforts in the Government’s Operation Martillo, an element of the ongoing war on drugs that targets…
Lots of weird things happen every week in Florida, and every Friday we’re here to rap up the weirdest. This week: battery by pizza, a shark crash on I-95, and a reminder not to call police to report your missing marijuana money. Florida Man Arrested For Throwing Pizza at Roommate…
Republicans in Tallahassee have slowly chipped away at women’s ability to easily access abortion services in the state of Florida, and this year they were successful in following the lead of a number of other Republican controlled states by passing a bill that requires woman to undergo counseling 24 hours…
The New York Times recent odd reports of Marco Rubio’s traffic tickets and personal finances have caused something quite odd. Even the most progressive voices are rallying around Rubio to critique the Times’ stories. Last night even John Stewart got into the fun last night, wondering, “How is this frontage…
Is Rep. Alan Grayson about to shake up the 2016 Florida Senate race? He’s just staffed up with a formidable election team, singled out Rep. Patrick Murphy, a moderate Democrat who is already in the race, in a news release, and recent polls show he could indeed have a shot…
The Miami Marlins opened their wallets big time this off season. They re-signed Giancarlo Stanton to a blockbuster $325 million, 13 year deal. They gave Christian Yelich a seven-year deal worth almost $50 million. Then they brought in Michael Morse for two years for $16 million. Their total payroll is…
On the day when Miami-Dade Commissioners discuss instituting fines instead of arrests for minor pot possession offenses, one of Miami’s most famous stoners has been arrested on marijuana charges in Georgia. According to WSB-TV, a police officer in Fayetteville County, Georgie originally pulled over a Bentley Ross was in for…
Carnival Cruises is sick of it passengers getting to turnt at high tide on smuggled booze, so the Miami-based cruise line has decided to ban passengers from bringing all bottled beverages on board because they know you’re smuggling booze in them. The company introduced the new policy yesterday in an…
Casa Casuarina, perhaps better known as the former Versace Mansion, is one of the most famous buildings on South Beach …but no one can figure out what to do with it. Less than two years after buying it at auction, its current owners have put it back on the market. …
For decades of Cold War deep freeze, communications between Miami’s exilios and their relatives back in Cuba were beyond primitive. Family updates came only from newly arrived relatives who survived the raft trip to America. Back in Havana, radio signals that bounced past censors or the odd smuggled foreign newspaper…
On the night of October 1st, 2005, Nigel Whatley and Michael Morris were leaving Club Boi, a now closed gay and bisexual nightclub in Liberty City and were walking back to Morris’ new Infiniti G35. That’s when a man attempted to rob them. The assailant ended up shooting Whatley to…
Last week The New York Times published the traffic infraction history of Marco Rubio and his wife that was widely panned. The “shocking” findings: the Rubios are typical Miami driver. The piece was widely panned by other outlets, and even spawned a Twitter Hashtag — #RubioCrimeSpree — mocking the lowball…
The Washington Post today rounded up the top 50 hospitlas in America that charge patients the “highest markup of prices over their actual costs,” in effect gouging costumers. 20 of them are in Florida. Which isn’t exactly surprising. Consider the fact that 49 of those hospitals are for-profit center. 14…
“Miami Is Highly Unequal — But Is That Bad?” reads the headline of an article on Forbes.com today by Scott Beyer. Unsurprisingly for a piece in a publication named after and edited by arch free market conservative Steve Forbes, the answer Beyer comes to is, “No, not really.” So you…
Brian Nobles, a Miami-Dade County corrections sergeant, could find himself on the other side of the cell after being arrested for beating his girlfriend. The victim claims that incident was just the latest in a line of physical assaults, and claims that Nobles even once assaulted her while he was…
Developers of luxury condo high-rises in Miami have had it pretty good for the past few years. Grab some famed starchitect, give your property some outrageously expensive and kind of silly amenities, slap a vague name on it like 2200 Ocean on it and then just sell a bunch of…
According to various rumors and reports, Pat Riley has a big plan to sign Kevin Durant when he hits free agency next sumer. Which would be great, considering Durant owned a condo that directly overlooked the Heat’s American Airlines Arena …or he did anyway. The Oklahoma City Thunder star just…
When developer Michael Simkins started snapping up properties in the Southeast Overtown, Park West neighborhood last year no one knew exactly what he had mind. Then plans leaked out to the public that he wanted to build a 633-foot giant LCD advertisement structure to outrage, but Simkins soon wanted the…
The New York Times, the paper of record with a combined 114 Pulitzer Prizes, has really outdone itself with its latest shocker. It’s the kind of in depth investigation that could change the course of American politics for ever. They’ve found that Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette have —gasp—…
Given that Miami is home to Vine’s reigning teen stunt queen Lele Pons, we imagine educators throughout the county shudder whenever the hear the phrase “Do it for the Vine!” What is doing it for the Vine? Well, it’s doing something incredibly stupid or outrageous while your friend records it…
There are 8,000 new hotel rooms expected to be built over the next five years in Miami-Dade. That will add to a total hotel room inventory n the county that’s already well over 50,000 rooms, but apparently we’ll need them all. Turns out Miami hotels lead the nation in key…
