After analyzing criminal-justice data across Miami-Dade County from 2010 to 2015, the Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has confirmed something many Miamians of color already suspect: If you’re a black person, especially a black Hispanic, the Dade County criminal-justice system will treat you more harshly than if…
Twenty-two years ago, Florine Rosenfield and her husband made plans to be buried next to their close friends, the Schreibmans. The two couples went to Eternal Light Memorial Gardens on the western edge of Boynton Beach, where they purchased four spaces in the same plot. But at her husband’s funeral last July, Rosenfield noticed he wasn’t being buried in the space he’d purchased.
After a barista in Philadelphia called police on two black men waiting for a friend, Starbucks temporarily closed 8,000 stores to train its U.S. employees about how not to be horribly biased toward customers. The Seattle-based company said it would continue to introduce anti-bias initiatives and publicly released its May 29 training materials online for others to use.
A referendum on David Beckham’s proposed Major League Soccer stadium was approved today in the most Miami of ways: Three commissioners voted to move the plan forward after multiple weeks of abrupt public proposals, last-minute plan changes, accusations of lawbreaking and corruption, and a whole lot of general bloviating and confusion.
Marion Hammer, the National Rifle Association’s longtime lobbyist in Florida, basically runs a portion of the state Legislature. She quite literally writes huge portions of state gun laws and commands a cadre of followers whom she orders to vote against those who cross her. She is notorious in Florida political circles for calling lawmakers traitors to the Constitution.
Before David Beckham’s group abruptly ditched plans for a stadium in Overtown, one of the biggest roadblocks to that proposal was an ongoing lawsuit by a local activist who claimed the city broke the rules by agreeing to sell the group public land without bidding for other offers.
The Miami Dolphins are back. Well, sort of almost back. It’s that training-camp time of year again, a time when optimism and hype are as high as the South Florida sun is hot.
In 2014, two University of Miami Hurricanes football players — Alexander Figueroa and JaWand Blue, both 20 at the time — were arrested for allegedly raping a 17-year-old freshman who was intoxicated when the men admittedly assaulted her. The school immediately kicked Figueroa and Blue off the team and expelled them…
For years, anyone who hopped onto Miami’s Metromover paid a quarter per ride. But in 2002, voters approved a half-penny sales tax that made Metromover free. Ridership soared to 9 million annually in the early 2000s and then peaked again with a surge of new development downtown in recent years.
Maybe you think you can live just fine in the postapocalyptic future that Americans are creating by pumping carbon emissions into the air. You’re OK with the dead trees, the flooded city streets, the extinct alligators. You’ll be cool living life in your windowless bunker and traveling across town in a series of air-conditioned tunnels…
In December 2016, Janice Antoine was working as an aide to North Miami Councilman Philippe Bien-Aime when she was asked to take a ride with him to Doral, she says. Bien-Aime told her he needed to drop off a campaign check at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department.
Sonny and Rico. Gloria and Emilio. LeBron and Dwyane. South Florida has had some iconic pairs over the years, but none tops our OG local couple: Dade County and corruption. Everyone knows our swampy metropolis is the kind of place where business is done via cash-stuffed envelopes swapped in bathroom…
Like everyone watching last Thursday’s marathon at Miami City Hall, Commissioner Ken Russell was miffed that David Beckham’s group had released so few specifics about plans before asking the city to hand over Melreese Golf Course for a massive soccer stadium and retail development.
South Florida activists used to joke that locals couldn’t be bothered to protest anything — the weather is either too hot, too rainy, or too darn nice for people to stand outside chanting for civil rights. But that’s changed. The Trump presidency has ignited a sustained groundswell of political action and anger, even in apathetic South Florida.
One day after his arrest for driving without a valid license, Moises Rojas showed up at the Miami Police Department’s headquarters to file a complaint. While the 32-year-old tiler was in custody, his mother said she got a call from an “Officer Rosa” who demanded $2,400 for his release. Emma Rojas met with the officer and handed over the money, but her son still wasn’t released. In the end, Moises Rojas’ girlfriend ended up having to bail him out.
Soccer star and professional attractive person David Beckham spent a small portion of Thursday’s carnival-esqe city commission meeting complaining that anonymous Miamians haven’t been smiling at him as often lately. Only one woman publicly flashed him on Thursday! Poor Becks. Many Miami residents are, rightfully, skeptical about Beckham’s latest proposal in…
A man with an apartment full of swastikas and Nazi memorabilia damn near blew up a Miami Beach condo building yesterday, according to Miami Beach Police, who say they arrived literally minutes before 72-year-old Walter Edward Stolper lit the Pavilion Residences at 5601 Collins Ave. on fire. Officers said they…
In the past three years, Miami-area police officers have arrested dozens of people — mostly homeless people — for sitting on a milk crate or possessing a shopping cart.
For almost two decades, Miami-Dade Homeless Trust Chairman Ron Book says his goal has been to ensure no family spends the night on the streets. But because the county’s homeless shelters are often full, as many as 50 families a night have been placed in hotels and motels as a short-term fix. In recent years, Book says the hotel tab has added up to “a large seven-figure sum of money” as families began staying for longer periods of time. Now, in an attempt to cut spending and get people into permanent housing more quickly, the majority of that funding is going away.
Though heroin-related deaths in Miami-Dade reached an all-time high in 2016 and South Florida continued to lead the nation in new HIV diagnoses, there’s some good news: Opioid deaths are decreasing, according to a study from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. One possible reason is the University of Miami’s syringe…
El Portal calls itself a modern-day Garden of Eden. The tiny village boasts a canopy of oak trees, a portion of the Little River frequented by manatees, and an official designation as a bird sanctuary. It’d be a fitting nickname, except for one thing: The rivers in Paradise probably weren’t…
For years, it seemed the Miami Marlins and Papa John’s were a perfect match — consuming both Papa John’s alleged pizza and Marlins’ alleged baseball for hours will leave you feeling exhausted, ashamed, regretful, deeply unsatisfied, and mysteriously sweaty all at once. ‘Twas a partnership forged in the deepest,…
