Bad takes — they happen to the best of us. There is literally an entire Twitter account dedicated to getting a good chuckle at how wrong we all are when it comes to sports opinions. Sometimes, though, a take is so predictably bad, so outrageously hideous, that when said take inevitably fires backward we must, by Twitter law, gather together to point it out.
Immigration detainees are held on civil, not criminal, charges. Therefore, imprisoned immigrants have argued for years they cannot legally be forced to work like prisoners while held in civil detention. In December 2017, Raul Novoa — a Mexican man living in Los Angeles on a green card — sued the GEO Group, the private prison corporation based in Boca Raton. He alleges that detainees were forced to work for the company for as little as $1 per day and that the absurdly small wages were illegal for detainees who hadn’t been convicted of crimes.
Over the past three years, JPMorgan Chase has been the top financier of fossil fuels. The company has financed nearly $196 billion for fossil fuel producers since world leaders promised to cut carbon emissions in the Paris Agreement. The bank is the largest investor in Arctic oil and gas, ultradeep oil and gas, and liquefied natural gas and is a major player in fracking.
Despite attracting shady condo sales and sleazy politicians, the Miami metropolitan area is also fertile ground for startups. It’s so fertile, in fact, South Florida ranks among the top four places in the nation for new minority-owned businesses.
CBD might be the buzziest ingredient of 2019. Just about everyone is looking to cash in, from ice-cream parlors to yoga studios to multilevel marketing operations. But one Florida company apparently took the CBD trend a bit too far.
About a hundred years ago, Florida’s bonneted bats inhabited large hollows of mature pines and glided over the vast space of the Sunshine State’s 180,000 acres of pine rockland while feeding on insects.
For years, critics have warned that Miami-area cops continue to get into trouble while working security in bars and clubs in the Magic City’s already chaotic nightlife scene. But the public has not quite known how frequently off-duty officers find themselves in trouble until today.
Dolphins fans have to be asking themselves where this franchise went wrong. Not so much why the team is 0-7 this season — because it’s rather obvious that was the plan — but more so, how it’s come to this.
In September 2018, longtime WFOR-TV (CBS 4) anchor Michele Gillen sued her former employer in federal court for wrongful termination due to age and sex discrimination. Gillen, an Emmy Award-winning reporter in WFOR’s investigative unit, claimed her story ideas were routinely rejected and then given to younger reporters. And she said a co-worker — anchor and investigative reporter Jim DeFede — made disparaging remarks to her and about women in general.
Autumn rain flowed off Villa Paula’s rooftop balustrades, down the whitewashed columns, and across the colorful Cuban patio tiles. Two statues of Greek gods stood nearby, dripping amid pink bougainvilleas in the home’s garden.
With no remaining options, Lazaro Rodriguez could only beg Miami-Dade County Judge Andrew Hague for mercy. But his pleas were in vain. Hague was yelling at him now — in English, a language Rodriguez barely understood.
Lawmakers are scrambling to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape of the cannabis and hemp industries in Florida. As proponents of legalization lay the groundwork for a 2020 vote on adult use — more commonly known as recreational marijuana — officials are still trying to get a handle on the cannabis and hemp industries.
After receiving substantial blowback this morning, Miami Herald leadership backpedaled on a decision to exclude two of its journalists from an upcoming vote on whether to unionize employees in the Herald and El Nuevo Herald newsrooms.
When the Miami Dolphins face the Pittsburgh Steelers tonight, much airtime will likely be dedicated to the fact that the matchup marks be the first time Minkah Fitzpatrick, the Dolphins’ 2018 first-round pick, will face his former team since forcing a trade earlier this season.
In Miami’s fast-growing Venezuelan community, few things are worse than being known as an enchufado. It’s a scarlet letter worn by those believed to have enriched themselves through political connections to the regimes of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and the late Hugo Chávez.
Unsurprisingly, most public schools don’t teach children the full horrors — or even economic extent — of American slavery. That basic fact sparked the New York Times’ landmark “The 1619 Project” this year.
Snapchat apparently had a boner to pick with Dr. Michael Salzhauer, better known as Dr. Miami, a plastic surgeon who regularly broadcasts his procedures on the social media platform.
There is perhaps no better example of America’s two-tiered justice system than the national college-bribery scandal. While teens who get arrested for low-level drug charges often spend years behind bars and can’t get hired afterward, the wealthy actors, investors, and entrepreneurs caught up in the bribery case seem to be passing through the courts with slaps on their collective wrists.
State Sen. Joe Gruters — a man who wants to protect hate speech online and has a racist poster hanging in his government office — just can’t stop himself. After pushing through a ban on so-called sanctuary cities earlier this year, Gruters vowed to introduce even more anti-immigrant legislation during the upcoming legislative session. Now, the leader of Florida’s GOP wants to check the immigration status of every new employee in the state.
For the second time in one week, police were called to investigate a disturbance at a senior housing complex following a visit from Miami City Commission District 1 candidate Alex Diaz de la Portilla — this time over the alleged assault of an elderly woman.
Wednesday night, fans were introduced to the 2019-20 Miami Heat. There were T-shirt cannons, a pre-tip Justise Winslow speech, a new introduction video, and, uh, holy shit, like an entire roster of new-ish players who are apparently all going to win Rookie of the Year.
With three different petition drives hoping to bring recreational marijuana to Florida, legalization will most likely be on the 2020 ballot. To date, the frontrunning Make It Legal Florida initiative, backed by multistate cannabis companies that stand to gain billions, claims to have garnered more than 100,000 petition signatures since it began last month.
