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Miami’s “Prince of Darkness” Attempts Hostile Takeover of Historic Preservation Group

By Jessica LipscombJune 20, 2018

In recent years, the Miami Design Preservation League has become one of the loudest voices against harmful development across the county. It has battled gentrification in Little Havana, the trend of McMansions replacing historic homes, and a plan to turn the Miami Beach Community Church courtyard into a retail store. In many cases, the scrappy nonprofit has challenged the county’s biggest developers and lobbyists.

Scott Gave Tax Deal to Company Running Miami’s Child-Migrant Center After Fraud Settlement

By Jerry IannelliJune 19, 2018

In Homestead, a federal compound housing as many as 1,000 migrant children is managed in part by a federal contractor based in Cape Canaveral called Comprehensive Health Services, which has held a contract at the Homestead camp since February 2018. Sen. Bill Nelson says 94 children at Comprehensive Health’s facility have been taken from their parents by U.S. immigration agents.

Sen. Bill Nelson to Tour Homestead Compound Housing 1,000 Migrant Children

By Jerry IannelliJune 19, 2018

After New Times yesterday broke the news that President Trump’s Office of Refugee Resettlement had quietly reopened a heavily guarded compound outside Miami and placed an estimated 1,000 children there, reporters descended. Security guards at the facility first threatened a New Times journalist with arrest and later did the same to reporters for the Miami Herald and WPLG, who stuck around to photograph the site near Homestead Air Reserve Base.

Rapper XXXTentacion Shot Dead in Broward County

By Jerry Iannelli and OthersJune 18, 2018

XXXTentacion, a sensational rapper whose skyrocketing career was rocked by criminal charges of domestic abuse, was shot dead in Deerfield Beach this afternoon. TMZ first reported the shooting, which was later confirmed by the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Witnesses on the scene posted graphic images of the rapper motionless in the driver’s seat of a BMW. BSO pronounced him dead around 5:40 p.m.

Feds Holding 1,000 Migrant Children at Miami-Area Compound, Lawmaker Says

By Jerry Iannelli and OthersJune 18, 2018

Roughly 1,000 migrant children are being held inside a secured compound in Homestead, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said today. It’s unclear whether the children crossed the border on their own or whether they were taken from their parents under President Trump’s new policy, which the United Nations says violates international law and which Catholic leaders have decried as “evil.”

Maybe Jarvis Landry Is Right: Ryan Tannehill Is the Dolphins’ Problem

By Ryan YousefiJune 15, 2018

Jarvis Landry has had a lot to say about the Miami Dolphins since he signed this offseason with the Cleveland Browns for an eye-popping $75.5 million over five years, and none of it has been good. The former Pro Bowl receiver is obviously unhappy the Fins decided he wasn’t worth nearly what the market ended up netting him, and he’s making sure he leaves massive fireballs of exploding cars and demolished buildings in his wake.

Court Debts Trap Homeless People in Miami Beach, Committee Finds

By Jessica LipscombJune 15, 2018

Two years ago, Miami Beach real-estate agent and homeless advocate Valerie Navarrete began interviewing local homeless people to get a sense of how they had ended up on the streets. Her videos brought much-needed humanity to former teachers, veterans, and construction workers who had lost their homes after devastating life events such as layoffs, deaths in their families, or health problems.

Miamians Need to Earn Nearly $50,000 to Afford a Two-Bedroom Apartment

By Jerry IannelliJune 15, 2018

Living in a home with more than one room shouldn’t really be considered a luxury in 21st-century America. The richest nation on the planet certainly has the resources to make sure single working parents or janitors on 12-hour shifts aren’t forced to live in hovels. Yet here we are: The nonprofit National Low-Income Housing Coalition released a report yesterday titled “Out of Reach,”…

Curbelo’s “Pro-Dreamer” Bill Cuts Legal Immigration, Funds Border Wall

By Jerry IannelliJune 14, 2018

Carlos Curbelo, the allegedly moderate Republican U.S. representative who represents South Miami-Dade and the Florida Keys, is staking his reelection effort on passing a bill protecting “Dreamers,” a class of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Curbelo’s 26th congressional district is a Democrat-heavy swing area that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and the congressman seems terrified he might lose his seat this November.

Trump Sued for Using Charity Money to Buy $10K Self-Portrait at Trump Doral

By Jerry IannelliJune 14, 2018

Thanks to the incredible work of the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold, Americans learned in September 2016 — two months before the presidential election — that Donald Trump’s web of personal charities seemed about as legitimate as vending machine companies run by the Genovese crime family. Fahrenthold won a Pulitzer Prize for doggedly tracking how Trump, among other things, used a quarter-million dollars from his charity to settle lawsuits involving his for-profit corporations.