A single vote today could dash David Beckham’s dreams of building a Major League Soccer stadium in Miami. City of Miami commissioners will meet this morning to consider the fate of Miami Freedom Park, a proposed $1 billion commercial complex including a 25,000-seat soccer field for the nascent MLS franchise Inter Miami.
The circus is coming to town, but not everyone is celebrating. Sarasota-based Garden Bros. Circus, whose current North American tour has been met with protests and scathing news reports on several stops, must be hoping to encounter a warmer welcome in South Florida, where it will stage shows through next week.
There are tight elections, and then there’s yesterday’s race for the Group IV seat on the Miami Beach City Commission, which was so close it makes Gore-Bush look like a cakewalk.
To say GEO Group is in a slump is to put it mildly. The last time the prison company’s stock prices remained this low was in 2016, when the Obama administration announced it would phase out all federal contracts with privatized correctional facilities.
It’s a bad time to be an immigrant in the United States — and an especially bad time to be one in Florida. The Sunshine State has become a spill tray for the various anti-immigrant initiatives spewing from the White House.
A Miami immigration judge with less than two years of experience on the bench was fast-tracked for a permanent position on the nation’s highest immigration court. The move has raised concerns about politicized hiring at the Justice Department.
Despite attracting shady condo sales and sleazy politicians, the Miami metropolitan area is also fertile ground for startups. It’s so fertile, in fact, South Florida ranks among the top four places in the nation for new minority-owned businesses.
After receiving substantial blowback this morning, Miami Herald leadership backpedaled on a decision to exclude two of its journalists from an upcoming vote on whether to unionize employees in the Herald and El Nuevo Herald newsrooms.
In Miami’s fast-growing Venezuelan community, few things are worse than being known as an enchufado. It’s a scarlet letter worn by those believed to have enriched themselves through political connections to the regimes of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and the late Hugo Chávez.
For the second time in one week, police were called to investigate a disturbance at a senior housing complex following a visit from Miami City Commission District 1 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla — this time over the alleged assault of an elderly woman.
Just five months after facing allegations of ballot tampering after a WhatsApp chat was leaked to New Times, Miami-Dade County Commission District 1 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla is now accused of further misconduct on the campaign trail.
As momentum behind legalizing recreational marijuana in Florida continues to grow, Republicans are tapping new wells for cold water to throw on the movement. Tuesday, Harvard Medical School professor Bertha Madras gave an hourlong presentation about the dangers of marijuana in front of the state House Health and Human Services Committee.
Miriam Alba is tired of being tired. An immigrant from Nicaragua, she wears her exhaustion like a uniform, juggling multiple jobs to keep a roof over her head and help put her granddaughter through college.
If misery loves company, tourists newly arrived in Miami can rest easy knowing that going through customs here basically sucks for everyone. It’s so bad, in fact, that Miami International Airport (MIA) ranks among the worst customs wait times in the nation when it comes to processing international travelers.
The greyhound industry isn’t taking defeat well. After unsuccessfully suing to keep a measure banning dog racing off the Florida ballot last year, greyhound breeders and trainers are headed back to court. This time, they’re arguing that the ban — approved by 69 percent of state voters in the 2018 election — strips their dogs of their earning potential.
Last week, New Times reported on a brouhaha stirred by a recent Facebook post from Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz, who has been accused of racist dog-whistling for writing, seemingly out of the blue, that “Dade County politics” are not needed in Pembroke Pines.
Twenty days — no more, no less. That’s the length of time the Bahamian government gave the island’s undocumented communities to recover from Hurricane Dorian before it recommenced deportations — just a shade less than three weeks to pick up the pieces of their lives strewn by the storm, the strongest in history to hit the northern Bahamas.
In a recent Facebook post, Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz wrote a single sentence in simple white text on a purple background: “I am sure you will agree, we don’t need Dade County politics in Pembroke Pines.” What came next was a flood of confused comments followed by much debate and…
Last week, New Times published an article based on a new report by the nonprofit Education Reform Now on racial funding gaps in Florida’s public school system. Saturday, a spokesperson for the group informed New Times that the authors had mistakenly assessed the schools’ nonwhite enrollment, drastically altering the report’s findings.
As the United States moves closer to admitting record low levels of refugees, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez says the county is ready to resettle additional people. But that might not be up to him anymore.
Florida is back to draining swamps, and for once, it’s not the Everglades. Long considered one of the most corrupt places in the country, the Sunshine State is apparently raising the bar when it comes to transparency around ethics enforcement.
In a direct blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Senate special master tasked with considering the suspension of former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has concluded that the embattled cop should be reinstated.
