Riptide’s crack meteorological team has just issued this update on Tropical Storm Isaac: 09:17:00 AM EST Due to favorable wind shear and hot ocean temps, by Monday TS Isaac is expected to rage with the devastating power of ten thousand nuclear bombs. It will personally find your house, smash each…
Between the cash-hungry strip clubs, the prime-time Rick Scott speech, and the 50,000-plus conservatives and 20,000 protestors squaring off, Tampa is already going to be one insane circus from hell next week. The only thing that could possibly make the Republican National Convention better would be a raging hurricane outside.Which…
Tampa’s strip club industry is preparing for a cash-making bonanza next week as tens of thousands of Republicans come to town to blather on about family values all day before hitting Ybor City at night to get hammered and ogle some T&A. But Tampa police are drawing a line in…
When Andre Frings returned to his South Beach apartment from a trip to New York last December, his jaw dropped at what had happened to the historic building next door. The 1926 art deco edifice was completely gutted, the graceful façade gone. Frings suspected the developer had broken the Beach’s…
In our nation’s capital, real consensus happens as often as a noncreepy Rick Scott grin. Yet for the past couple of years, everyone in Washington, D.C., has agreed on this: President Obama’s mammoth 2009 stimulus was kind of laughable. Green-energy initiatives? Saving America from financial ruin? Hah!Last week, though, that…
Also read “New Voting Laws Could Take Out Obama This Fall.”It’s becoming a regular morning routine for Floridians: Roll out of bed, sip a cafecito, open the paper to read about the latest bananas Rick Scott law getting tossed out by a federal court. This morning’s edition comes courtesy the…
Back in 2007, the feds indicted a Miami doctor for allegedly writing bogus prescriptions for hydrocodone and other addictive medicines shipped across the country through an online pharmacy. The case was more than solid; in fact, prosecutors gathered more than 400,000 pages of records to bolster their case.Turns out they…
The Florida Keys are a constant source of life lessons for the rest of the state. Last year, for instance, we learned not to get drunk while pushing your grandkid around in a stroller. More recently, the importance of giving someone known as the “Sea Hag” a beer when she…
Also read “Pit Bull Ban Spurs Dog Fight”Even if dozens of party primaries don’t get your blood pressure up, there’s one compelling ballot item that should drive you to the polls today: For the first time since 1989, Miamians have a chance to strike down one of the nation’s dumbest…
From the first moment Marco Rubio toppled Charlie Crist in a senate primary in 2010, pundits have declared him a golden boy destined for a run at the White House. Rubio’s spent the last two years positioning himself for a national campaign, and a couple days ago Republican voters picked…
Mitt Romney’s still mum on who he’ll pick as his VP to share the stage at this month’s Republican National Convention in Tampa, but conservative voters sure aren’t conflicted about who they’d choose. A new poll by CNN finds GOP-leaning voters want Marco Rubio as the veep by a wide margin.Of…
Until recently, Jeffrey Goldmacher was just another Republican running for local office, a bald, mustachioed fellow promising to “streamline government” and cut spending. Now, thanks to an attack flier mailed to voters in his Orlando-area district, Goldmacher has become a true pioneer: An openly nudist conservative.”At least there’s one candidate…
What the hell is going on in the Homestead Police Department? A couple months ago, three Homestead cops were charged by prosecutors after beating and macing people outside a nightclub — a series of assaults caught on surveillance video.Now, another HPD officer has been canned after investigators say he asked…
What’s the most despicable way you can imagine a hospital chain trying to make extra cash? Short of kidnapping people to harvest their organs, it might be performing loads of unnecessary heart surgeries, putting patients at serious risk of death. That’s exactly what HCA, the hospital chain founded by Gov…
Ladies: If you want to surprise your boyfriend by popping into their house topless, by all means, don’t let us stop you. There’s a proper procedure to pulling off such a surprise, however, and that’s to remove your upper garments in a hallway, on a front porch, or perhaps behind…
When police caught him amidst a petty crime spree in a casino parking lot yesterday, Obrian Oakley decided to run. As he peeled away from deputies in his Infiniti, what would have been a couple misdemeanor theft charges turned into two counts of first-degree murder against the 26-year-old from Miami…
In a case that’s likely to follow incumbent County Mayor Carlos Gimenez and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle right up to Election Day, a Hialeah boletera — or absentee ballot broker — has been arrested and charged with illegally collecting ballots. Critics have long charged that boleteras illegally swing elections…
We’d like to think that somewhere up in heaven, South American liberator Simon Bolivar is looking down at Hugo Chavez and thinking, “I really need to get a restraining order against this guy.”Chavez has spent the last week taking his Bolivar-stalking to new levels of creepiness. First, he unveiled a…
Marco Rubio has been studying the American tax code, and at last he’s discovered the scourge that’s been dragging down the U.S. economy. No, it’s not Obama’s higher taxes on the top-one percent, and it’s not Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.It’s Uncle Sam’s tax on Olympic medalists, who, yeah,…
Miami Beach Commissioners Still Aren’t Sure Why They Gave Axed Manager Jorge Gonzalez an Extra Payday
One suspect is dead and a Miami-Dade detective is recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning after an undercover raid on a suspected grow house on Coral Way erupted into a fierce gunfight last night.A narcotics unit that included FBI agents in plainclothes was investigating the house near 60th Avenue…
June’s Miami Beach commission meeting ended with what seemed like a heartfelt bit of humanity. Commissioners agreed to keep axed City Manager Jorge Gonzalez on the books for another nine months while he burned vacation days so his family could keep its health insurance.But this is Miami Beach, the most…
