If you steal anything worth $300 or more in Florida, that counts as a felony. That is, to be blunt, an absurdly low number in 2019: It’s the second-lowest felony theft threshold in America (behind New Jersey), and Florida has not updated that number since 1987. Adjusted for inflation, $300…
OK, we’re just gonna put it to you straight: Getting a medical marijuana card in Florida isn’t exactly the quickest or most affordable process. In all, it can take several weeks and run you $200 to $300 in initial fees before your ID card arrives in the…
A bizarre scene played out recently on Key West’s premier strip, Duval Street. Outside of Orogold — a store that hawks alleged age-defying cosmetic products — a line of protesters waved signs reading “RIP OFF SHOP.” Meanwhile, the store’s co-owner, Zohar Alon, stood his ground with a sign of his own,…
Former governor, now-senator, and future Demon-King Paimon does not like democracy. Sure, he says he does: He’s been talking tough for years about the transgressions of various “dictators” in Latin America — but at the same time, he sure seems to hate the concept of democracy in his own home…
At least one Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee in the “Miami field area” — which includes Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands — is on a hunger strike to protest detainment, ICE officials have confirmed to New Times. The exact location is unclear. The ICE spokespeople declined to say where the person is located or how he or she wound up in custody.
This morning, Craig Forman, CEO of McClatchy Company, emailed all staff to say about 10 percent of the newspaper chain’s employees would be offered voluntary buyouts. All of the details were not immediately available, though a meeting was called for 2 p.m. today at the Miami Herald — the chain’s most significant newspaper — to offer details…
Over the months the Sun-Sentinel has been digging into the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, representatives for the Broward County School District have stonewalled the paper’s public records requests, ridiculed one of its reporters as “smelly” and “skanky,” and tried to have two more of its…
Though last year seemed all-time low for football in Miami, the city is one of the best places to be a football fan, according to a new study. We’re skeptical, but we’re also listening. I guess you could say we’re skeptically listening. The study — done by WalletHub…
Senator and flesh-hungry Nordic draugr Rick Scott has spent a lot of time lately attacking Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. He is, in Scott’s estimation, a “dictator.” Scott’s tough talk, though, would be a lot less hypocritical if Florida’s newly minted U.S. senator weren’t also begging President Donald Trump to do some very dictator-like things of his own.
Shortly after photojournalist Greg Kahn left his newspaper job in 2012 to become a freelancer, he traveled to Cuba for the first time to begin working on a project about the island’s changing economy. The country had recently begun to allow citizens to buy and sell property, and Kahn was curious about what that would mean for the people who lived there.
Vice President Mike Pence is coming to Miami today to show his support for Juan Guaidó, leader of the opposition in Venezuela, whom many, including President Donald Trump, would like to lead the embattled South American country.
On a Wednesday night in early January, about 20 officers wearing tactical vests and carrying assault rifles raided a family’s home in Sweetwater. The police were looking for James Castro, a 40-year-old registered sex offender accused of slamming his car into a cop during a drug sting earlier that day. But Castro wasn’t at home; instead, only his mother, two younger brothers, and pregnant girlfriend were there.
Sen. Marco Rubio’s career has improbably rebounded since Donald Trump humiliated him during the 2016 election season. It didn’t seem to matter that Rubio used an LGBTQ mass murder as an excuse to break his own promise and run for Senate again. Now Trump has basically deputized Rubio to serve as what some politicians are calling “virtual secretary of state for Latin America”…
In May 2018, a Miami woman named Marlene Garcia filed state paperwork to create Peacock Consultants, Inc. Since then, the company hasn’t produced any sort of website or presence on social media. Garcia did not respond to a message sent on social media, so it’s difficult to determine the firm’s area of expertise.
After two years of saving up for a vacation, Delaware resident Rick Rettinger and his wife purchased a $3,000 Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas. On January 6, the couple boarded the ship out of Cape Liberty, New Jersey, and headed for their first stop in Puerto Rico.
It’s been a long time since the Miami Dolphins won a playoff game. A very, very, long time. So long. As the NFL season comes to a close this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. when the New England Patriots (sigh) and the Los Angeles Rams meet in Super Bowl LIII in…
It’s 2019 and Florida lawmakers still want to debate the existence of evolution and human-caused climate change. For that, you can thank longtime state senator and proud son of the Confederacy, Ocala’s Dennis Baxley, who recently teamed up with a fringe-right, virulently Islamophobic group to push yet another anti-science bill.
Last year, a group of progressive activists convinced the Florida Democratic Party to stop accepting campaign donations from private, for-profit prison companies. The industry, which makes billions by keeping other human beings behind bars, immorally incentivizes cities to needlessly lock people up, many activists agree. One of America’s two largest…
While Broward Supervisor of Elections employees counted ballots after this past November’s vote, an angry crowd gathered outside the door. The riled Republican protesters carried signs accusing those inside the Lauderhill office of stealing the election. They waved Trump flags and chanted against socialism and for draining the swamp. Most…
On a Saturday morning in November 2003, Dorsey Miller called his old friend Brenda Snipes and asked if he could drop by. Miller, an adviser to then-Gov. Jeb Bush, didn’t explain his motivations over the phone. He knew he’d have a better chance closing the deal in person. Expecting just…
You might as well go ahead and buy one of those fancy stainless-steel straws. Over the past year or so, cities across the nation have taken steps to limit plastic straws and stirrers out of concern for the environment. Now Fort Lauderdale and Coral Gables are joining them.
This time of year — with the playoffs quickly approaching and the games becoming more pressure-filled and meaningful — inevitably makes Miami Heat fans reflect on the chaotic historical greatness that was the Big Three era. That team, we can now say with certainty, was the most interesting in NBA history.
