Otis Wallace, Florida City’s “mayor for life,” is corrupt with power
Otis Wallace, Florida City’s “mayor for life,” is corrupt with power
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Marlins Season Preview: Ozzie Incites War, Zambrano Finds Zen, and Reyes Battles Dreads
Smell that sizzling animal fat? That freshly greased leather and those brand new jock straps? Baseball is back, baby. And it’s going to be a hell of year for America’s favorite pastime here in Miami.Your hated enraging taxpayer-duping newly rechristened Miami Marlins begin spring training today. What better time for…
Ave Maria University Sues Obama Administration Over Contraception Rule
Ave Maria University — the much-troubled, uber-Catholic institution near Naples — is suing the Obama administration over its rule requiring health plans to cover free contraception.”It is a sad day when an American citizen or organization has no choice but to sue its own government in order to exercise religious…
Otis Wallace, Mayor of Florida City, Investigated By FBI and Miami-Dade Public Corruption Unit
When Otis T. Wallace became mayor of dirt-poor Florida City back in 1984, the desegregation hero was one of the first black politicians elected in the entire state. Nearly 30 years later, however, Wallace is still in office but his leadership has lost its luster.A two-month investigation by the New…
Lavont Flanders Sentenced to Life In Prison For Making Rape Porn
Lavont Flanders will spend life in prison, a federal judge decided yesterday. The former Miami Beach cop was convicted in December of more than a dozen counts related to drugging and raping women on camera. The films were then sold around town as a porno series called “Miami’s Nastiest Nymphos.”Last…
Farmers’ market fiasco: Miami-Dade Health Department squanders $15 million
Farmers’ market fiasco: Miami-Dade Health Department squanders $15 million
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Miami-Dade’s Most Dangerous Intersections: Hooters, Highways, and Heavy Traffic
Miami is infamous for its bad drivers. Climbing behind the wheel is a contact sport here, like running through Little Havana with an “I (heart) Fidel Castro” T-shirt on.So, prompted by a reader complaint, we requested records on the county’s most dangerous intersections. It seems the chances of getting into…
LeBron James Immortalized in Giant Foam Sculpture, Dwyane Wade is Next
The Miami Heat’s “Big Three” just got even bigger. A Miami Beach entrepreneur has taken it upon himself to build 18-foot foam sculptures out of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh — complete with tattoos and “I’m-about-to-dunk-in-your-face” expressions. A monstrous LeBron is already complete.”We did this as Heat fans,…
Miami-Dade Health Squanders $15 Million From Feds Meant to Bring Farmers’ Markets to Town
Remember President Obama’s stimulus package? The $787 billion bill was supposed to goose this country’s ailing economy like a line of premium yeyo. Here in Miami, it was also booked to save us from our slovenly, speed-eating selves. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the Miami-Dade County Health…
“Occupy Tha Hood”: Occupy Miami Takes Over Overtown Apt. Building UPDATED (Video)
On Tuesday, January 31, hundreds of cops forcibly shut down Occupy Miami’s tent city at Government Center, ending nearly four months of protests.But instead of heading home, dozens of protesters mysteriously migrated to a half-empty apartment building in Overtown. Apparently with the permission of the building’s owner — an enigmatic…
Vanessa Brito Submits Petition for County Commissioner Term Limits
Lost in the din of Mitt Romney’s guttural Mormon victory cry and Newt Gingrich’s helium-like baby whine — we’re not sure what Santorum sounds like — was the fact that there was actually an important election last week.Voters rejected a county charter amendment that would had slapped commissioners with term…
Carlos Miller Arrested For Photographing Police Crack-Down on Occupy Miami UPDATED
Local journalist Carlos Miller has a blog called Photography is Not a Crime. Apparently Miami-Dade police officers are not avid readers.County cops arrested Miller on Tuesday night as he was filming the Fuzz forcibly evacuating Occupy Miami protesters from Government Center downtown. But he says the police are the ones…
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Planned Parenthood Raises Cash From South Floridians Enraged at Komen UPDATED
The Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood has set off a firestorm of debate across the country. Some Komen chapters have rebelled and several top Komen executives have already resigned in protest. So it’s no surprise that in Miami — where we don’t even have…
Boucher Brothers enrages SoBe surfers with no-bid board-renting contract
Boucher Brothers enrages SoBe surfers with no-bid board-renting contract
Mitt Romney’s Victorious Hair Helmet and Five Other Things We’ll Miss About the GOP Primary
Mitt Romney won yesterday’s Florida GOP primary, but we all know who the real victor was. Not Obama. And certainly not the country. No, el gran ganador was Willard’s perfectly sculpted mop of Mittitude: his hair.Here are five other things we’ll miss now that the political spotlight has shifted away…
Boucher Bros. Expands Beach Monopoly With No-Bid Contract for Surf and Paddleboarding
In early January, Miami Beach lifeguards suddenly began ordering surfers, paddleboarders, and kitesurfers to ditch their local haunts and move south of Third Street. City officials had supposedly just rediscovered an obscure 1964 law banning the sports from guarded beaches.But while the media focused on the surf scuffle, another battle…
Matheson Hammock Park’s Proposed Boat Warehouse Has Gables Residents Enraged UPDATED
Marc Buoniconti is a hero here in Miami. His father, Nick Buoniconti, played on the legendary ’72 team that went 17-0. After Marc’s own career was cut short in 1985 when he was paralyzed while playing football for The Citadel, he and his father raised $350 million to start the…
Angela Castillo Says South Miami Hospital Fired Her For Grieving Her Dead Brother
There are bosses, and then there are bad bosses. Orlando Valdez would seem to fall into the second category, at least according to Angela Castillo. When Castillo, a South Miami Hospital CAT scan technician, found out that her brother had unexpectedly died last month, she says she told Valdez that she…
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Deep Dredge Delayed: Port Officials Optimistic, Environmentalists Ready to Go the Distance
The Port of Miami’s much-debated “Deep Dredge” will be delayed for months — possibly years — as a Tallahassee judge hears arguments for and against the project this August.Port officials tell Riptide that they are optimistic the project will still be completed on time. But a lawyer representing environmentalists says…
Miami Dade College Bookstore Unfairly Stifling Competition, Says Student Entrepreneur
Buy cheap, sell high. The motto is more capitalistic than Mitt Romney’s hair. Miami Dade College student Mike Rozinsky knows it all too well. Last year the sophomore business major started his own company buying fellow MDC students’ used text books and selling them online. He made enough to pay…
Newt Gingrich Calls for New Cold War With Cuba, Ron Paul Says One Was Enough
The 3 a.m. phone call has struck again. In tonight’s GOP primary debate, NBC anchor Bryan Williams asked the candidates what they would do if told that Fidel Castro had finally died and “half a million Cubans” were on their way to the United States. Mitt Romney’s hair mumbled something…
Luis Posada Carriles Could Be Extradited to Panama for Allegedly Plotting to Kill Fidel
Former CIA agent Luis Posada Carriles may have beaten charges in Texas last year, but the aging anti-communist operative ain’t in the clear just yet.A Panamanian lawyer requested his extradition today on charges that he plotted to kill then-Cuban president Fidel Castro while in Panama back in 2000.Carriles was controversially…