Fraud investigators from Miami-Dade’s property appraiser are looking into claims that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart committed homestead-exemption fraud, an office spokesperson confirms to New Times. Eileen Hernandez, an agency spokesperson, says the appraiser’s Homestead-Exemption Fraud Office has received “numerous complaints” after local blogger and mortgage broker Grant Stern published documents he said show…
Kanye West’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office this past Thursday only made me feel sorry for the rapper. He sounded like he needs psychiatric help. During a rambling, ten-minute speech, West said that he could relate to Trump’s “male energy” and that the president is ”on a hero’s journey right now, and he might not have expected to have a crazy motherfucker like Kanye West.”
Nearly two years after Florida voters approved a referendum legalizing medical marijuana, dispensaries are still few and far between in the Sunshine State. Across Miami-Dade County, only five storefronts sell legal cannabis.
Leonard Pozner has lived through unimaginable pain. His son Noah was shot to death during the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, in which six adults and 20 children were murdered in Newtown, Connecticut. Then, after that incomprehensible tragedy, conspiracy theorists and gun-rights advocates have continued to harass him. Pozner is suing InfoWars’ Alex Jones for defamation after Jones repeatedly claimed Pozner was a fake “crisis actor.”
A 26-year-old Miami woman was out enjoying the long Labor Day weekend last year in Wynwood when her evening took a nightmarish turn. She’d had too much to drink when she and a friend stepped outside El Patio. When 51-year-old Uber driver Fredrick Gaston offered her a ride, she was…
Good news! Wages are finally rising in Miami-Dade County, a major metro area where the median income is a paltry $46,000, which is much lower than that of other cities of comparable size, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Whoops, we forgot to mention one thing, though: Miami-area housing prices are rising way faster than those wages.
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s alleged vendetta against one of his political opponents is headed to court. Bill Fuller and Martin Pinilla, co-owners of the Little Havana nightclub Ball & Chain, filed a lawsuit against Carollo today in federal court for what they say are obvious First Amendment violations…
In September, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission slapped Miami biotech billionaire Phillip Frost with a massive lawsuit accusing him of stock fraud. According to the SEC, Frost and his co-conspirators artificially inflated the price of stocks and then exited with millions, leaving other investors with virtually worthless shares. After the charges were announced in national media, stock prices for Frost’s company, Opko Health, plummeted.
Miami has a reputation for being the kind of city where it’s fine to fake it. But city officials’ decision to replace dozens of plots of real grass with artificial-turf-covered concrete is not going over well.
If you were on South Beach this past Monday afternoon, you might have noticed a yellow Corvette driving erratically down Fifth Street, darting onto a sidewalk near Flamingo Park, and then crashing into a fire hydrant near Fourth Street and Lenox Avenue — all while being chased by Miami Beach Police.
Since the day after the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, David “Cobra” Clemente has been a constant presence, standing guard when students arrive at 5:30 a.m. and when they leave around 2:40 p.m. In the beginning, he was surrounded by other red-beret-topped Guardian Angels who patrolled the school as volunteers — and won the affection of many worried parents and shaken students.
Even compared to other college conservative groups, Turning Point USA is a collection of some of the absolute worst pundits in America. Case in point: The group says it’s bringing American-Habsburg crown prince Donald Trump Jr. to a South Florida high school to speak at 6:30 tonight as part of TPUSA’s Campus Clash series, in which group leaders Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens appear at local schools and colleges to make libs mad or whatever it is they do.
The Miami Hurricanes’ instant-classic 28-27 comeback win over the Florida State Seminoles last weekend marked the midpoint of the team’s 2018-19 season. The now-15h-ranked Canes have reeled off five straight wins since their season-opening loss to LSU, putting themselves back within striking distance of their first playoff berth.
Rayan Rodriguez just wanted to play a few rounds of dominoes in Máximo Gómez Park — better known as Calle Ocho’s famous Domino Park — where tourists line up all day to snap photos of viejitos slapping tiles down on the park’s tables. But instead of snagging a table, Rodriguez…
Miami already has the highest percentage of seriously mentally ill citizens compared to any other city in America. Miami is also likely to see the largest rise in so-called deadly heat days due to climate change by the year 2100.
For the life of me, I’ll never understand the concept of fans getting into fights over sporting events, and let’s be honest, there are degrees of absurdity in this behavior. It’s one thing to start a brawl and risk assault charges over perceived disrespect of your professional team, standing up…
Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis’ 2011 tome, Dreams From Our Founding Fathers, is terrible. It’s a book-long screed from the then-Tea Party candidate, in which DeSantis screams at President Barack Obama for 286 pages, implies he is a closet Marxist, and at one point writes that Obama has “Muslim roots.”…
Flavio Musmanno lost his wallet August 28. He has lived in North Miami Beach on an expired visa since emigrating from Argentina in 2000, but he’d since married an American citizen and is in the process of applying for permanent residency.
Cooper Solomon had long dreamed of being a ballerina, but when the teacher came to lead him into the studio the first day of dance class, the normally boisterous boy was quiet. The 7-year-old with big brown eyes and a gap-toothed grin stood up from the leather couch where he’d…
Hurricane Michael continues strengthening this afternoon and could deliver strong winds and heavy rain to Miami by early Tuesday. By 2 p.m. Monday, the storm’s strength had reached 75 mph, and as it moves away from Cuba, it’s expected to strengthen all the way through Wednesday, when wind speeds might hit 120 mph, making Michael a strong Category 3.
A new United Nations report warns that much of the world will be screwed by the year 2040 unless we basically reduce carbon emissions to zero. And Miami will likely be destroyed by hurricane storm surge. Happy Monday! The latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is, honestly, the sort of thing that should force the world’s citizens out into the streets.
For those of you who were busy watching the Miami Dolphins win their first three games, we now rejoin your typical Dolphins season, already in progress. Sorry — all good things must come to an end. Vacation over. Don’t be angry it’s over; be happy it happened at all.
