Early this morning, Miami awoke to the sound of firecrackers popping, car horns blaring, and pots and pans clanging in Little Havana: “¡Fidel Castro,” they shouted in the street, “está muerto!” It’s an odd feeling in a metropolis where thousands of Cuban exilios have waited for nearly five decades for an end to the reign…
Paulo Berejuk’s deep voice cracks over the phone from southern Brazil. He now lives in Santa Catarina, which boasts hundreds of miles of white-sand beaches crowned with lushly jungled hillsides. But to Berejuk, it feels like a prison, worse than the federal pen in North Carolina where he finished an…
A new nationwide movement, promoted by firebrand columnist Shaun King, launched this week with the aim of punishing businesses with leaders who gave money to white-nationalist-enabling President-Elect Donald Trump. King’s campaign, called the DJT Resistance, has focused on the biggest Trump givers, such as New Balance, Yuengling, and Herbalife.
It takes a special kind of tenacity to go from educational consultant to popsicle innovator to tech guru. But that’s just how Felecia Hatcher was raised. “I opened a popsicle business, and my brother is a standup comedian,” Hatcher says with a laugh. “Our parents have always supported us totally…
The Florida Democratic Party hasn’t won a governor’s race in Florida since 1994 but in recent years has been totally unwilling to invent a new strategy to change that streak. For the past four elections, like clockwork, the party has nominated a milquetoast Tampa-area centrist. And for the past four cycles, they’ve all lost.
There are a hell of a lot of Democrats in Florida. In fact, more of them are registered here than Republicans. Obama won the state twice. And the blue party has demographics on its side thanks to a growing, left-leaning Hispanic population.
Florida sure looks like it’s on the verge of legalizing medical marijuana. Poll after poll shows Amendment 2 riding well above the 60 percent threshold needed to pass. And although casino magnate and Trump BFF Sheldon Adelson has dropped $1.5 million to defeat the measure, that’s way less than he…
We get it. This election has been harder to watch than the new Independence Day. It’s been more stressful than the build-up to Hurricane Matthew. And it’s all been even worse as a journalist. GOP rallies have turned into group anger management sessions directed at ink-stained scribes, actual facts…
Scott Melker lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr.
When unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was gunned down by wannabe cop George Zimmerman in 2012, protests erupted across the nation. Many demonstrators wore hoodies to push back against suggestions that Martin’s clothing choice had made him “suspicious.” The entire Miami Heat team, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, even took part.
After months of savage campaigning, untold hours of blowhards screaming at one another on television, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising, Florida’s vital 29 Electoral College votes are poised on a knife’s edge. The fate of the presidential election could well hinge on a few thousand votes in the…
Jose Fernandez had cocaine and high levels of alcohol in his blood when he likely piloted his boat into a rock jetty just off Miami Beach last month, killing himself and two passengers. That’s the finding of the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner in a report just released to the press.
For years, Jeffrey Loria has laid claim to title of most loathed public figure in Miami thanks to his toxic combination of repeatedly suing diehard Marlins fans while also gutting the team and robbing taxpayers of billions of dollars. Plus he lets his jerk son-in-law run the franchise.
In 1985, Marco Rubio spent part of his early summer living in a small house facing a tepid canal just north of Bird Road in West Kendall. Cages full of squawking macaws filled the acre yard. And a major drug ring stored kilos of cocaine in a spare bedroom…
Ever since the Zika outbreak hit Miami, the Centers for Disease Control has warned of “hot zones” where the virus has definitively been spread locally. Shaded alarmingly red on maps, the first zone in Wynwood was followed by another in South Beach and, last week, an area in Little River…
Aaron Davidson was once a brilliant American soccer exec, the man who co-founded the North American Soccer League, the Miami FC and the reborn Fort Lauderdale Strikers. But behind the scenes, prosecutors say, he was also profiting handsomely — and illegally — from the beautiful game, in the form of…
The white Volkswagen SUV was mired in traffic around 1 p.m. yesterday at a busy Miami Gardens intersection when Miami-Dade Police caught up with it. The driver had stolen the ride from a nearby dealership earlier that day. As bystanders filmed from their cars, police swarmed the SUV, busting open…
Lauryn Hill has had an interesting relationship with Miami audiences in recent years. In 2010, she put the year’s single best concert at the University of Miami’s homecoming; the next year, her Jazz at the Gardens’ set was marred by technical problems and a shaky performance, but she immediately followed…
When two University of Miami professors decided in 2009 to write a book about the role of conspiracy theories in American politics, they figured the esoteric topic was worthy of more mainstream academic research. At the time, wild accusations about who really planned 9/11 and killed Princess Diana were blooming…
Conservative Twitter is abuzz this afternoon with a trending hashtag: #BlacksForTrump. The spark is clear: Thousands have retweeted photos from Trump’s rally in Lakeland, Florida this afternoon showing a small group directly behind the Donald enthusiastically waving “Blacks For Trump” signs. “Blacks are for Trump and the left can’t…
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton joined Al Gore at Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus to give a serious, policy-heavy speech on her plans to tackle climate change and other environmental issues. It was one of the wonkier moments in her campaign and a breath of science-heavy fresh air from all the mudslinging…
Two years ago, Florida voters just barely missed a 60 percent threshold to legalize medical marijuana in the state. That’s not going to happen this November — at least, not if a new poll on the measure from North Florida University is even close to accurate. UNF’s survey, released this…
