Obama may not have done his reelection campaign any favors by pulling a Dan Carpenter-vs-the-Jets level chokejob in Wednesday’s debate. But it’s increasingly clear that, at least in Florida, the president has gotten a huge boost from his executive order in July halting deportations for some children of illegal immigrants.A…
North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre’s Bus Bench Blunder
Miami Marlins Keep Lying About Stadium
Flying can get awfully dull. Strapped into that tiny seat, crammed between a sweating offensive lineman in a business suit and a flu-infected grandma, don’t you ever crave some excitement, some freedom?Good news! American Airlines has just the package deal for you. Thanks to a manufacturers’ error, random rows of…
On September 20, former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner did the perp walk. His crime: allegedly accepting thousands in free campaign ads on bus benches from a company whose owner told prosecutors he had pressured them with promises to renew their contract.Rosner is in big trouble, with three felonies…
Ah, the perils of an intrepid TV reporter. Sometimes crazed interview subjects attack you. Sometimes horses poop on your head. And sometimes the wives of shady, fake Democrats at the center of an FBI investigation throw a whole pitcher of water in your face.OK, maybe that last part happens only in Miami…
If the Quinnipiac poll released last night is even close to accurate, Mitt Romney is in big trouble in Florida. The survey found Obama with a commanding nine point lead in the Sunshine State — a huge swing from the last Q-poll before the conventions, which found the two candidates…
Miami Beach Police Salaries Some of the Highest in the City
Murder-Suicide in the Florida Keys Unravels a Doctor’s Decades-Long Mystery
In May 2011, I wrote a short piece for Riptide about an 80-year-old Keys man who’d shot and killed his wife and his pet cat before ending his own life. I called it the “saddest story of the morning.” Like most of Glen Tucker’s neighbors and the local police, I assumed…
In 2010, a Miami New Times investigation revealed that more than half the cops in Miami Beach made six figures a year, and some racked up more than $200,000. What’s more, some of the highest-paid officers had some of the worst records.See also:- Miami Beach cops are paid up to…
The Miami Marlins first season in their taxpayer-funded Little Havana palacio has been nothing short of a catastrophe; the team was out of contention by August and so boring and terrible that the Franchise — the Showtime series chronicling the club’s season — ended early after star Hanley Ramirez got…
Anyone expecting Florida to swing for Obama after video leaked showing Mitt Romney heaping scorn on the “47 percent” — filmed at the home of a Boca millionaire, no less — obviously doesn’t know the Sunshine State. We live to make national elections exciting!A statewide poll released last night by…
During Myron Rosner’s tumultuous reign as mayor of North Miami Beach, he weathered accusations that he retaliated against a local blogger, broke ethics rules, bent city regulations to work on his house, and violated campaign finance laws. Now that he’s out of office, Rosner’s luck is up. Prosecutors charged him today…
Nary a single “crush the American oligarchy!” has been heard from Fidel Castro since June, when el jefe’s regular columns began devolving into the kind of bizarre, haiku-like rants found only in assisted living facility newsletters or Dadaist art collectives.But any fears that the Bearded One has gone senile are…
Forbes’ bean counters have compiled their latest list of the 400 most shameless oligarchs richest entrepreneurs in all the land, and South Florida keeps gleefully riding the money train. Twenty-four of the magazine’s wealthiest call the land of bath salts and condo busts home, and when they’re not hosting $50,000-per-plate…
New World School of the Arts Summer Camp Preferential Treatment
New World School of the Arts Accused of Giving Preferential Treatment to Students Who Pay for Summer Camp
Since it opened in 1987, downtown Miami’s elite New World School of the Arts has churned out generations of top local artists, from visual geniuses like Hernan Bas to Emmy-winning choreographers like Mia Michaels to playwrights like Tarell Alvin McCraney.For up-and-coming musical theater stars, the school’s über-competitive troupe, the Connection,…
Mitt Romney is still reeling today from the leaked video showing him hobnobbing wealthy donors with the worst kind of rich guy bashing on the lazy 47 percent. But who was Romney wining and dining with such a cringe-worthy speech?A South Florida millionaire playboy, of course! Turns out he was…
Remember the good ol’ days when the Florida Marlins played at Sun Life and the blinding sight of tens of thousands of empty orange seats mocked the athletes toiling inside the echoing, empty stadium?It was throwback day in Miami Gardens on Saturday, as Canes fans — still burned by a…
Obama has opened up leads outside the margin of error in Florida and two other swing states, Ohio and Virginia, at least according to a new poll from NBC News, the Wall Street Journal and Marist College. The survey of registered voters in the Sunshine State found Obama with 49…
Also read Florida Pastor Terry Jones’ Latest Stunt Tied To Attacks in Egypt and Libya, and Terry Jones Unapologetic After Libya ViolenceThe Middle Eastern violence sparked by an anti-Islam video spread, in part, by Koran-burning Gainesville pastor Terry Jones continued today in Egypt and spread to Yemen. In Sana’a, the…
