Forbes only exists anymore to create inane city rankings that have no practical use. Their latest in “America’s 10 Most Miserable” cities, which ranks cities based on “commute times, corruption, pro sports teams, Superfund sites, taxes (both income and sales), unemployment, violent crime and weather.” Miami is number nine: “Miami…
Never for the life of me have I ever understood why South Florida has its own Ice Hockey team. Of course, being a native Floridian I have never made much sense out of hockey in general. It is just not natural.I guess we have enough snow birds and ex-Northerners to…
You have Selena Roberts to thank for the A-Rod steroid scandal. The sports journalist broke the news for Sport Illustrated, but not after scouring all over Miami to get a quote from A-Rod himself. Five days before the story was published on SI.com, Roberts flew to Miami and engaged in…
After the exciting efforts of Howard Dean and Barack Obama, clueless politico types everywhere have come to the conclusion that anyone, literally anyone, can be elected to office using the mystical powers of the Internet. Sayfie Review has a column up about the 2010 Senate race saying exactly that. Republicans…
Unlike last year, when the Hurricanes got to play the Ponytown High School Flag Football Fightin’ Sad Clowns, or whatever that no-name team was, to kick of their season, next season they’ll start things off with their oldest rivals, FSU, in Tallahassee. As previously reported, we’ll also be playing three…
With all the hullaballo and hubbub over the giant tax-pit … um … new Marlins Stadium proposal, it’s easy to forget that the Fish are still a baseball team and the new season is almost upon us. It’s a shame, really. For true baseball fans, Spring Training is the best…
Wayne Scott, a pale man from South Yorkshire England, attempted his best American accent and called up a terminally ill teenage boy pretending to be rasslin’ superstar, UM alum and mediocre action/adventure actor Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. He claimed, as Johnson, he was put in touch with the boy through…
Floridians can only juggle the names of 4 or 5 state politicians in their heads at a time, and right now the only Democrat in the mix, Bill Nelson, is already in the Senate. So it’s not surprising that a new Strategic Vision poll shows Charlie Crist winning pretty much…
The University of Miami is not immune to the recession. President Shalala outlines a contingency plan for the next to years aimed at lowering spending. The school has had a hiring freeze in place since December, but Shalala promises no large layoffs. [Hurricane]The School Board approved a plan to cut…
What if the guy investigating bad cops broke the rules? Miami-Dade Police Maj. Donald Rifkin recently lost his job overseeing internal affairs probes into county cops accused of misconduct. Seems he was hitting on a fellow cop, Carmen Pichardo, using sensitive information about her ex as bait. According to the…
William “Bill” Perry III is the consummate insider. Once head of the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority and a county mayoral candidate, he has been at the center of a passel of questionable deals. In 2002, he received a last-minute $98,000 loan from the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust to stop foreclosure…
A few hours before the corporate Christmas party in December 2005, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office came to collect Cliff Berry II. They hauled him off on six felony counts, including fraud, racketeering, and grand theft. Another blow to the Yuletide cheer: The company itself, Cliff Berry Inc., would also…
Drive through Hialeah and you’ll see a billboard advertising reggaeton pioneer Daddy Yankee’s cologne, which launched a couple of months ago. It got us thinking: Miami might be ground zero for the celebrity fragrance industry. After all, nothing says image-conscious excess — our national specialty — like paying $49 for…
During the party-filled week before graduation, Jeffrey Johnson Jr. kept a cap and gown neatly folded in the trunk of his burnt-orange Chevy Monte Carlo. The 17-year-old scholar, set to receive summa cum laude honors in the Carol City Senior High School class of 2006, had worked hard for both…
It has been almost two years since New Times exposed a disturbing, state-mandated colony of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Since then, city commissioners have received dozens of angry letters, international news programs have aired footage, and the amount of banished men under the bridge has doubled…
BarackObama.com has the official “remarks as prepared for delivery” up from yesterday’s town hall meeting in Fort Myers. Suspiciously missing? “Every body needs to grab a hose and that is what Charlie Crist is doing here today.” It just ends with “…grab a hose!”Meaning, someone edited it out, or more likely President…
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has hit the newsstands, I repeat, the The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has hit the newsstands. Inside you’ll find a former Broward area high school valedictorian, and University of Miami law student Vanessa Rousso. She dropped out of UM, and became a bona-fide poker star, and now she…
Mickey Rourke has reportedly finally met his elective-surgery match, and it’s (swoon) Love. No, it’s not Joan Rivers, Amanda Lepore, or Jocelyn Wildenstein. Literally, it’s Love, Courtney Love. That’s Mickey on the right, and Courtney on the left, if you couldn’t tell. Let’s hope the two will go public soon…
When so many Americans have trouble seeing a doctor for the common cold, getting proper mental health care seems like a luxury. Unsurprisingly, many people who most need mental health help wind up in the corrections system. The Miami-Dade delegation in the state legislature recently invited Gov. Charlie Crist and…
Just by taking office, Barack Obama has already stimulated one segment of the economy: firearms. Much ink has been spilled about gun enthusiasts stocking up in anticipation of Democrats passing stricter gun control laws. So much so that Florida gun dealers are now expecting a shortage of bullets. The Orlando Sentinel story on…
If there are two prominent figures in South Florida’s small blogosphere, they are definitely former Stuck on the Palmetto, current South Florida Daily Blog blogger Rick, and Val Prieto and company at Babalu. And they couldn’t be more polar opposites: Rick is decisively liberal, while Babalu’s anti-Castro rhetoric keeps them on…
Mayor Alvarez’s state of the county address read like a high-priced wish list. [SFBJ]Charlie Crist + Barack Obama = BFF 4eva. [CBS4]John P. “Jack” Seiler is the new mayor of Fort Lauderdale. [CBS4]What is it with the children of former police chiefs? Rolando Bolaños Jr., son of former Hialeah Police…
