Russell Calls for Sarnoff to Withdraw Officially as Confusing Runoff Looms

Yesterday, Teresa Sarnoff ended a runoff with city commission opponent Ken Russell in the most dramatic way possible, by abruptly dropping a letter withdrawing from the race and blasting the dirty politics she says have dominated local elections. But is the race actually over? Russell certainly doesn’t think so. His…

Florida Republican Warns Sea-Level Rise Is “Speculation or Personal Opinion”

Sea level rise shouldn’t be a controversial subject in a state subcommittee tasked with talking about Everglades restoration and water management. That’s exactly why two state representatives from South Florida began asking a Tallahassee bureaucrat earlier this week about climate change’s impact on the state’s projects. But this is Florida,…

Jeb Bush Tanking Down to Single Digits in Latest Florida Poll

How bad can Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign get? The one-time frontrunner has spent this week trotting out a hashtag as custom-made for Internet mockery as “Hotline Bling” and putting all his hopes in a new book about how awesome he was at email in the early ’00s. Voters have just about…

Marco Rubio Killed Jeb Bush’s Presidential Dreams Last Night

Jeb Bush helped created Marco Rubio. He cheered him through his early victories in tiny West Miami. He even gave him a damned golden sword on the floor of the Florida House while blessing him as a “great conservative warrior.”  And last night in front of a national TV audience,…

Al Golden Is Gone, but UM Probably on the Hook for Millions

Saturday’s University of Miami loss to Clemson was costly. The 58-0 annihilation cost fans another season of false hope. It cost players their remaining shreds of dignity. And in the long run, it’s probably going to cost the University of Miami many millions of dollars. To loud cheers from pundits,…

No, David Beckham’s New Stadium Won’t Revitalize Little Havana

If there’s one place in America where the “build a stadium and the money will come” lie shouldn’t fly, it’s Miami. We’ve already suffered third degree burns from that tale tale. It’s exactly what politicians promised would happen in Little Havana as they crafted the worst deal in history to build…

Miami College Football Player Shot and Killed at Florida ZombiCon

Hundreds of zombies ran screaming through downtown Fort Myers late on Saturday night, fleeing in terror as gunshots rang out in the night. When police forced their way through the panicked costumed crowd, they found six attendees at that night’s packed “ZombiCon” bleeding in the street. One may, wearing a…

Belen Grads Petition School to Recognize Alumni’s Gay Marriages

Richard Rodriguez’s heart thumped as walked into his ten-year high school reunion at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, the famed all-boys academy in Pinecrest that boasts graduates from Fidel Castro to Perez Hilton. But the Cuban-American with short-cropped black hair and a wide smile wasn’t worried about how his job or physique…

Two Taxi Passengers Wounded in Miami Beach Drive-By Shooting

A red BWM convertible with the top down rolled alongside a yellow taxi cab on Pine Tree Drive early this morning, past the million-dollar Miami Beach mansions and the gnarled old trees that give the road its name.  Suddenly, gunfire raked the side of the taxi as the convertible squealed…

Philip Levine, Challengers Batter Each Other Over Senior Housing Towers

Rebecca Towers are a relic of another South Beach: A senior housing complex in the heart of multi-million waterfront condos. That’s also made the towers a regular target for conspiracy theorists on the beach for a simple reason: The land the government-run subsidized housing sits on is worth millions amidst…

Open-Carry Gun Laws Could Be Coming to Florida

Between Stand Your Ground and the weekly insane crime news, Florida is about as close to the Wild West as it gets in today’s America. So it’s genuinely a surprise that the Sunshine State is somehow one of six states that still prohibit the public from carrying around weapons in…