Miami’s Median Wage Is Staggeringly Low

A new push for higher minimum wages is sweeping across America, with New York City on the path toward joining Seattle and San Francisco with a $15 per hour standard. Last month, dozens of workers in Miami marched to demand that South Florida do the same.   But even among…

Severe Coastal Flooding in Florida Is Getting Worse, New Study Finds

Anyone who’s ever lived on South Beach knows the moment. Thunder booms, rain pounds down in solid sheets of water, and then it happens: The streets suddenly turn into rivers, sending cars and pedestrians bobbing in the massive buildup of precipitation. Floods are part of the contract that comes with…

Miami Developer to Give Gov. Rick Scott Environmentalist Award

By most expert accounts, Gov. Rick Scott’s tenure in Tallahassee has been a flat-out catastrophe for the Sunshine State’s already fragile environment. He slashed water management budgets and stacked regulatory board with developers. He battled tooth-and-nail against new clean water mandates. Even muttering the words “climate change” was banned in…

Raquel Regalado, Braman Ask Court to Throw Out Skyrise Miami Vote

Just over one year ago, Miami voters approved a ballot measure giving developer Jeffrey Berkowitz the go-ahead to build an oddly shaped, 1,000-foot bay-front tower called Skyrise Miami. The tower would lure hundreds of thousands of tourists, Berkowitz pledged, and even better, taxpayers wouldn’t foot a cent. City Mayor Tomas…

Carnival Plans Cruises to Cuba Starting Next Spring

As commerce and tourism to Cuba open up amidst President Obama’s big thaw of relations between the neighboring nations, Miami’s biggest cruise line is ready to get in on the action. Carnival announced this morning that — barring a red-tape holdup on the Cuban end of the deal — you’ll…

Florida Has Zero Elected Black Prosecutors; Nationwide, 95 Percent Are White

Post-Trayvon and Ferguson, the nation has turned its attention to gaping racial disparities in local police forces, which are often overwhelmingly white even though they patrol mostly black neighborhoods. It’s a serious problem. But there’s another group with far more power to influence criminal cases and the delivery of justice…

Jeb Bush Got Rich After He Left Tallahassee

Yesterday, Jeb Bush dropped more than a thousand pages worth of his personal tax returns on the web — 33 years worth of financial info in all. The document dump represents the most tax documents ever released by a presidential candidate. Reporters are still dredging through all that paper, but…