By most measures, Hillary Clinton seems to be locking up Florida. General polls show her leading by two or three percent in the Sunshine State, while a Friday survey found her destroying Trump by 30 points among the state’s key Latino voters. And all that data came before the GOP nominee…
Today, Tony Bosch is a free man. After spending a little more than a year and a half in federal custody for orchestrating the biggest illegal steroid operation in pro sports history, Bosch walked out of a Miami halfway house yesterday. So what’s next for the onetime chief of Biogenesis,…
This afternoon, Donald Trump is huddled up in a New York tower resisting a growing chorus urging him to drop out of the presidential race after a video emerged yesterday of the GOP nominee straight-up bragging about sexually assaulting women and getting away with it. Condemnation has been swift from…
Florida has officially dodged a 140 mile per hour bullet. Although the central coast is still being whipped with hurricane-force winds this morning, Matthew looks likely to avoid making landfall in the Sunshine State — just barely. The killer eye wall missed the coast by less than five miles in…
In less than 24 hours, still-growing Hurricane Matthew will slide along South Florida after tearing through Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas. If you’ve still been holding out last minute hope that the monster storm won’t unleash torrential rain and howling winds in our neck of the woods, it’s time to…
As Category 4 Hurricane Matthew’s eye passes over Les Cayes, Haiti this morning, the storm remains a churning behemoth. Winds topping 140 miles per hour have been reported in Haiti’s westernmost tip, while up to three feet of rain pours onto mountain villages in the nearby hillsides. Across the border…
Hurricane Matthew is already a monster, packing 130 mile per hour winds as of 5 am this morning as its howling center inches north toward Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba. Those islands are bracing for catastrophe, with storm surges up to 15 feet and 40 inch deluges of rain possible. The…
As protests swept through the NFL during Sept. 11th ceremonies, four Miami Dolphins players kneeled during the national anthem before last night’s game in Seattle to protest inequality and police brutality against African-Americans. Even more remarkably in a league where top officials have all but called for riot police to…
Just a few short months ago, only a few anti-mosquito wonks had ever heard of a pesticide called naled. But now, thanks to the onslaught of the Zika virus, the mosquito-killing compound has become the touchiest issue in Dade County since LeBron James’ defection back to his hometown. As activists…
As Zika has swept through Miami, residents have raged almost as much at Gov. Rick Scott as at the hated aedes aegypti mosquito. And with good reason. Scott slashed mosquito control budgets statewide then tried to blame Obama for the outbreak. And to top it off, his wife owned undisclosed…
Mike Fernandez has not been shy about his contempt for Donald Trump. The Miami health care billionaire took out full-page ads in December calling Trump a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. In July, the Cleveland Plain Dealer refused to print Fernandez’s latest ad, featuring a scorpion in a…
Venezuela’s long economic slide under Hugo Chavez and his successor, Nicolas Maduro, has lately turned into a terrifying free fall. Hunger is so widespread that whole families have survived on nothing but mangos this summer. The luckiest get by with just one meal a day. Thousands are expected to march across…
Statewide, Florida voters mostly did themselves proud yesterday. They rejected terminal blowhards Carlos Beruff, Dan Bongino and Alan Grayson, and backed a common sense solar power amendment. Our Jacksonville friends even booted longtime Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown, who is under indictment on corruption charges. So what exactly were Republicans in southwest…
Nick Barbella can pinpoint the exact moment he tumbled down Jeffrey Loria’s rabbit hole. It was late August, and Barbella was pleading with a Miami Marlins sales rep to be allowed to hand over around $4,900 for a season ticket package — and repeatedly being refused. “That’s when it hit…
Almost 11 years later, Wilma is still Miami’s last brush with hurricane destruction. Earlier this week, a tropical wave in the Caribbean briefly looked like it might break that amazing streak. But now, forecasters say Florida’s chances of a significant hit this weekend are nearly gone. The system, which never…
Few Miamians have seen the devastating effects of Colombia’s 52-year war with the FARC on a more human level than Philippe Houdard. For a decade now, Houdard’s nonprofit, Developing Minds Foundation, has worked with former child soldiers forced into brutal combat by FARC’s leaders. He’s seen the bullet wounds and…
Come October, it will be exactly 11 years since Hurricane Wilma tore across South Florida. Astoundingly, no hurricane has made landfall in the state since. That’s a statistical quirk that has to end soon. In fact, it might just end early next week. A tropical wave just east of the…
In Florida, Sean P. Jackson is about as rare as an August afternoon without a thunderous downpour: He’s a black Republican official who is proudly backing Donald Trump’s bid for the White House. But the head of the Black Republican Caucus of South Florida says Trump’s state campaign doesn’t seem…
Politicians have always found creative ways to deal with bubbling rumors that they’re up to no good. There’s the classic “I am not a crook!” finger wag on television, or the passive aggressive sprint through the hotel kitchen to avoid reporters with tough questions. Last night, North Miami Beach…
For seven years, John Timoney redefined policing in Miami. As chief of the Miami Police Department, his innovative approaches to police shootings and patrolling mass protests drew both international praise and condemnation, making him one of the most visible cops in the world during his heyday. Timoney died last night…
In two weeks, the University of Miami Hurricanes will kick off a new season inside a newly renovated stadium, which just underwent a $500 million facelift. Now that home field, most recently known by as New Miami Stadium but still called Dolphins Stadium by most, has a new name: Hard…
Back in 1993, a 17-year-old Alex Rodriguez hit .505 as a senior at Westminster High — the last time he played for a team in his hometown. A record signing bonus from the Seattle Mariners ensured that he never got an at-bat with the University of Miami, where he’d committed…
