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Republicans Are Already Trying to Stop Felons From Voting
The best news for Democrats from the recent midterm elections was that Florida’s racist and ridiculously difficult road to voting rights restoration for felons was overturned — you know, the one that stopped one in five black voters from casting ballots. Now it looks as if Republicans don’t want to…
Miami’s Immigrant-Asylum Denials Hit 18-Year High in 2018, Data Shows
In both sad and entirely predictable news, immigration-asylum applications in Miami were denied at rates virtually unseen in two decades, according to data released today by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a group at Syracuse University. Immigration officials denied 86 percent of asylum applications…
Neymar Pledges to David Beckham That He Will One Day Play for Inter Miami
Neymar’s response to Beckham: “David, it’s done! I’ll come to Miami, your city, your team.”
South Beach’s Historic Coral Rock House Defaced With Swastikas
For over three decades, the coral rock house at 900 Collins Ave. was a medical office run by Edward Roth, one of the first Jewish doctors in Miami Beach. Over the weekend, drawings of swastikas were found on the home.
QAnon Believers Think the President Wants to Hire Broward’s QAnon Cop
Like all great conspiracy theorists, #QAnon believers hang on to their ideas whether or not there’s a shred of evidence. QAnon is the hilariously false theory that Donald Trump is secretly fighting a war within the government to arrest high-level Democratic pedophiles, and that a top Trump operative known as “Q”…
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The Five Worst Things That Have Happened to the Miami Heat Since LeBron Left
The Miami Heat, which collapsed in the third quarter during last night’s game against the Orlando Magic, is an unmitigated disaster.
Critics Slam Florida Senate President for Taking Cushy Job With Private-Prison Giant and ICE Contractor
A whole host of civil-rights advocates believe that the private, for-profit prison industry should not exist. But former Florida State Senate President Joe Negron appears to, ahem, lean in the opposite direction: Politico Florida first reported yesterday that the outgoing Negron will take a cushy gig as…
Miami Beach Starts Anti-Tourism Campaign to Keep Rowdy Spring Breakers Away
Each year, spring break brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to Miami Beach — but those tourism dollars come with a cost. Drunk bros throw punches, twerkers stop traffic for miles, and sometimes a random stampede breaks out.
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The Trump Administration Let Florida Make It Harder to Pay for Health Care
Florida currently ranks 45th of the 50 states when it comes to the number of residents living without health insurance. It’s 48th in health performance Now the Trump administration yesterday agreed to cut Medicaid benefits. The weird rationale: to see if that “helps” people sign up for Medicaid. The logic is…
Miami-Dade Schools Are Making Students Sign Anti-Vaping Pledges
Earlier this year, the Miami-Dade County School Board decided to consider installing sensors in school bathrooms to deal with what they called the epidemic of teens vaping on campus. The district is still researching that idea, but in the meantime has come up with a different solution: making kids sign…
Florida Keys’ Sheriff Sent U.S. Citizen to Miami to Be Deported, ACLU Says in Lawsuit
Peter Sean Brown was born in Philadelphia and is a U.S. citizen. But that fact apparently didn’t matter to Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay, whose deputies illegally held Brown in a jail overnight because they thought he should be deported to Jamaica, a country where he’s never lived…
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South Florida QAnon Cop Gets Demoted From SWAT Team
This past Friday, Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT member Matt Patten wore a QAnon conspiracy-theory patch while greeting Vice President Mike Pence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Today Patten was reprimanded and demoted from the SWAT team and BSO’s Office of Homeland Security.
Fort Lauderdale Takes on Purdue Pharma, Walgreens, CVS, McKesson, and Others Over Opioid Crisis
Fort Lauderdale joins about 250 other cities, counties, and states that have filed lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors for igniting the opioid crisis. Earlier this year, in April, Miami filed a civil lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and others in Miami-Dade County Court. Broward and Palm Beach Counties have sued as well.
Miami’s New Little Havana Flag Is a Hideous Nightmare
Little Havana is an amazing, interesting, beautiful place. Little Havana’s new flag, which debuted yesterday, is none of those things. The flag is hideous. It’s a flag that includes 22 other flags plus one rooster. If you’re staring at the monstrosity above and wondering, “Why does that look like a…
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Miami-Dade County Is Worst in the State at Solving Crime
Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement published midyear crime statistics that show Miami-Dade County is still the worst place in the state to be a victim of a crime. The data shows that in the first six month of 2018, Miami-Dade County has solved the fewest percent of reported crimes of any county in the state.
Kenny Stills Stole a Game-Winning Touchdown From a Defender to Save the Dolphins’ Season
There wasn’t much talk leading up to Sunday’s Dolphins-Buffalo Bills game. It was just another sleepy December matchup between two listless teams perpetually fighting to see who can finish runner-up to the New England Patriots in the AFC East. Nobody outside Buffalo and…
South Florida Cop Wore “QAnon” Conspiracy Patch With Mike Pence
Vice President Mike Pence arrived at Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just after noon on Friday. He was greeted by a Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT team that included one cop in a #QAnon conspiracy-theory patch. #QAnon is, of course, the batshit-insane, 4Chan-based conspiracy theory that claims Donald Trump is secretly fighting a…
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FPL Wins State Approval to Build New Natural-Gas Power Plant in South Florida
The United Nations recently told everyone on Earth to stop emitting carbon dioxide into the air by 2050. Despite this warning, Florida Power & Light (FPL), the largest energy company in the Sunshine State, is now all but definitely building a fracked-gas-burning power plant in Dania Beach. Today, Florida’s Siting Board, a panel consisting of Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet, unanimously approved FPL’s $888 million plan.
Opa-locka City Manager Says He Was Fired for Exposing Rampant Corruption
Newall Daughtrey says the city refused to collect millions of dollars in unpaid water bills from politicians and politically connected companies and instead opted to overcharge middle- and low-income residents.
Udonis Haslem Deserves the Same Goodbye Dwyane Wade Is Receiving
Every Heat game played this year is one less chance to witness the greatness of Dwyane Wade. As games disappear from the schedule like figures in Back To The Future photos, the reality still hasn’t fully set in that soon Wade will no longer perform that glorious shot fake…
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SEC Charges DJ Khaled With Lying About Cryptocurrency Deal
DJ Khaled is many things to many people. Musician. Record producer. DJ. Social media maven. Fashion icon. Business mogul. And now he can add “alleged cryptocurrency fraudster” to his resumé. Today the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the Miami hip-hop star paid $152,725 in penalties and settlements after it…