It’s still kind of unclear to me how many soccer fans in Miami want a local team, but for those that do it’s been a bad few weeks. First Miami’s MLS bid was withdrawn, and then came rumors that our ULS-1 team may leave town. Well, finally there’s some good…
Their eyes were watching eyes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Miami International Airport noticed that the glass eyes on a shipment of teddy bears from China were poorly secured, and could be a choking hazard to small children. They sent the bears off for further testing, and indeed they were…
This week poll magicians were out in full force collectively interrupting Americans’ family dinners with long surveys. Both CBS and the Daily Kos have interesting polls out where we learn surprising things (Hillary Clinton has better approval ratings than Michelle Obama) and not so surprising things (Southerners love everything I hate,…
A federal jury this week convicted two doctors and two assistants of bilking Medicare for millions of dollars by setting up a bogus HIV clinic in Miami, the State Attorney’s office tells Riptide, the latest conviction in a racket that’s quickly become the Magic City’s seamiest new claim to crooked…
By now we all know what Alex Rodriguez was doing on the morning of February 5. He was working out at the University of Miami like he always does. A pre-spring training ritual that on any other morning would have been hardly worth noting, but this was the morning when intrepid…
LocalThe race-based deal for the Marlins Stadium has crumbled before our eyes. [SFLTimes]USA Today notices that San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis or Cleveland may soon be without a daily newspaper. This is sad because then they’ll have to read USA Today. There’s always the fine Village Voice Media products in three…
Recession blues are so not pretty, and increasingly, consumers have been cutting back on life’s little luxuries. That definitely includes spa visits and appointments for facials, massages, and manicures. Well, here’s a treat for frugal fashionistas and budgeting beauties who want to stack paper and still look fabulous. Spa…
We’ve found the predicament of Midtown Miami to be quite interesting for a while now: noting its trouble both here on Riptide and in print. Now the Grey lady is weighing in on the development’s slump in a piece that just went online: “The bankruptcies of Circuit City and Linen…
The Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau has been following a proposed porn tax with quite some fervor lately, but the State Legislators can’t seem to talk about the proposal with a straight face. Republican Sen. Carey Baker said he’d heard someone throw out the idea of an extra tax on porn, and…
I counted three Venezuelan girls in bikini’s that made me want to defect on the next plane to Caracas.
Oh look, a vaguely local angle to bring to this whole AIG bonuses brouhaha. Meet Gerry Pasciucco. He was a vice chairman at Morgan Stanley. Now he heads up AIG Financial Products, the high flying, irresponsible segment of AIG that brought the entire company to it’s very knees. Though, Pasciucco…
Marlene Jaggernauth had been a legal U.S. resident for 27 years when the ICE agents came knocking on her door in 2003. They arrested the Trinidad native on a shoplifting charge from six years earlier, took her from her four young children, and moved her from county jail to county…
Ronald Reagan, our Nation’s greatest alliteratively named President to serve in the second half of the 20th century, did not like to spend a lot of money on public education. As Governor of California he opposed increases to basic education programs pretty much every chance he got while reducing local…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day. The one day a year where all the sudden it seems that everyone in Miami is Cuban-Irish. Actually, according to Biz Journals, Miami ranks 44th out of 46 in Irish ancestry. Just under 4% of South Floridians identify as Irish. Though, the Irish make up the…
NBC 6’s finally ditched its outdated website, and has a fancy new website like all of its other NBC O&O brethren. Meet NBCMiami.com. Lead by former Miami.com editor Jessica Sick, the site also features the byline of former Herald writers (Todd Wright), an ex-New Times staff writer (Tristam Korten), and…
LocalWhoops, cutting a deal with the black community sounded look a smooth move for Marlins Stadium supporters, but turns out it is unconstitutional. [Herald]The suitcase trial ended with a four year prison sentence for a Venezuelan businessman. [BBC]Here is a story about Puppies …that die. It is a horrible thing…
Judging by the moose-shootin’ hockey mom on the presidential ticket this past fall, political strategists have discovered a little secret: Women outnumber men in this country. And that shows up at the polls.It’s for this reason that Florida Senator Bill Nelson might want a re-do when it comes to a…
Or so went the chants in the first round of the World Baseball Classic, when Venezuela played in Toronto. With Dolphins Stadium’s proximity to Westin-zuela, the atmosphere at tonight’s Puerto Rico-Venezuela match-up should be even more rife with entertaining political sing-song. Game starts at 8pm, and the outfield seats are…
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is moving to an online only format. A fate that more and more are whispering could soon meet The Miami Herald. The P-I’s transformation will be a bellwether as to whether or not a daily newspaper could successfully go online only. The New York Times indicates that…
Florida’s University Chancellor Mark Rosenberg resigned last fall, and returned to FIU where he previously served as provost. John Delaney, President of the University of North Florida is serving in the interim, but the hunt is on for the full time replacement. Rosenberg’s tenure was marked with strife with the legislature…
In just five minute self-anointed football deity Bryce Brown will emerge from his weekend long fast and finally, hopefully announce which school he’s going to play ball at. Schools in the running for Brown’s highly coveted services include Kansas State, Louisiana State, Oregon, Tennessee, and your University of Miami. Though…
Last time we checked in with The Herald’s new right-leaning columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa she had caused a minor brouhaha in the blogosphere with her weird inaugural column and the appropriation of a silly monologue from Bull Durham. Now the former editor of The Daily Business Review is four columns…
