Jeb Bush is a man of strong opinions, forged in the intellectual fire of pure reason. Pick any contentious topic of the day, and he’ll be happy to share his thoughts. Say, for instance, the Washington Redskins, a team whose name most Native Americans and a whole lot of other…
It hasn’t been the easiest year for the Miami Beach Police Department and its new chief, Dan Oates. Within a few weeks early this year, Oates had to confront video of an MBPD cop punching a handcuffed woman in the face and then a national scandal that erupted when several…
It’s fair to say the vast majority of Miami was not in the finest of moods today. It’s Monday morning, the Dolphins just finished shaming all of South Florida and to top it off, big pieces of the city are expected to flood today thanks to a combination of the…
See the pic above? It’s a not particularly flattering shot of Ranaan Katz, the real estate magnate and minority owner of the Miami Heat. Katz is not a big fan of the photo. In fact, he’s spent the past three years in court trying to force Google and a local…
Last year, word leaked that Faena House — the glittering new monument to opulent wealth in the heart of Miami Beach — had sold its penthouse, which had been listed at an insane $50 million. But the buyer and the final price weren’t disclosed and, like most observers, we predicted…
Two years ago last month, 18-year-old Israel “Reefa” Hernandez died after a Miami Beach Police officer who was chasing him away from a building he’d been tagging hit him in the chest with a Taser. Hernandez’s death sparked national outcry about the use of the devices, particularly after Miami-Dade’s Medical…
The black Harley blazed past two officers parked on the south tip of Key West just after 7 p.m. on Saturday, lighting up a radar gun at 74 mph as its engine gunned noisily through the 30 mph speed zone. When the officers pulled the bike up over, the rider…
By this time next year, you might just be getting your news fix by logging on to miaminewtimes.miami. OK, maybe not. But Miami has now become just the third U.S. city — after New York and Las Vegas — to snatch up it’s own top-level domain name. That means that…
Earlier this year, Hector Feliciano drove to Eneida Harter Elementary School to pick up his five-year-old son who’d gotten in trouble over a fight. As they pulled away, though, Feliciano heard a disturbing tale from the kid: A Miami cop at the school had pulled his ear and then handcuffed…
The only good news for Jeb Bush this morning is that the calendar still reads “September.” That means the Iowa caucuses are a healthy five months away. Which is important, because right now Jeb is seriously tanking among early state GOP voters. We’re talking Philadelphia 76ers looking for a number…
Tears silently stream down Maria Aguilar’s face as she listens to a vivid description of her daily torment. Sitting at a long wooden table inside an 11th-floor courtroom in Miami’s federal courthouse, the short woman with curly hair tied up in a bun holds hands with three other women while…
Between making billions with Amazon, experimenting with home drone delivery and buying a little publication called the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos also has been quietly pumping money into a secretive company aimed at blasting paying customers and scientists into space. Tomorrow, the Miami Palmetto Senior High School graduate is set…
For women working at the Moreno Farms packing plant in remote Hendry County, a coveted job working indoors in air conditioning sorting vegetables turned into a living nightmare. The two brothers who ran the place — Miami-raised Oscar and Omar Moreno — and their foreman, Javier Garcia, systemically harassed and…
A little ways up the Florida coast, a little-known company in Melbourne makes a device of great concern to civil liberties activists. Called the “Stingray,” it allows law enforcement officials to track the whereabouts of a specific cell phone — a useful investigative tool that advocates argue also violates privacy…
Just a couple weeks ago, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson was on the all-out offensive to back his controversial fundraising efforts. Wolfson even took out three full-page Miami Herald ads to attack journalists Michael Putney and Glenna Milberg over Putney’s criticisms of how the politician and his ally, Mayor Philip…
“Oh my god,” a woman intones, a shaky camera phone aimed at the sky. “There’s something that is releasing a whole bunch of light in the … Oh my god!” No, the footage isn’t the start of the latest insufferable “found footage” horror flick about an alien invasion. It’s just…
Miami Police Officer Luis Weinad was annoyed: The young cop he was in charge of training had just arrested a man for walking around with crack cocaine and a pipe and sent him off to jail. But instead of filling out an electronic arrest form — as per department policy…
Pelting rain has glued red-and-yellow-striped jerseys onto the soaked bodies of 6,000 fans scattered around Lockhart Stadium’s metal bleachers. The waterlogged pitch looks more like a World War I battle site than a soccer field, but the true believers in the stands chant and sing ecstatically. For the first time…
Right about now, thousands of especially grumpy Miamians are sitting in traffic wondering what the hell happened to the tropical storm that was supposed to get them out of work today. Erika was a dud, turning into nothing more than a wave of decent thunderstorms on Saturday and Sunday. If…
The streak is alive! After nearly a week of dire predictions about Tropical Storm Erika, it looks this morning like South Florida’s decade-long hurricane-free run is going to continue. Erika is actually no longer a tropical storm — overnight, it weakened into a depression. And this morning’s projections now call…
In these days of complex computer-graphed simulations and space-assisted data mining, hurricane prediction has steadily approached something like a real, reliable science. Usually, scientists can at least guess with some decent certainty what a hurricane is going to do in the next couple days, if not four or five days…
In just a few months, Donald Trump has already had more politically deadly moments than most candidates manage in a lifetime. Only a campaign that’s playing to the most intolerant, xenophobic wings of American society could survive everything from Trump’s crass John McCain insults to his misogynistic Megyn Kelly rants…
