Some Republicans Actually Want Rick Scott to Run for President

Gov. Rick Scott just spent four years as one of America’s most deeply unpopular elected officials. Thanks to his days running a firm that earned the largest fine in U.S. history for Medicare fraud, he has skeletons in his closet that would make Hannibal Lecter flinch. He had to blow…

Miami Beach Tops Nation in LGBT Equality Report, Hialeah Not So Much

It was a historic day for equal rights in Miami-Dade yesterday, as the county commission moved one step closer to adding transgendered residents to anti-discrimination laws. But it’s the city across Biscayne Bay from County Hall that took home the area’s highest honors for LGBT equality in the latest national…

A-Rod to Feds: Yes, I Bought Steroids From Biogenesis

In January 2013, here’s how Alex Rodriguez reacted to a Miami New Times exposé that a Coral Gables clinic had been selling him steroids for years: “Alex Rodriguez was not Mr. Bosch’s patient,” he said in a statement, “he was never treated by him and he was never advised by…

Florida Bar Goes To Supreme Court To Fight $100 Fee To Help Poor People

For the hundreds of thousands toiling low-income jobs in South Florida, hiring an attorney is about as realistic as buying a Bentley. But that doesn’t mean poor Miamians don’t end up in sticky legal situations. In fact, between employers refusing to hand over wages and predatory lenders foreclosing on houses,…

Feds Are Watching Florida Polls For Voting Problems Next Week

Let’s be honest: Florida is to fair and well-run polling as Kanye West is to humble and modest self-image. We’re just not very good at it. You don’t even have to go back to the Dubya-crowning recount debacle for evidence of Sunshine State voting ineptitude. Just transport yourself back to…

Miami-Dade’s Sex Offender Law Challenged in Federal Court by ACLU

In 2007, Miami New Times first documented the unintended side effect of Miami-Dade County’s strict laws about where convicted sex offenders can live: Namely, that dozens of men were forced by law to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in squalid conditions. The men were eventually moved out amid national…

Polls: Florida Governor’s Race Locked in a Dead Heat

How tight can a governor’s race get? Tighter than Rick Scott’s terrifying debate smile? Tighter than Charlie Crist’s artificially orange skin? Yep, that’s how tight the race for the Florida governor’s mansion has gotten, according to a pair of new polls. The fresh Quinnipiac and Rasmussen polls both show the…