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,…
A certain subset of (let’s be honest: rich and bored) oceanside residents is currently fighting over whether the city should install a big, bright, and sorta dumb-looking LED “welcome” sign at the foot of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The sign is indeed stupid-looking and wholly unnecessary. But the squabble perfectly…
This past November, Florida Republicans, conservative TV pundits, and President Donald Trump fabricated claims of “election-rigging” by two Florida elections supervisors in two of the state’s most heavily Democratic counties. Now those same Republicans have attempted to fire both of those elections chiefs. The Florida Democratic Party has already blasted Gov. Rick DeSantis’ latest move as a “politically motivated power grab” and an attempt to “consolidate” control of elections across the state.
The Miami Police Department resembles a middle-school playground. Here’s proof. Two brothers who recently won the cop union’s elections, Tommy and Matt Reyes, seem to be suggesting someone tied to the election’s losers is now fabricating evidence to smear them. Yesterday, New Times broke news that MPD Chief Jorge Colina has ordered…
Over the years the question has been asked: What is Miami Heat culture? While the answer is debatable and multipronged, one player on the roster can pretty much sum it up — Dion Waiters. He’s both it, and the opposite of it. Waiters is proof of what…
The neon halos that adorn the necks of the palm trees at the Miami Beach entrance off the Julia Tuttle Causeway have been an iconic city fixture for more than 20 years. Since being updated with LED technology in 2007, the lights now change colors to commemorate special holidays or events held in Miami Beach.
Barbara DeLiberali and her family, thrilled to be trading the cold weather in Pennsylvania for a few days in the Bahamas, boarded the Norwegian Breakaway December 31, 2017. She and her husband, along with her daughter and son-in-law, had booked the cruise as a Christmas present and a surprise for her three young grandchildren.
Bal Harbour plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer says a lot of outlandish things. Salzhauer, who was known as “Dr. Schnoz” before his reality TV debut as “Dr. Miami,” has fought code enforcement officers in Bay Harbor Islands by declaring “sovereign immunity as a king.” He says there’s nothing wrong with sending…
The revolution is here. Knox Medical, one the state’s largest medical marijuana companies and the only one based here, opened its first local dispensary about two weeks ago at 175 NW 167th St. in North Miami Beach. The company plans five stores in Miami-Dade County, a Knox spokesman, Scott Klenet, said this…
