“The [City] Manager has informed me that the officer in question is in the process required by law and collective bargaining before an officer can be officially terminated,” Gilbert said in a written statement sent to New Times. “The behavior of which [Clarke] is accused, and the poor judgement which he has allegedly shown, is not consistent with the high standards to which we hold all City employees.”
Dead fish are washing ashore. Maggots are wriggling in piles of washed-up garbage. Wildlife rescuers are weeping as they encounter lifeless manatees and sea turtles. And most obvious, Florida’s waterways are clogged simultaneously with toxic green algae and toxic, choking, stinging red tide.
A few seconds after storming into a flea market parking lot with a handgun, firing that gun into the same car where her kid was sitting, and then grabbing her son and speeding away, the woman with bright green hair suddenly realizes she perhaps shouldn’t have let her friend film…
More than 30 years ago, the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association raised $86,000 to open a museum commemorating their failed, CIA-backed invasion of Cuba. Since then, the renovated house in Little Havana has hosted celebrities and presidents all the way up to Donald Trump, who stopped by the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library before the 2016 election to thank the vets (in stumbling Spanish) for their endorsement.
Florida Republicans are using an utterly debunked study to try to slam Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum’s support for a federal, Medicare-for-All-style health-care plan. And because the study has been thoroughly torn apart, it’s pretty fair to assume the GOP is lying to smear Gillum.
King-tide season is coming soon. That’s when huge swaths of Miami-Dade County flood on sunny days as the moon pulls South Florida’s already-rising oceans onto the land. But this year, toxic algae has brought stinking, poisonous, fish-killing red tide to town…
You might assume that after getting busted lying to ethics investigators and almost definitely violating city law by directing code employees to go after one of his political enemies, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo would lie low for a bit. But that is not the Carollo way. According to documents first obtained by blogger Al Crespo, Carollo is back to his old tricks — namely, stalking Ball & Chain, the bar co-owned by his political nemesis Bill Fuller. The commissioner was videotaped outside the Little Havana bar once again just two nights ago.
If cable news and Twitter are pissing you off more than normal lately, find some small comfort in the fact that there are only 34 days left for campaigns to spam you with unwanted emails, glossy postcards, and robocalls. Election Day 2018 is fast approaching, which means the deadline to register to vote is also looming.
After months of watching a wrenching natural catastrophe unfolding in slow motion across Florida’s Gulf Coast and hoping against hope it wouldn’t move to the Atlantic, Miami’s dreaded day has come at last: Red tide is here.
Kanye West has unlimited resources. He is one of the world’s most famous people. Yet he apparently has no better place to hunt for new political ideas than the Florida charter-school world, which sucks so hard that pop-rapper Pitbull is legally allowed to run his own school in Miami.
Just three days after 17 students and teachers were massacred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High this past February 14, a gun show was held at a Miami community center. Others followed even closer to the school. Naturally, many parents are outraged. In April, the City of Fort Lauderdale ended its regular gun show at the city’s War Memorial Auditorium…
There’s a New York Times best seller called The Book of Awesome written by Neil Pasricha that’s based on his award-winning website, 1000awesomethings.com. The concept of both the book and the site is simple: Pasricha writes every day about one awesome thing.
North Miami Beach, one of Miami-Dade County’s most corrupt municipalities, recently handed off its public sanitation services and water utility to private companies amid cries of graft and unfair bidding. The FBI even investigated the water deal at one point. But now the two companies that won those private contracts to take over the city’s waste and water — Waste Management and CH2M Hill Engineering…
At a Tuesday-night rally in Mississippi, President Donald Trump mocked Christine Blasey Ford for her inability to remember certain parts of an attempted sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The crowd clapped and cheered at the president’s remarks about Ford’s memory. But research from a Florida International University professor shows that, overwhelmingly, survivors of childhood and adolescent sexual abuse can accurately recall memories of those traumatic events years later — even if they can’t remember details surrounding the incidents.
Lately, business has been good for luxury hotels in Miami. Revenues rose 4 percent in 2017, according to Forbes. But one Miami-area luxury resort hasn’t seen that same revenue jump, and it’s not exactly hard to guess why. According to a major report today from Forbes, hotel revenues at the Trump National Doral, arguably the Donald’s golf flagship…
Clarke has been investigated by MGPD’s internal affairs unit twice for having inappropriate relationships with women while on duty. The first complaint against him in 2016 was sustained and resulted in a five-day suspension, though that didn’t stop him from becoming a finalist for the 2017 Dade County “Officer of the Year” award this past May.
Only about 3,000 people live in Biscayne Park. Yet despite the village’s small size, for years city documents bragged about how its cops were making hundreds of arrests and thousands of traffic stops every year. In 2011, Raimundo Atesiano was named 2011 “Officer of the Year” after making 2,236 traffic stops and 305 arrests…
As he turns the corner of SW 113th Place in Richmond Heights, Chuck Berriman hits the brake pedal of his red Toyota pickup and looks over his shoulder toward the place where his youngest brother died. “That’s it right there,” he says, pointing toward a dilapidated beige townhouse with an…
When the controversial Netflix documentary Hot Girls Wanted premiered in 2015, some sex workers were upset about the film and argued it was a needlessly negative take on the porn industry. Some porn performers said the that film was demeaning to actors who consensually have sex on camera and that the movie, produced by Rashida Jones, cherry-picked negative stories from porn stars to make the industry look worse than it really is.
The U.S. government says Pedro Luis Martin Olivares is an international drug trafficker who exploited his position in the Venezuelan government to move narcotics through his country. According to U.S. officials, he “facilitated the movement of cocaine,” “accepted bribes from drug traffickers,” “bribed other Venezuelan officials,” and “worked closely with other…
Lauderhill residents Frandy Cardichon and Juvenia Mackensie began planning a Haitian Flag Day celebration a full year before the holiday. In May 2017, they submitted a permit application to the city; coordinated with vendors, businesses, and bands; and began advertising and promoting the event.
In the past, Ron DeSantis has appeared at events organized by virulently anti-Muslim activists and associated with white supremacists. His wife recently attended a fundraiser with an Obama birther. At this point, it seems like a safe bet to assume everyone DeSantis or his campaign associates with in public is some kind of a right-wing extremist.
