Miami Cops Keep Arresting Homeless People for Sitting on Crates
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.
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Homeless Trust Cuts Money to Put Families in Hotels, Will Move Them to Shelters Instead
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.
Despite Success, Florida’s Only Needle Exchange Still Faces Pushback
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…
Giant Piles of Floating Trash Are Clogging Little River in El Portal
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…
Miami Marlins Cut Ties With Papa John’s After N-Word Scandal
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,…
Miami Installs and Quickly Removes Confusing, Misspelled Anti-Jet Ski Signs
Yanina Corbea first noticed the new signs at Dinner Key Marina on Sunday, when she and her husband went to take their son for a ride on their Jet Skis. “NO JET SKI’S ALLOWED STRCTLY ENFORCED TOW AWAY ZONE,” the incorrectly spelled sign read. It wasn’t there last week,…
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The Five Kinds of Miami Dolphins Fans
Miami Dolphins fans are a proud bunch. Whether you’re a 10-year-old Fins fan who only knows Dan Marino from YouTube mixtapes or a 40-year-old lifer who vividly remembers when the Dolphins making the playoffs wasn’t weird, there’s plenty to feel good about as a Dolphins backer…
Miami-Dade Wants to Crack Down on Shared Bikes Left on Sidewalks and Roads UPDATED
Last year, seemingly overnight, hundreds of brightly colored bicycles from companies like Lime and Ofo began popping up everywhere in Miami. Or, as Miami-Dade County Commissioner Javier Souto puts it, the bikes began “descending upon neighborhoods,” like some kind of two-wheeled invasive species. He and other county officials are fed up…
Florida Is Suppressing Hundreds of Thousands of Potential Voters, Study Suggests
Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Florida by slightly more than 100,000 votes. At least according to the official recount numbers, George W. Bush beat Al Gore in Florida in 2000 by fewer than 600 votes. Had the constantly ineffectual Florida Democratic Party gotten its act together decades ago and…
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Beckham’s New Stadium Site Sits on Toxic Waste That Could Cost Millions to Move
Ever since David Beckham and his new partners, Jorge and Jose Mas, abruptly abandoned their Overtown stadium plans and pivoted to the Melreese Country Club, skeptics have piled on about potential hangups: the traffic, the loss of a city-owned golf course, the last-minute proposal that could hand the Mas brothers…
Alleged Gunman in XXXTentacion Murder Arrested
Michael Boatwright, a 22-year-old Broward resident, was arrested on July 5 on marijuana possession and probation-violation charges. Boatwright has been sitting inside the Broward County Jail ever since — and it now looks like he might wind up staying there for quite a while, since he was charged this morning…
How a South Florida Native Helped Michelle McNamara Chase the Golden State Killer
Paul Haynes first heard of the murderer now known as the Golden State Killer through a television special. It was sometime around 2008, and there was little public awareness of the man who had terrorized California for over a decade beginning in 1976, ultimately committing at least 12 murders and 50…
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Homeless South Beach Artist With No Arms Stabbed a Tourist, Police Say
A homeless man with no arms, Jonathan Crenshaw has spent years in South Beach painting colorful canvases using his feet while tourists circle and gawk at the work.
Wall Street Firm Makes Money From South Florida ICE Detention Center Accused of Abuse
The Glades County Detention Center, which sits less than two hours northwest of Miami, is a county jail that also holds detainees for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The facility is also allegedly a hot spot of abuse and malfeasance. Back in 2015, the Glades County Sheriff’s…
Why Is Miami Beach Adding Tons of New Sand to Its Beaches During Sea Turtle Season?
This week, crews began work on an ambitious new beach renourishment project in Miami Beach, where Hurricane Irma washed away much of the shoreline. The $1.5 million emergency project, which involves trucking in 32,000 tons of sand from Central Florida, won’t be done until at least November. But…
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Beckham’s New Economic Projections for His Stadium Are Probably Nonsense
For the last 24 hours, Miami officials have been furiously pushing the latest pitch from David Beckham and financier Jorge Mas for a new soccer stadium at Melreese County Club, largely by insisting the deal would pour millions into city coffers. City Manager Emilio Gonzalez repeatedly estimated that…
Sorry, the Melreese Country Club Is Not a “Green Space” or a Park
Technically, Melreese Golf Course is a green space. In satellite views of Miami, it is a large space that is green. The grass and smattering of trees around the links are, in fact, green. This is undeniable. But is Melreese a “green space,” as claimed by some opponents of David…
Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo Speaking at Nauseating “Thought-Leader” Festival
Y’all ready for two full days of civility? Who’s eager to reach across the aisle to catch some T-shirts? Everybody ready to get those lighters waving for Democratic fundraiser and billboard tycoon Tom Steyer? Prepared to watch Libertarian tax-extremist Grover Norquist shatter a beer bottle and cut his chest open onstage…
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One of Florida’s Only Female Python Hunters Risks It All for the Everglades
Donna Kalil steers her forest-green 1998 Ford Expedition down a narrow path through the vast expanse of the Everglades. Leaning far outside the open window, she scans the tall grasses. On the roof, her best friend, Renee Yousefi, perches on a brightly lit platform modeled after a tuna tower and…
ICE Pays Aviation Firm Thousands to Fly Cuban Deportees From Miami to Havana
Despite the fact that Donald Trump came to Miami on the campaign trail and promised to be a friend to Miami’s exilio community in Little Havana, deportations to Cuba spiked after he took office. As of December 9, 2017, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was holding 1,686 Cuban nationals in detention and had…
Boca’s Private-Prison Giant GEO Group Gets More Money From ICE Than Any Other Company
The Trump era has been horrible for many of us, but few have suffered more than immigrants and those seeking asylum from oppressive regimes. But Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown has been fantastic for South Florida’s massive private-prison corporation, Boca Raton’s GEO Group. According to a breakdown of current ICE contracts…
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Everything You Need to Know About David Beckham’s Latest $1 Billion Stadium Pitch
If it feels like you’ve already spent a full college education watching David Beckham and his partners flail around for a place to build a soccer stadium, you are not hallucinating. Miami is now living through Year Five of Beck’s never-ending Major League Soccer drama. This season promises a new…