Integrated Asset Services released their latest IAS360 House Price Index, and as you might expect, the news isn’t good. Between January of this year and January 2008 housing prices have dropped a total of 28.4% in South Florida. That’s 29.1% in Broward, 18.8% in Palm Beach, and a whopping 32.3%…
LocalOnly now does someone realize that the economic situation might impact the Marlins ballpark? [Herald]The FCAT begins today for all those poor school children. [CBS4]PoliticalFranklin Sands, the Democratic leader in the state House, is a quiet little whisper of a man. [Herald]Dan Gelber racks up another service day. [PoHo]Oh, no…
Public buses that don’t stop when we run to try to catch them always struck us as a unavoidable fact of life. Jeffrey Bradley, a sometime blogger for Miami Beach’s Alliance for Reliable Transit, haughtily disagrees with that concept. We were copied on an e-mail Bradley sent to Miami-Dade Transit…
A Cutler Bay man funneled money to the Irish terrorists who murdered two British soldiers in Belfast on Saturday, federal prosecutors say in a complaint unsealed in Miami-Dade court today and obtained by Riptide.For at least three years, Roman Vidal, 57, allegedly smuggled millions of dollars in black market cigarettes…
When will we ever hear good news of any significance again? Not like “yes, my favorite band is coming to town” good news, or “Oh, I heard your cousin just got the cutest lil’ puppy” good news, but like “human civilization has been brought back from the brink of destruction”…
By wide majorities, Americans love stem cell research. According to Gallup numbers 64% find it morally acceptable, and 52% support easing the restrictions or having none at all. Today, your president Barack Obama repealed his predecessor’s strict limits on stem cell research, which created a bunch of bureaucratic, red-tape hassles for scientists (I thought the red…
Frederica Wilson and her extensive hat collection have pretty much done everything they can in Tallahassee. The Miami democrat has served in both houses of the State legislature, and now she’s made it official that she’ll be seeking the congressional seat Rep. Kendrick Meek is leaving behind in his quest for…
Editor’s Note: The following is not a poem, not quite a rap. But feel free to sing along.Muffin top real fatmy pockets so slim – How the hell am I supposed to get a workout in?You wont catch me huffin and puffin down the street,and my kids laugh when i…
Like its sister past-times of golf, polo, and hedge fund fraud, tennis has always been rank with the stink of exclusivity. But while it is usually played by guys named Nigel who tie their sweaters around their chests, once you take it out of the country club, tennis can be…
If you happen to wander by the Capitol on your daily stroll around Tallahassee today, yes, that is in fact a truck full of farm workers being beaten into unpaid slave labor right on the steps of the Florida Legislature.A few months after the latest slavery bust in Immokalee –…
News5 people were shot outside a Miami Gardens night club, but it seems all will recover. [UPI]Is there anything left to cut? McClatchy, The Herald’s parent company, plans to eliminate another 1600 jobs company wide. That’s 15% of its remaining work force. [Bloomberg]All these recent cases of Medicare fraud are…
Miami Beach cops got the call just after lunchtime this past January 26. A woman reported the following: Two thin, unfamiliar men were lurking in her neighborhood between a yellow $1.1 million waterfront house and an abandoned tan bungalow. They were carrying furniture from the houses to their pickup truck…
When one thinks NASCAR, one doesn’t necessarily think “class,” but you’d expect a little bit of tact from one of the sports bigwigs. Bruton Smith is an octogenarian billionaire who made his money in promoting race, and he’s sick of seeing the final race of the NASCAR season run in…
Remember Andy “Obama Half-Breed Muslin” Lacasse? Of course not, it was over 9000 news cycles ago. The poor redneck from some hell in Central Florida put a misspelled, sharpie sign in his front yard. Well another idiot in Fort Walton Beach, Larry Ford, has a misspelled anti-Obama sign, though it’s…
Kendrick Meek has one thing no one else in the 2010 Senate fray have – a big fan in former President Bill Clinton. After appearing at a fundraiser for Meek in late January, Clinton made his second pitch for Meek this morning in Jacksonville. With another close ally in Nancy…
Perhaps Wednesday you picked up your New Times and saw that the “The SunPost is Setting.” Then on Thursday, if you could find it, you picked up your SunPost to learn that indeed “The SunPost is Rising…” Which is it? Well, suns always set before they rise. Co-Publisher Kim Stark…
LocalVice President Biden tried to butter up reps from the biggest union in all the land, AFL-CIO, so they’d support the stimulus bill during a meeting in Miami Beach yesterday. [AP]He also announced $8.4 billion from the stimulus package will benefit transportation, and called the Miami Intermodal Center “the wave…
In these tough economic times, Miamians find themselves cutting new corners to make ends meet. As unemployed 39-year old Hialeah resident Ricardo Caonwahi tells us, that can sometimes mean making a meal out of a pony. Yes, a miniature horse.Caonwahi is being charged with three misdemeanors- creating a sanitary nuisance,…
On one hand we have a certain disdain for Arthur Kade’s type, the self-styled playboys with finance jobs. On the other hand, we realize they play an important part in our local economy — just one of their frequent trips to South Beach can pump thousands into the local economy…
In hindsight, it’s tough to argue that Larry Coker didn’t get a little bit screwed. He got canned as University of Miami head coach in 2006 after piling up a 60-15 record and bringing a national championship to Coral Gables — a record pretty much any other program in the…
Nothing is immune to the economic crisis, not even the palm tree’d oasis in Coral Gables known as the University of Miami. After many alumnus expressed their concern, president Donna Shalala sent out a letter to all alum today addressing the impact on UM. Here’s the highlights: UM has made…
Rush Limbaugh and Alex Rodriguez both have their past drug struggles with pain killers and steroids respectively, they also both have multi-million dollar pads in South Florida. That is where the comparisons end to the untrained eye. But Robert Zimmerman, a volunteer for the DNC and a PR czar, says…
