In the age of Trump, a political march that doesn’t explicitly have anything to do with the Donald or with either Democrats or Republicans is a rare beast. But that’s exactly what Trish Sheldon says this Saturday’s March Against Monsanto is all about.
The GOP health-care bill, which is opposed by virtually every major health-care and hospital group in the nation and could leave 24 million Americans without insurance, snuck through the U.S. House by just four votes earlier this month. In other words, without the backing of two Miami legislators — Carlos Curbelo and Mario Diaz-Balart — it wouldn’t have passed.
Marlins Park remains the worst stadium deal in American history. Miamians are still on the hook for more than $2.4 billion in costs for a ballpark they didn’t want, all to benefit the most hated owner in professional sports. Taxpayers were so pissed that they recalled the Carlos Alvarez, the…
Here is a brief list of things Marco Rubio has no opinion about: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Russia ties, Donald Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban, climate change, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ lies about his contacts with Russian officials, and, now, Trump’s outrageous firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Since 2013, EDM fans have packed a stadium in Split, Croatia, yearly to dance to the likes of Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, and David Guetta, all under the familiar, glowing U-shaped icon of Miami’s Ultra Music Festival. But the European fest isn’t actually run by the promoters behind South Florida’s famous dance bash; they simply license the name to the Croatian party.
GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s surprise decision last month to retire wasn’t just a shock to the Miami voters who’d kept her in her seat for almost 20 years — it was also a godsend to national Democrats desperate to take back the House. But who to run? Florida Democrats aren’t…
Remember when 72 percent of Floridians voted to usher in a new era of open access to medical marijuana? That triumphant moment for medical weed was just in November, but for Florida patients this morning, it feels like a lifetime ago.
For now, the state’s headlong rush to allow more casinos in Miami-Dade looks to be dead in the water. But Miami Beach commissioners aren’t taking any chances when it comes to slot machines in SoBe. The commission voted this morning to push forward a zoning change that would ban all gambling establishments anywhere in the city.
Mention Bal Harbour to a random Miamian, and two things come to mind: an über-luxury shopping mall and one of the most notorious speed traps on A1A. Violent drug-related shootings would certainly not appear on that list.
Not many politicians are willing to get on a stage with Scientology leader David Miscavige and heap praise upon his organization. After all, Miscavige is at the center of a firestorm of abuse allegations, and his church has been accused of widespread human rights violations.
If there’s one issue Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado has staked his career on, it’s unwavering opposition to the human rights abuses in communist Cuba. The same goes for former GOP Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart. So it’s more than a little jarring that both Regalado and Diaz-Balart spent Saturday enthusiastically opening a Miami megacenter for Scientology,
Rapper Ja Rule promised concert-goers a uniquely luxurious experience at his new Fyre Festival. With tickets ranging from $1,200 to a super-VIP $250,000 package, music fans were promised “best in music, culture, art and food all while surrounded by one of the most beautiful and pristine settings in the world.”
Long before Wynwood became a mecca for selfie-snapping tourists, microbreweries, and international retailers, Chris Oh was there turning blank warehouse walls into art. Oh was a pioneer of Miami’s street mural scene. He started Culture Kings, an influential Design District boutique, and co-founded the Primary Projects art gallery. Oh died…
Florida’s gun control debates tend to go like this: NRA-backed GOP politicians propose rules to allow more guns in more places and to decrease accountability for how those guns are used.
Jeb Bush is a Wall Street-worshipping, vengeful political bully who cursed the world with Marco Rubio, birthed a comically failed charter school movement and comes from the most unbearable political family outside of Trump Tower. But compared to Jeffrey Loria, he’s basically a saint. So most Miamians won’t need to…
Miami is blessed with both a remarkably flat landscape and hundreds of days worth of tropical sunshine. In any logical universe, the Magic City would be a haven for both urban cyclists and solar power. Instead, the 305 is one of the more dangerous biking cities in America and has…
Up in Tallahassee, state legislators are doing everything they can to undermine medical marijuana in Florida. Voters backed medical pot by more than 70 percent in November, and yet legislators responded by inviting the same guy who spent millions trying to defeat the measure to help the new rules. But…
Venezuela’s dire situation needs no embellishment: Millions are starving. There’s hardly any food, no gas, and little medicine. Toilet paper has been scarce for so long that Caracas’ airport bathrooms don’t even pretend they have any. The desperation has snowballed into massive protests against President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime, including yesterday’s “Mother of All Protests,” which brought out hundreds of thousands and left at least three dead.
This past Monday, Miami Police Lt. Javier Ortiz won a major court victory when he persuaded a judge to lift a temporary restraining order that had stripped him of his badge for nearly a month. But the very next night, he was yet again facing serious accusations before an official body.
In a three-day stretch last month, the following things happened on U.S. 1 between Miami and the Keys: Six people in three separate car accidents had to be airlifted to hospitals in one day; a head-on collision two days later left two women hospitalized, one in critical condition; and a rare American crocodile wandered onto the highway, causing a crash involving a Freightliner truck.
For the past month, Miami’s outspoken Fraternal Order of Police president, Javier Ortiz, has been relieved of duty with pay thanks to a restraining order a judge granted to a woman he’d doxxed on Facebook. Tomorrow he’ll rejoin the force after a judge lifted that order and returned his badge.
Donald Trump has been president for only 13 weeks (even if it feels like a brutal half-century in Twitter years), yet he’s already spent seven full weekends at Mar-a-Lago, his beachfront playground for the obscenely wealthy. That’s concerning for all kinds of reasons: the ethics of constantly pumping up a for-profit business run by his family, the security lapses in the sprawling mansion, the costs of protecting the president there.
