With most of the major renovations at the Doral Golf Resort Trump National Doral completed, the Trump family has spent the better part of 2015 promoting their recent acquisition. As the story goes, Ivanka Trump, Donald’s daughter, was key in negotiating the deal to acquire the property back in 2011…
When you think Florida you think retirees. Just about everyone has a grandparent or at least a great aunt living down here. We were the setting of the Golden Girls after all, and somehow the average age in Florida just keep getting older. So we may be a popular place…
According to Best Doctor, Miami is the 8th “most bike-friendly” city in America, only behind a handful of cycling meccas like Portland, Oakland and DC. To determine this the analysis graded each of America’s 52 largest cities on three different criteria. Miami actually did horribly in two of the three,…
Ana Quincoces’ time on The Real Housewives of Miami was brief, but her vacation time down in the keys was cut even shorter. First by cockroaches and then by the law. Quincoces has a suspended license, but continued to drive freely. Apparently she’s been spending a lot of time down…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection made interesting discovery back on February 27th right here on the Miami River. They found 797 pounds of cocaine hidden inside a boat on the Miami River, leading to one of the largest recent cocaine seizure in Miami in recent memory. The Miami Border Enforcement Security…
It was less than two years ago that Lucie Tondreau was elected as North Miami’s first female Hatiian-American mayor. This morning she was sentenced to 65 months behind bars for her role in a real estate fraud scheme. No one said that corruption wasn’t an equal opportunity in Miami-Dade. Tondreau…
Last July, Alexander Figueroa was one of two players who was promptly kicked off the Miami Hurricanes football team after an arrest on charges that he and teammate JaWand Blue drugged and raped a 17-year-old girl on campus. Figueroa ended up avoiding jail time and will have his felony charges dropped…
With Debbie Wasserrman Schultz and Charlie Crist officially out of the race, Rep. Patrick Murphy, a Democrat from Palm Beach County, announced today that he’ll run for Senate in 2016 …whether or not Marco Rubio decides to vacate it to run for President or not. At just 31 year of…
When one thinks of South Florida it’s not hard to imagine brightly colored speedos, drag queens doing splits on sidewalks, movies like The Birdcage, gay enclaves like Wilton Manors, circuit parties and the Gianni Versace heydays of South Beach. The region isn’t exactly trying to downplay its shades of gay,…
Settle down, this has nothing to do with towing on the Beach, but the FBI did make six arrests for local towing corruption involving city of Miami police officers and public safety aids. When you get into a car accident and an officer arrives on the seen in Miami you…
This past October the city commission of South Miami, which for better or worse hardly ever makes local headlines, made national headlines by passing a resolution calling for Florida to be split into two separate states. The idea didn’t go anywhere but viral online, but the commission decided to try…
For every dream that comes true in Florida, a nightmare is made. Strange things happen here every week, and every Friday we’re here to bring you the strangest. This week we have a man who is either a common burglar or possibly made a very bad decision by trusting Mariah…
“Termites thrive in warm, moist environments,” says Doug Webb, a Terminex technical specialist, in a statement touting the company’s rankings of America’s most termite infected cities. From that alone you should be able to determine that Miami made the list, and indeed we did at number six. Terminix released its rankings…
File this under things we all sort of knew, but now have academic research to back it up. A recently published study by a research at the University of Miami has confirmed that staying friends with your ex-partner on Facebook can make a breakup that much harder, especially for those…
Since December, Manhattanites and Manhattanites alone have been able to enjoy a one-hour delivery service from online retail giants Amazon. Now, Miami (along with Baltimore) will be the second city to get to try the service. Amazon Prime Now delivery has been launched in select Miami zip codes effective immediately. …
If a Miamian finds themselves in the middle of Wyoming, America’s least populace state, its probably for very odd reasons. Edelberto Herrera does not disprove this hunch. The 55-year-old Miami resident was stopped recently for speeding while traveling through Interstate 80 in the state, and investigates soon discovered that he 75…
The vast income inequality in Miami is no secret. Barring traffic, you can be driving around and surrounded by mansions with well manicured, fenced in lawns one moment and then surrounded by slums ten minutes later. Homeless people sleep on sidewalks blocks from glittering luxury condo towers designed by some…
Governor Rick Scott ran his first campaign as a political outsider, but apparently now he’s dreaming of becoming a Beltway insider. Scott is reportedly thinking of mounting a run for Senate, at least according to a vague report from The Tampa Bay Times. Though not in 2016 should Marco Rubio…
News of popular Univision host Rodner Figueroa being sacked after comparing First Lady Michelle Obama’s appearance to that of the cast of the Planet of the Apes shook Latin media last week, but it’s only now making its way through the mainstream English-language media. The topic became hot on Monday’s edition…
Though many residents remain skeptical, the Miami-Dade County Commission overwhelming welcomed the plan to build North America’s largest mall complex in Northeast Miami-Dade. The commission took its first official vote on a land deal at today’s meeting, and approved in a 10-2 vote. Triple Five, the developers behind the plan…
A bill that would ban transgender people from using their preferred public bathrooms has now made its way through its second committee, but not without some changes. The bill has been amended to make an exception for some transgender people who have legally changed their gender on government documentation. In…
The Florida Democratic party suffers from a noticeably weakened bench ready to run for higher officer when compared to its Republican counterpart. So it’s interesting news that two of the state’s best known — though perhaps most divisive — Democrats both announced that they will not run for Senate in…
