When Miami city officials decided to tear out grass along Brickell Avenue and replace it with artificial turf last fall, residents were not pleased. A days-long protest ensued, complete with “Save me! I will die soon” signs on trees the protesters said would be smothered by the fake sod. Now,…
Like most Soundcloud rappers, up-and-coming Treasure Coast hip-hop artist YNW Melly has a bunch of face tattoos. Curiously, the 19-year-old Melly had an artist ink the word “Sakchaser” on his forehead, just above his left eye. The tattoo honored a fallen friend: A member of Melly’s rap crew, YNW Sakchaser,…
Each March, thousands of young, drunk tourists descend on Miami Beach, slip into their neon-colored swimwear, and transform into spring breakers. With fake IDs in their beach bags and the complete discography of Pitbull blasting from their portable speakers, this species can be observed guzzling beer from funnels and twerking on police vehicles before passing out face-down in the sand.
Former Miami Gardens Police Sgt. Javier Romaguera’s reputation is so tarnished the U.S Attorney’s Office refuses to prosecute his cases. But he says he’s just a Good Samaritan who’s been wronged. You might remember Romaguera. He was fired last fall and subsequently sued after a woman said he kidnapped…
Twenty-seven months have passed since Floridians overwhelmingly voted for the right to access medical marijuana. But you wouldn’t know it by the way the previous administration obstructed access, slowed implementation, and denied the will of the people. Nearly 200,000 patients in Florida have used this medicine for relief from terminal…
Last week, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried — the only Democrat elected statewide in the 2018 midterms — shook up her 4,000-employee agency by appointing Holly Bell the state’s first-ever cannabis director. While Fried campaigned on a promise to increase medical marijuana access, both she and the new…
Since 1983, there has nearly always been a definitive sports star in Miami. No argument. We all knew who it was. In a matter of weeks, however, that time will be ending. Miami will be without a true sports star. This has us asking ourselves…
There’s a growing movement in America to defund and/or abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE was created in 2003 — many progressives within the Democratic party are currently debating whether we should dissolve the deportation agency, shift some of its least-harmful responsibilities to other agencies, and pare back America’s…
More than a year ago, a group of City of Miami Fire-Rescue employees got canned after committing what looks, on paper at least, to have been a racist attack on a black firefighter. In November 2017, six firefighters were terminated after they allegedly took their black colleague’s family photographs, drew…
The Florida Democrats are constantly in a shambles — but they’re even more of a mess than usual lately. Left-leaning voices within the party are furious at leader Terrie Rizzo and second-in-command Juan Peñalosa since Republicans flattened the Dems in statewide races during the 2018 midterm elections. After the losses, critics noted that…
In the five years since he was killed by Miami Beach Police while tagging an abandoned building, Israel “Reefa” Hernandez has returned to life in countless street tributes, a graphic novel, a skateboard line, and his own art. Now, the story of the 18-year-old, Colombia-born artist is headed to the…
Over the last year or so, money from the City of Miami’s Anti-Poverty Initiative has gone toward setting up college savings accounts for kindergarten students, helping low-income residents purchase vehicles to get to work, and funding the United Way’s Thanksgiving Drive. But Commissioner “Loco Joe” Carollo has his…
President Donald Trump has effectively deputized Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to lead the administration’s regime-change efforts in Venezuela. Despite the involvement of warmongering National Security Advisor John Bolton and genocide abetter Elliott Abrams, even most mainstream Democrats are praising Rubio’s push to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
CBS Corporation is making buyout offers to hundreds of employees in cities across the nation including Miami, New Times has learned. At least 20 highly paid longtime employees of WFOR, the CBS-owned-and-operated TV station in Doral, began receiving offers last week. Senior vice president and associate general counsel Adam Siegel confirmed the buyouts…
In theory, Florida’s Constitutional Revision Commission is a useful body: The group convenes every 20 years and considers amendments to the state constitution. But in practice, the CRC lately has been gamed by lawmakers. It’s bundled disparate concepts to produce absolutely weird results: an amendment put up for public vote…
Things aren’t exactly going too well for the Miami Heat on the court these days. The Heat is a middling team in the NBA’s Eastern Conference that’s fighting to stay on the right side of the eight-nine seed playoff lottery line. Few improvements are likely coming anytime soon, as the team is…
Earlier this year, the federal government announced it was closing a massive camp full of immigrant kids in Tornillo, Texas. Immigrant-rights activists say the camp was a humanitarian nightmare — most of the kids had been sent there after U.S. immigration officials ripped them from their parents in contravention of…
Sure, the National Enquirer of old might have been a ruthless publication that had mafia and CIA ties and occasionally “caught-and-killed” stories about famous people. But Paul David Pope, the son of Enquirer founder Generoso “Gene” Pope Jr., claims that the paper’s latest attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO (and Miami native)…
The topic of Ocean Drive has been a contentious one on Miami Beach for the past few years.
Just yesterday, alt-right hero and white-supremacist-adjacent Florida congressman Matt Gaetz tried to kick parents of Parkland shooting victims out of a federal gun-violence hearing. The video footage of the event, captured by CSPAN, is insane for a number of reasons: For one, Gaetz conducts himself like a petulant child. Moreover:…
With the Miami Heat battling it out for a higher playoff seed — while at the same time making money moves in trading Tyler Johnson to the Phoenix Suns to save cap room — there’s a question on the minds of all Miami Heat fans:
A group of female workers has been fighting for nearly two decades to force Walmart, America’s largest employer, to recognize what workers say is clearly a gender-based pay gap. In 2001, Betty Dukes spearheaded a class-action lawsuit alleging she and other women had been regularly passed up for raises and promotions…
