In fall 2018, a 14-year-old girl fled Mexico after a violent group of men killed three of her uncles, broke into her home, and threatened her at gunpoint. She arrived in the United States November 6 and was briefly taken to what she called a “jail-like” holding facility in San Diego. Named “M.C.L.” in court filings…
One of the less reported aspects of the United States deportation system is its profitability. Private, for-profit companies and contractors are paid billions of dollars to carry out the Trump administration’s will. In short: People are getting rich by keeping immigrant kids behind bars.
Today the FBI raided the Fort Lauderdale home of Roger Stone, the openly racist Trump confidante who dresses like a penny-farthing bicycle salesman. Stone is charged with lying repeatedly to the FBI and threatening federal witnesses in the most obvious and stupid ways possible.
As soon as the news broke that Floridians had voted to end greyhound racing, local adoption groups were flooded with calls and applications from across the country. It seemed everyone wanted to bring home an ex-racer. But apparently forgotten in the panic over the fate of Florida’s thousands of…
As it stands, not every child who grows up in Florida gets access to the state’s full slate of college financial-aid packages. If you’re born in the United States, you qualify for everything, from the state’s Bright Futures scholarship programs to a whole host of other grants. But if you’re…
The Miami Dolphins have had a lot of interesting slogans over the years. “Feed The Wolf” is a personal favorite. Every year the Fins try to rally fans around a saying that fits the team’s purpose. It’s usually more to sell T-shirts than to…
The 24-page indictment of South Florida shyster Roger Stone could be the best thing to happen to Florida politics ever. Filed this morning after agents raided Stone’s home in Fort Lauderdale, it not only clearly lays out how the political provocateur whom New Times reporter Jerry Iannelli once wrote has…
The Trump administration’s family-separation and child-immigrant-detention policies have forced innocent children into horrid, inhumane conditions and, in some cases, have violated international law. But housing immigrant children has been extremely lucrative for the private contractors running detention facilities…
The worst tragedy during Donald Trump’s time as president likely already occurred: A spate of recent studies have shown that nearly 3,000 Americans died after the near-category-five Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017. The numbers suggest the Trump administration also likely suppressed or failed to adequately report the…
South Florida couple Mark Allen Bartlett and Dana Scalione celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019 this way: She screamed at a group of black teens. He then pulled a gun and repeatedly used the N-word. The kids, including an 11-year-old boy, briefly blocked Brickell Avenue while carrying signs demanding the City of Miami protect the affordable-housing complex Liberty Square…
In May 2018, the state of South Carolina passed a bill lawmakers said was aimed at fighting anti-Semitism in the state’s public school system. But many critics were instead alarmed: Rather than simply cracking down on speech critical of Jewish people, the bill instead banned criticism of the state…
What do you give the man who has it all? We’ve seen a few great ideas, and have a couple of our own.
President Trump’s government shutdown has hit South Florida in several visible ways. Bags of trash are piling up at Everglades National Park. Shipments of produce and flowers are being delayed because federal inspectors have been furloughed. An entire terminal at Miami International Airport was closed because there weren’t enough TSA workers to screen travelers.
Earlier this month, Israeli-born Hallandale Beach Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub called Rashida Tlaib, one of America’s first two Muslim congresswomen, a “Hamas-loving anti-Semite” who might someday “become a martyr and blow up Capitol Hill.” Lima-Taub was then widely condemned for her big mouth, even by the Anti-Defamation League. But the commissioner won’t back down…
After police arrested the man who appeared in a viral video brandishing a gun at children on bicycles blocking traffic on the Brickell Avenue Bridge on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some said the charges against him are insufficient. And a new video emerged showing even more hate. Last night,…
If you want an example of the painfully transactional and conflicted nature of U.S. congressional committee assignments, consider the case of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The new, Democrat-controlled House of Representatives was sworn in at the beginning of the month and leaders began handing out committee appointments. Wasserman Schultz, who represents…
Dr. Lord Lee-Benner has seen the dark side of the Sunshine State: its schizophrenics, neurotics, addicts, depressives, illiterate bipolars, disturbed teens, even psychotic ex-ministers. Many of the indigent patients who come to see him at Community Health Center of West Palm Beach, a nonprofit clinic where he volunteers as a…
Video captured by a member of the Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, shows a woman screaming at some children who participated in the event on their bicycles. Then a man gets out of his car and, waving a gun, calls them “dumb-ass fucking “n*****s.”
Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub’s career seems to be dangling on thin ice right now, and for good reason. Earlier this month, she claimed online that Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, one of the first two Muslim women ever elected to U.S. Congress, was a “Hamas-loving anti-Semite” who might one…
The case is one of the biggest black eyes in the history of the Miami-Dade Police Department and State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle’s administration. In 2015, local cops, elected officials, and Rundle stood at a podium and declared then-15-year-old Deandre Charles had murdered Joseph Raksin, a prominent New York City rabbi. Rundle then revealed an utterly ridiculous witness-drawn sketch.
This past weekend, the Dwyane Wade “One Last Dance” tour stopped in familiar places for the Heat’s soon-to-be-retired three-time champion. While Wade has been honored in just about every city he’s visited this season, this past weekend was special. The guard checked off a couple of significant boxes. Stops in…
For the next two weeks, all you are going to hear about is the great storylines of the February 3 Super Bowl LIII at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta that pits the New England Patriots against the Los Angeles Rams. It’ll be young quarterback versus old, young coach versus old,…
