Florida wants medical marijuana. Days after the state legislature for the first time sent a bill to the governor’s desk legalizing some pot — namely, a low-THC strain used to help children with epilepsy — a new poll out this morning makes it crystal clear where voters stand on the…
Miami-Dade County is the NBA for corrupt politicians: With a deep talent pool, incredibly rich history, and always blossoming crop of new stars, it’s the top of the game for shady politicos. And David Rivera is the Derrick Rose of the league, a multitalented scandal machine who’s been sidelined the…
There’s no doubt that Major League Baseball’s Department of Investigations accomplished exactly what Commissioner Bud Selig sent it to South Florida to do. After Miami New Times revealed that a local clinic called Biogenesis was selling performance-enhancing drugs to a host of baseball stars, the investigators were tasked with collecting…
Soon, the undead will arise. Their flesh hanging from their rotten bones like rags, they’ll emerge from cemeteries and mortuaries, wandering aimlessly down Biscayne Boulevard in search of their only sustenance: Brains. Living human brains. Society will quickly devolve into an anarchic fight for survival as the government, military and…
This week, the first organized opposition to Florida’s looming vote on legalized marijuana has set up shop in Tampa, thanks to a six-figure donation from GOP power player Mel Sembler. To front his new anti-pot PAC, Sembler chose Carlton Turner, a former drug czar for President Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately for…
Florida is still a long way from legalized medical marijuana. The Sheriff’s Association is waging a fierce campaign against it. The governor has hinted he might not sign any new laws on it. The conservative House has yet to take up the issue. Yet history was made in the Florida…
For a decade, Dr. Jack Ramsay, alongside Eric Reid, was the voice of the Miami Heat on Sun Sports, booming out Lenard! And Slamma! after a Voshon Lenard three-pointer or slam, or hollering his trademark for Tim Hardaway: “This away, that away, Hardaway!” Of course, Ramsay was much more than…
New tape has leaked this morning to Deadspin of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling discussing his views on race, and the audio makes it clear that Sterling is about as enlightened on the topic as mouth-breathing Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. The key difference is that Sterling owns a major…
A jubilant email landed in the inboxes of Miami Heat season ticketholders yesterday signed by owner Mickey Arison and trumpeting an agreement with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez for a new ten-year deal to keep the team at the American Airlines Arena. “We thank Mayor Gimenez for his vision,” Arison crowed…
The Heat is steamrolling its way past the Bobcats behind two dominant games from LeBron James. And Miami Heat fans know exactly what that means: The LBJ haters are already coming out of the woodwork. Just take a look at the comments on Riptide’s post yesterday, which made the controversial…
Jeb Bush’s head must be pounding from all the pondering he’s doing these days. Yesterday, he told yet another GOP crowd that he hasn’t ruled out a bid for the White House, this time eliciting an ovation by announcing he’s “thinking about running for president.” He’s probably also doing a…
For Miami Beach commuters, the past year has been a migraine-inducing hellscape. While a project aimed at alleviating flooding has left Alton Road hacked to bits, the ongoing construction of the PortMiami tunnel has turned the MacArthur Causeway into a traffic-clogged nightmare (especially this morning, when a Ferrari going more…
Miami Dade College music professor Marc Magellan was heading into a Kendall campus parking garage last week when someone yelled out, “Professor Marc!” Next thing Magellan knew, he’d been punched in the face, knocked to the concrete, and brutally beaten until his nose shattered and his hand broke. The music…
If All Aboard Florida gets its way, Miamians will be able to hop on a train downtown as soon as next year and disembark in Orlando three hours later. The company, which owns a freight line that runs along Florida’s east coast, is banking on a $1.5 billion federal loan…
Around 6 p.m. last night, Gov. Rick Scott took off his jacket, perched onto an uncomfortable folding chair in an empty room and flipped open his Macbook to have a reasonable Facebook question-and-answer session with the fine folks in his state. But then somewhere around the 19th personal attack wedged…
In Cuba — where sudden shortages of everyday products are as commonplace as Fidel columns bashing the oligarchy — condoms have always been a reliable stand-in for everything from kids’ birthday balloons to bootleg beach balls. Even during the worst of times, the government kept dirt-cheap, Chinese-made rubbers on shelves…
Ever since he earned a midsummer promotion to the Dodgers last year, Cuban defector Yasiel Puig has been the most electrifying man in Major League Baseball — flying heedlessly into walls, smacking absurd home runs, and annoying columnists by showing up late to games and speeding in his sports car…
Gov. Rick Scott’s plan to randomly drug test every single state employee in Florida — from department heads to minimum wage DMV janitors — has already failed the common-sense test and an appeals court ruling. A trial run of the program found that almost no state employees were failing, while…
Until yesterday, Lt. Ralph Mata was the picture of an upstanding Miami-Dade cop. He was a top leader in Internal Affairs, spending his days going after corruption and abuse in the ranks. He’d earned exactly one mention in the Miami Herald in his career, for helping to lead a feel-good…
In his long municipal career, Pat Salerno has shown two consistent tendencies: bringing big-money, landscape-changing projects to fruition and rubbing other government officials the wrong way with his management style. Six years after that latter habit got him run out of Sunrise, Salerno abruptly resigned this morning as Coral Gables…
You’re high on meth, cruising around Fort Lauderdale with dilated pupils, a rocketing body temperature, and a pipe on your lap, when cops suddenly pull you over. What do you do? Well, if you’re Carlos Lopez, then the purchasing director for the City of Hialeah, you stuff that meth pipe…
Miami is looking ever more likely to be the gravitational center of the GOP battle for 2016’s Presidential race. Locally grown Sen. Marco Rubio has already promised to make a call within the next year about whether to toss his hat into the wide-open Republican field and now the man…
